Reports chapter in guide
Geert Janssens
geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon Feb 22 14:36:36 EST 2016
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On Monday 22 February 2016 18:26:03 Pedro Albuquerque wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About the merge, it's just an idea, thank you for your comment, I'll
> think about that.
>
There has been another discussion recently [1] about merging the two documents together.
Those involved in the discussion roughly came to the conclusion it would be good to merge
both documents together. However the merged document would contain both a part for context
help (which is currently in the help manual) and a part for concepts and for tutorials.
So essentially the separate topics of both current documents would remain, just put together in
one document.
The main motivation to merge would be to avoid duplication of content. Current documents
have quite some overlap in information although they are consulted in different contexts. In
one document it would be easier to keep the context menu help more concise and link from
there to related tutorials and concepts somewhere else in the document. Technically this would
also be possible with two independent documents, but much harder to accomplish for all
document formats we support. In one document, we can add links between topics in all
document formats (from docbook sources to pdf, mobi, epub...).
> About the other issue, like I said, there was a previous discussion
> about the use of GC in certain countries. It started, if I'm not
> mistaken, with a Swedish user and their tax authority imposing the
> existence of a non editable file. Here most business have to be online
> with the tax authority's servers.
> Both these are, to say the least, very restrictive to an official use
> of GC.
I agree with you that due to legal restrictions gnucash can't be used for business purposes in all
countries. That's however not sufficient reason to separate the business documentation out into
a separate document.
Many people are not using credit cards. Should that mean the credit card documentation should
be separated out as well ? How about financial markets tracking (stocks, bonds, shares,...). Only
a subset of users use that.
I think it can easily remain in one single document. If some user is not using business features,
he can just skip these chapters while reading.
Regards,
Geert
[1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2015-August/038934.html
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