gnucash-htdocs beta: Add feature block for 4.0 release.
John Ralls
jralls at code.gnucash.org
Thu Jun 25 18:40:15 EDT 2020
Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/f917db4c (commit)
from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/5af9ba33 (commit)
commit f917db4c8f0a46952915af65d31b1adafc78fb81
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date: Thu Jun 25 15:40:08 2020 -0700
Add feature block for 4.0 release.
diff --git a/images/4.0-release/gnucash-cli.png b/images/4.0-release/gnucash-cli.png
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diff --git a/images/4.0-release/trans-assoc.png b/images/4.0-release/trans-assoc.png
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diff --git a/index.phtml b/index.phtml
index 33ef739..aa8a7ba 100644
--- a/index.phtml
+++ b/index.phtml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
<li><?php echo T_("Financial Calculations"); ?></li>
</ul>
<a href="<?=$home?>/features.phtml"><?php echo T_("<b>Discover more...</b>");?></a>
+ <?php include("new_features-4.0.phtml"); ?>
</div> <!-- mainfeature -->
<!-- Android app info
diff --git a/new_features-4.0.phtml b/new_features-4.0.phtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c57da6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/new_features-4.0.phtml
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+<?php include("lang.php"); ?>
+<h1><?php echo T_("What's New in GnuCash 4.0");?></h1>
+
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Graphic User Interface");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <div class=center>
+ <img class="featureimage"
+ src="<?=$top_dir?>/images/4.0-release/trans-assoc.png"
+ alt="[Transaaction Association Dialog]"/>
+ </div>
+ <p class="justify">
+ <ul>
+ <li><p><?php echo T_("When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load account templates from locales other than the one set for the user interface. (Bug 797472)");?></p>
+ <p><?php echo T_("On the <b>Choose Accounts to Create</b> page there are two drop-downs above the <b>Account Types</b> selector, one for language and one for country, the choices in the latter depending on the former. The default is the current locale but they may be used to select account templates from any locale.");?></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("A new <B>Transaction Association</B> dialog, available from the <B>Update Association for Transaction</B> menu item that has replaced the two association items in 3.x, allows setting, changing, and deleting associations.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("A symbol (paperclip for files, chain links for URLS) is now displayed in the Associations column (visible in double-line mode) in the register in place of the letters when a transaction has an association. This doesn't work on MacOS.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("When deleting accounts the destination accounts of moved splits will be checked to ensure that they have the same commodity as the source account. If they don't you'll get a warning and the opportunity to pick another account or to carry on regardless.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("New type-ahead search is added to sequential search when selecting an account or an Action in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow keys to select the account that you want.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a posting date. (Bug 782455)");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486)");?></li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Business Functions");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Business Document Column Widths");?>
+ <p><?php echo T_("Entry column widths in Invoices, Bills, and Employee Vouchers may now be saved as defaults for each type of document.");?></p>
+ <p><?php echo T_("Two menu items are added to the View menu when a Bill, Invoice, or Voucher tab has focus:");?>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("<guimenuitem>Use as Default Layout for Vendor Documents</guimenuitem>");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Reset Default Layout for Vendor Documents");?></li>
+ </ul><?php echo T_("Vendor Documents is for Bills and is replaced by Customer or Employee Documents for Invoices or Vouchers respectively.");?>
+ </p>
+ <p><?php echo T_("The first saves the current document's column widths and makes them the default for all documents in the same type. The second menu item removes the customization and documents of that type will therafter use the computed default widths.");?></p>
+ </li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Associations may now be added to invoices. The actual association when present is added as a link button which is shown below the notes.");?> </li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("The Customer, Vendor, and Employee overviews have a process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605).");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Importing Transactions");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new FinTS protocols for the European Payment Services Directive (PSD2).");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("The OFX file importer can now import more than one file at a time.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("OFX imports having balance information will now offer to immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the reconcile info.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("The import transaction matcher window column headings are changed from R to C and from U+R to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't reconcile them. (Bug 797338)");?></li>
+ <li<?php echo T_(">Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the commodity.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612)");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Reports");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("A new report menu supbmenu <B>Multicolumn</B> contains the old custom-multicolumn report and a new <B>Dashboard</B> report containing Account reports for expenses and income, an income-expense chart, and an account summary.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Support for UK VAT and Australian GST have been added to the Income-GST report. The report's options are changed from source accounts to source sales and purchase accounts to permit proper reporting of capital purchases. <B>N.B.</B> This is incompatible with previous versions of the report and will require regenerating saved configurations.");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Budgets");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Optionally include the account code option in budget view.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180)");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree View. (Bug 797489).");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Compatibility");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash 2.4.x.");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Shell Command for Scripting");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <div class="center">
+ <img class="featureimage" src="<?=$top_dir?>/images/4.0-release/gnucash-cli.png" alt="Command-Line" />
+ </div>
+ <p class="justify"><?php echo T_("A new separate executable, <kbd>gnucash-cli</kbd> (<kbd>gnucash-cli.exe</kbd> on Microsoft Windows) for doing command-line things like updating the prices in your book. <kbd>gnucash-cli</kbd> gains the ability to run reports from the command line. Specify reports to run by name or guid. It also provides an export format and an output file name without which it will output the report to stdout.");?>
+ <ul>
+ <li><code>gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid] datafile.gnucash</code></li>
+ <li><code>gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid] --output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash</code></li>
+ <li><code>gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid] --output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash</code></li>
+ </ul></p>
+ <p class="justify"><kbd>gnucash-cli --help</kbd> <?php echo T_("will display a screen listing all of the available commands and their options.");?></p>
+ <p><?php echo T_("The GUI program, <kbd>gnucash</kbd>, still responds to the options it always has, though <kbd>--get-price-quotes</kbd> is deprecated in favor of <kbd>gnucash-cli --quotes get</kbd>.");?></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="featurecontainer">
+ <div class="featureborder">
+ <h2 class="featuretitle"><?php echo T_("Customization and Scripting");?></h2>
+ </div>
+ <ul>
+ <li><?php echo T_("The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it.");?></li>
+ <li><?php echo T_("Python bindings are now localized and their strings available for translation.");?></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
Summary of changes:
images/4.0-release/gnucash-cli.png | Bin 0 -> 12677 bytes
images/4.0-release/trans-assoc.png | Bin 0 -> 18338 bytes
index.phtml | 1 +
new_features-4.0.phtml | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 images/4.0-release/gnucash-cli.png
create mode 100644 images/4.0-release/trans-assoc.png
create mode 100644 new_features-4.0.phtml
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