UK company VAT account structure, updated

[Vincent V]

That's spooky, it all works now!

I already had a en_GB directory but when I moved the last version of my 
xea file into it the druid found it. Perhaps there was a bug in my 
structure that the second copy fixed! So I have sent the file off to 
gnucash-patches.

But then I noticed that not all the locale directories had hyphenated 
names, there was a C and a da and an sk. So I tried renaming the en_GB 
directory to GB. Now the druid displayed all the basic account 
structures that I had seen the first time that I had run GNUcash. So C 
must be Common accounts and not Canada as I had mistakenly thought (that 
would be en_CA of course). But that means that anyone who has a locale 
with an associated directory will only ever see the contents of that 
directory and not the common ones. So a new user with an en_GB locale 
will only ever see my VAT accounts - which is probably not what most 
users want! Surely the druid should show both the common and locale 
directory of the user?

Vince



Derek Atkins wrote:

>>The trouble is that I can't test it; when I start the 'new file' druid
>>it doesn't show any accounts files at all - just a blank selection. If
>>I try to load any xea file manually - using file:open - I get an error
>>message saying that the file was created usng a later version of
>>gnucash than mine (even the file I just created) and I should
>>upgrade. Actually I suppose it has a point, the xml code does clearly
>>say <gnc:account version="2.0.0"> adnI'm running 1.8.1
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>Yea, you need to add the file to accounts/<locale>/ and get it to install
>properly (or you can just hand-install it into the runtime tree).  I think
>it goes into <prefix>/share/accounts/<locale>/
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>-derek
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