Multiple account names

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 11/9/2016 4:42 AM, Maf. King wrote:

> I say more-or-less in my first paragraph, because some of the options 
> and saved reports settings work on a per-user basis, not on a per-file 
> basis. Just be aware, that's all, that saved reports might not make 
> sense if run on the "wrong" set of books, and financial year is not 
> settable per-file, for example. GC will re-open the most recently used 
> accounts file by default, if you are on a Mac, that is something else 
> to look out for, as clicking-to-open a datafile on the Mac has no 
> effect - not the case on Linux (or Windows AFAIK), where clicking a 
> datafile will open it, ready for use.
  The work around (for the "per user" settings) if you must use 
different settings for the different orgs is to create a "user" login 
for each that does.

  This would also deal with the "open what file" issue on Macs << also 
supplies the password protection some have asked for -- this user 
account JUST for running gnucash for a specific set of books.

Michael D Novack