The Gnucash database?

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:51, blfs wrote:
>
> I have played around with this program a bit and I can
> see that there is a lot of cleverness and work put into
> this program.
>
> I havent quite figured it out though.  Usually in these types
> of programs one is faced with a menu of invoicing,
> purchasing, writing checks and so forth.

It's called the *menu*. File, Edit, Tools, . . . 

To print a cheque, it needs to be a transaction first - then print the 
transaction. You don't write a real cheque until there is a reason to write 
it - something to purchase, a transaction to be made. The transaction 
determines what goes on the cheque. i.e. the cheque is a SUB-MENU of the 
transaction.

Secondly, most people do not write enough cheques to fill a page all at one 
time - we write one cheque for one transaction and use other methods of 
payment / credit for other transactions.

>   Anyway, being completely ignorant of this program I am in no position to
> make any judgements about it.

PLEASE USE GnuCash before criticising it!! Get your bank statement and enter a 
month's data by hand. Understand the interface, get some cheques printed 
(after the event, just as a demo) and view some reports.

> It would certainly be more useful to me if I could input
> data into it.  

You have GnuCash, you have a keyboard, you presumably have some kind of bank 
account. Go ahead, type one month's data in and try it. It's not that hard. 
It would have taken a LOT less time than writing all these emails.
:-)

> It seems pretty clear to me anyway that this 
> program would also be more useful in general if it could interact with
> gnumeric.

But the data from gnumeric wouldn't be suitable for tax returns, there will 
always be some need for verification. 

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Neil Williams
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