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.