when you're used to quicken's /classes

Bill Gribble grib@linuxdevel.com
03 Oct 2001 11:22:29 -0500


On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 10:25, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> The intent was to handle this with the 'action' field (the second or
> third field from the left in the register).  The idea was to be able to 
> able to select one or more 'actions' for a split, as well as define your
> own (in addition to the small set of predefined defaults).   However, 
> this functionality is currently crippled; also, there are no reports 
> that allow you to get summaries based on the value of the action field.
> (although you can query for a list of transations with s specific set
> action.)
> 
> Fully enabling a correctly functioning 'action' field in gnucash 
> is probably one of the simpler unfinished work items ... we need someone
> to step up to the plate on this ..

It had always been my understanding that we would use slots in the KVP
structure of the transaction for class-like functionality.  That way,
you could have multiple 'class' tags associated with a transaction if
necessary.  

The underlying infrstructure is all there, we just never added a GUI to
allow you to explicitly set the 'class' tags or, as Linas points out,
reports that use them. 

b.g.