Categorisation of transactions

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:41:43AM +1100, David Ryder wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 08:02 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:47:29PM +0100, Zdenek Muzik wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I am looking for a way to categorise transactions in GNUCash and cannot 
> > > find anything on the topic in the documentation.
> > 
> > I think you are looking for the equivalent of what Quicken calls
> > "classes". Arbitrary tags attached to txns that are completely
> > independent of the chart of accounts. No such feature exists in
> > gnucash, though it has been talked about several times. 
> > 
> "though it has been talked about several times"
> Please, please don't go down that path ... I, for one, like gnucash
> because it doesn't and that is why I understand it. I never grasped the
> other methods and nearly went crazy.

I, for one, have no interest in doing it.

I was merely pointing out that people have discussed it in the past. I
don't think you have anything to fear.

A
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