Cross-reporting ?

[Linas Vepstas]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:58:32PM -0400, CL Gilbert was heard to remark:
> 
> I too use that feature on Quicken 2002 right now.  I am transitioning to
> gnucash.  I think it would be nice to maybe have multiple categories for
> one transaction.  I dont mean split either.
>
> |>unfortunately not really.. You could use the description or action
> |>fields in the transaction for this..  But no, gnucash does not have
> |>the concept of a "class".  Note that category directly maps to
> |>"account".  but there is no direct mapping for "class".
> |>

FYI, that was the original intent of the 'action' field.  It was 
supposed to be a user-defined enumerated list.  Unlike the free-text
fields in memo, descriptin, it was supposed to have a different GUI,
a multiple-choice, pick-from-a-list menu GUI.  The reports were supposed
to be keyed off this field. 

Thus, it allowed the user to define a set of 'categories' that were
meaningful to that user, and yet be far, far more limited in scope
than the general free-text memo field.  The 'magic' was to tie
things together with the reports.

I'm, thinking that it might be a good 'beginner' project for someone
interested in learning the guts of GnuCash.  Its a kind-of cleanup
the gui here, enhance a report there type of thing; thhe core
infrastructure is in place and works, but various areas need to be 
bent and sawed and polished.

A fancy version of this would be to have a different set of actions,
depending on the account type.  Tis would be more, new, work.

--linas


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