r23637 - gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C - Update Preferences section of the Help for the 2.6 release.
Cristian Marchi
cmarchi at code.gnucash.org
Sat Dec 28 06:43:04 EST 2013
Author: cmarchi
Date: 2013-12-28 06:43:03 -0500 (Sat, 28 Dec 2013)
New Revision: 23637
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/23637
Modified:
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/Help_ch_Customize.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_AccntPeriod.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Accnts.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Business.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_DateTime.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_General.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_OnlineBanking.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Printing.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Register.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_RegisterDefaults.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Reports.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Sched.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Pref_Windows.png
gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/figures/Help_Report_Screen.png
Log:
Update Preferences section of the Help for the 2.6 release.
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/Help_ch_Customize.xml
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--- gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/Help_ch_Customize.xml 2013-12-27 20:15:36 UTC (rev 23636)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C/Help_ch_Customize.xml 2013-12-28 11:43:03 UTC (rev 23637)
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Reverse Balanced accounts</guilabel> — This option
lets you determine whether account balances will display as positive
- or negative numbers:
+ or negative numbers:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Income & Expense</guilabel> assigns a
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
<para><guilabel>None</guilabel> shows all credit balances as
negative and all debit balances as positive.</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist></para>
+ </itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -242,7 +242,24 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Account Color</guilabel> — This option
+ lets you manage the display of the account color set in the
+ <guilabel>Edit Account</guilabel> window:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show the Account Colors as background</guilabel> — show the
+ accounts color as account name background in the Accounts Page.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show the Account Colors on tabs</guilabel> — show the accounts
+ color as background in the account register tabs.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="prefs-biz">
@@ -269,11 +286,15 @@
</figure>
<itemizedlist>
-
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>General</guilabel></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Enable extra buttons</guilabel> — If checked,
+ extra toolbar buttons for common business functions are shown.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Open in new window</guilabel> — If checked, each
invoice will be opened in its own top level window. If clear, the
invoice will be opened in the current window.</para>
@@ -291,10 +312,29 @@
<para><guilabel>Invoices</guilabel></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Report for printing:</guilabel> — Allows to select
+ the invoice report to be used for printing.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Tax Included</guilabel> — Whether tax are
included by default in entries on invoices. This setting is
inherited by new customers and vendors.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Auto pay on posting</guilabel> — If enabled, at post
+ time automatically attempt to pay customer documents with outstanding
+ pre-payments and counter documents.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Counter documents are documents with
+ opposite sign. For example for an invoice, customer credit notes and negative
+ invoices are considered counter documents.</para>
+
+ <para>The pre-payments and documents obviously
+ have to be against the same customer.</para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
@@ -317,6 +357,20 @@
included by default in entries on bills. This setting is inherited
by new customers and vendors.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Auto pay on posting</guilabel> — If enabled, at post
+ time automatically attempt to pay vendor documents with outstanding
+ pre-payments and counter documents.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Counter documents are documents with
+ opposite sign. For example for a bill, vendor credit notes and negative
+ bills are considered counter documents.</para>
+
+ <para>The pre-payments and documents obviously
+ have to be against the same vendor.</para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -364,10 +418,6 @@
The available choices are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Locale</guilabel> — Use the date format specified by the system locale.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para><guilabel>US</guilabel> — Use the date format common in the United States.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -382,8 +432,30 @@
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>ISO</guilabel> — Use the date format specified by the ISO-8601 standard.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Locale</guilabel> — Use the date format specified by the system locale.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Date completion</guilabel> — This option
+ lets you manage the case when a date is entered without a year:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>In the current calendar year</guilabel> (Default) — Dates will be completed so that
+ they are within the current calendar year.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>In a sliding 12-month window starting a configurable number of months before
+ the current month</guilabel> — Dates will be completed so that they are close to the current
+ date. You can enter the maximum number of months to go backwards in time when completing dates.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
@@ -513,6 +585,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Enable timout on "Save changes on closing" question</guilabel> —
+ If enabled, the <guilabel>Save changes on closing</guilabel> question will only wait a
+ limited number of seconds for an answer. If the user didn’t answer within that time,
+ the changes will be saved automatically and the question window closed.
+ You can sete the number of seconds in the <guilabel>Time to wait for answer</guilabel> field.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Retain log files</guilabel> — In this section you could set
your preferences about the log files using the provided radio buttons.</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -579,6 +659,25 @@
might want to turn off this option. Turning off the option gives you
less detail in the importer screens.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Default transaction status (overridden by the status given by the QIF file)</guilabel> —
+ In this section you could set the default status for imported transactions using the provided
+ self-explainingradio buttons:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Not cleared</guilabel> (Default)</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Cleared</guilabel></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Reconciled</guilabel></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
@@ -586,6 +685,20 @@
<para><guilabel>Generic Importer</guilabel></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Enable skip transaction action</guilabel> — Enable the SKIP
+ action in the transaction matcher. If enabled, a transaction whose best match’s score
+ is in the yellow zone (above the Auto-ADD threshold but below the Auto-CLEAR threshold)
+ will be skipped by default.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Enable update match action</guilabel> — Enable the UPDATE AND RECONCILE
+ action in the transaction matcher. If enabled, a transaction whose best match’s score is
+ above the Auto-CLEAR threshold and has a different date or amount than the matching existing
+ transaction will cause the existing transaction to be updated and cleared by default.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Use Bayesian matching</guilabel> — Use Bayesian
algorithms to match new transactions with existing accounts.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -621,17 +734,28 @@
transaction will be recognized as a match by
<application>&app;</application>.</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Automatically create new commodities</guilabel> — Enables the
+ automatic creation of new commodities if any unknown commodity is encountered during
+ import. If not enabled, the user will be asked what to do with each unknown commodity.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Online Banking</guilabel></para>
<note>
- <para>This section is showed only if <application>&app;</application> is compiled with
+ <para>This section is shown only if <application>&app;</application> is compiled with
Aqbanking and <acronym>HBCI</acronym> support.</para>
</note>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Close log window when finished</guilabel> — Close the log window
+ when the operation is completed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Remember PIN</guilabel> — Enable this option if you
want <application>&app;</application> to remember the PIN you
enter for online banking authentication.</para>
@@ -802,6 +926,7 @@
selected, <application>&app;</application> will draw a vertical line between the cells in
each row.</para>
</listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -888,7 +1013,6 @@
<para><guilabel>Number of transactions</guilabel> — How many
transactions to show in a register. Set to 0 to show all transactions.</para>
</listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -1005,13 +1129,13 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Create in advance, days</guilabel> — The default
+ <para><guilabel>Create in advance</guilabel> — The default
number of days in advance to create the registered scheduled
transactions.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Remind in advance, days</guilabel> — The default
+ <para><guilabel>Remind in advance</guilabel> — The default
number of days in advance to remind on new scheduled
transactions.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1056,36 +1180,6 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Toolbar style</guilabel></para>
- <para>You can choose from five different styles for the <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis>:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Use system default</guilabel> (default) — Use the system setting
- for displaying <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis> items.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Text below icons</guilabel> — Display <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis> items with the text label below the icon.
- Labels are shown for all items.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Priority text beside icons</guilabel> — Display <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis> items with the text label
- beside the icon. Labels are only shown for the most important items.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Icons only</guilabel> — Display <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis> items as icons only.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Text only</guilabel> — Display <emphasis>Toolbar</emphasis> items as text only.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para><guilabel>Tabs</guilabel></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -1101,7 +1195,14 @@
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Width:</guilabel> — The width of tab label
- expressed in characters.</para>
+ expressed in characters.
+ <note>
+ <para>If the text in the tab is longer than this value
+ (the test is approximate) then the tab label will have the middle cut
+ and replaced with an ellipsis.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
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