GnuCash quick start

[Liz]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:08:41 +0100
Ed Willink <ed at willink.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm an Open Source developer, so I naturally looked for an Open
> Source accounting tool and found GnuCash. Thank you for providing it.
> 
> For the most part I found it did what I needed, but you failed my
> quick start test; demonstrating to the user within 5 minutes,
> preferably within 1 minute that the newly installed software does
> something worth taking more time to exploit.
> 
> I obviously didn't want to read-the-manual or follow a mega/paid 
> tutorial. What defeated me when I pursued a trial-and-error approach
> was that Create-Transaction is so important that it is built-in and
> so has no menu entry. Even though I got past the "New-Project" hurdle
> quite quickly, I couldn't create any transactions. Eventually a 15
> minute YouTube video showed me the missing trick.
> 
> You could solve this very easily by ensuring that a Welcome-screen / 
> first-Hint-of-the-day enables a very simple example set of accounts
> to be created so that an up and running system is ready to play with
> almost instantly. You might even provide a short list of challenges,
> guiding the user through the most important "Add-Transaction", Jump,
> Duplicate, BalanceSheet etc facilities. Perhaps New->Example could
> have more than one canned example to play with.
> 
>      Regards
> 
>          Ed Willink


Thanks for your ideas, Ed.
Could you put this on the bugtracker as an enhancement?

Liz