differentiate transactions in 'projects'

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

tereque <tereque at gmail.com> writes:

> hi,
>
> here is another one....
>
> all of my transactions should be linked to a project they are related
> to. Meaning we have a production for customer XYZ and the project has
> a number (let's say 8170). In the end I would like to have an overview
> of which payments had been moved for this project (incoming payments
> by customer, expenses, etc).
>
> I wonder how I can do this best. I do not really want to set up a tree
> of accounts for each project as I still want to keep my general
> structure of expense accounts('Express costs', 'manufacturing' for
> example). Also I would not know how I could gather 'Income' and
> Expense'
>
> How would I do that best? first thing that comes to mind is using the
> number' column in each account. Then I could make a search of this and
> have a report of all related transactions. But Maybe there is a better
> way to do this? A 'Job' seems only to gather several Invoices but can
> not applied to any transaction right?
> Alo I have not found a way to find all transaction matching a 'number'
> as it seems not workable to include all account in one search
> operation.

Unfortunately there is not a good way to do this.  The best way
currently would be to use a text tag in the Transaction Notes or
potentially the Action field.  Unfortunately the reports wont easily
collate for you.

Ideally GnuCash would have a "Tag" feature.

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-derek

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