Cross-reporting ?

[John Altstadt]

Hi Thiers,

I asked about this a while ago and had a couple of excellent responses. 
Check back in the list archives.

Some of the suggestions included creating separate accounts for John and 
Mary under the appropriate accounts, or put the class information in 
descriptions, or actions. Unfortunately, none of the suggestions given 
at the time really worked for me.

What I finally settled on was to re-use the "Num" field, since I rarely 
write cheques. The Num field is visible in all account views and it is 
easy to select in the Find dialog.

It is quite easy to give all the options a try with some dummy 
information. After trying out several methods over a few days, I 
abandoned Quicken.

John

Thiers Botelho wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've been thinking of using GnuCash to (re)start controlling my home 
>expenses. I'm a former user of Quicken 2000, which I have not used it in 
>the last 2 yrs or so. For this reason I'm not quite sure on the 
>terminology, but there is a particular item which is important for me ; I 
>could do it in Quicken, and I'd be glad if someone could tell me if 
>GnuCash will do something similar  - preferably before I start studying 
>the documentation. It goes like :
>
>In Quicken, I could record transactions within particular categories (?) 
>like "Dining Expenses" and "Medicine", for instance ; PLUS when entering 
>each transaction I could also add another qualifier (class ?) such as 
>"John" and "Mary". 
>
>Therefore, when producing reports, I could have all the cross-reporting 
>options, like "Dining Expenses for Everybody", "All Expenses for Mary", or 
>"Medicine for John".
>
>Does GnuCash provide a practical means to achieve this flexibility ? If 
>so, what structures and options I should look for in the docs ?
>
>Thanx all in advance.
>
>Thiers
>
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