Inter-account subgroupings

[Arthur Dyck]

I see what you are trying to do now.  Good luck!

Arthur

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 18:26 -0400, Backsolve wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Arthur Dyck wrote:
> 
> > Can't you just set up accounts like Auto:Fuel:Daily,
> > Auto:Fuel:2006_Vacation_Expenses, Auto:Fuel:Mary, Auto:Fuel:George? You
> > can then set the number of levels in your report to get as much
> > information as you need.
> 
> 
> Well, you could try, but you'd end up with a couple problems:
> 
> (1)  You'd just have a ton of accounts.  So, say person X had a 
> transaction on vacation Y; you would then need a set of accounts such as:
> 
>  	Auto:Fuel:VacationY:PersonX
>  	Auto:Fuel:VacationY:PersonA
>  	etc.
> 
> (2)  which leads to the second problem: the overlays are not explicitly 
> hierarchical.  Say I had an expense associated with PersonX but not 
> VacationY.  I'd then have to have a PersonX account associated with every 
> reasonable level of the account hierarchy, which doesn't seem like a 
> practicable solution.
> 
> 
> What I was really thinking about was just some sort of tag associated with 
> the transaction on which I could filter reports.
> 
> It sounds like I might be able to co-opt some other text field(s) for this 
> purpose, but it would be something of a hack job to do so,
> 
> 
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