Request: additional lists.

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 13 09:28:33 EDT 2011


David Prieto <frandavid100 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to accounting and taking an accounting course where we're
> being taught a proprietary solution. I have chosen to take the chance to
> practice using Gnucash, too, which has this far been pretty impressive for
> every task we've had to work on.
>
> There is a suggestion I'd like to make, though: When I try to find certain
> elements (customers, invoices, jobs, vendors, bills, employees and expenses)
> I only have two options: create a new one, or search an existing one.
>
> Why not offer *a list* of the existing elements in these categories so that
> the user can keep track of the whole list? Why not use the search as a
> filter, so that if it's left blank you get the whole list instead of not
> getting any results? Why not have that list as a tab (e.g. a customers tab),
> same as you have an accounts tab?
>
> I think that particular part of the program would be much easier to use that
> way.

When it was originally designed it was designed to scale, and I was
thinking about down the road having hundreds or thousands of entries in
the "list".  At that quantity having a list vs. a search is most
definitely the wrong thing.

The plan at the time was to have a search with a dynamic list based off
a partial input.

As this is the devel list, patches are always welcome!  I look forward
to seeing your implementation!  :-D

> Thanks for your attention,
>
> David Prieto.
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-derek

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