Predicting Future Minimum Balance

Dale Alspach alspach at math.okstate.edu
Thu Sep 14 14:20:22 EDT 2006


A crude approach would be to just clone the gnucash data file (and
ancillaries) under a new name, run the SX or other "what if" transactions on
the clone, do reports on the clone, save the report output if desired, and
then blow all of the cloned stuff away until the next "what if" session.

There could just be a "what if" menu choice which does all the cloning.
Maybe there could be a color change (border, backgrounds?) to visually show that the user is no
longer working  on the real file. When the user wants to end the "what if", 
he is asked what to save and then gnucash destroys the files from the 
clone or renames as directed by the user.


Dale Alspach




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