Opening the right set of accounts

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Sun Jun 15 11:14:31 EDT 2008


Manfred Jung wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Gnu Cash is a great help! Thanks to all those who mad it a reality.
> 
> I have more than one set of accounts. (Books of different entities 
> [Company, organisation, Private books]
> 
> Whenever I open GnuCash ist opens the last set of accounts, which is 
> usually the wrong one. So I have to open another set of accounts and go 
> through all the steps (Ctrl-o, navigate, close the loaded book, etc).
> 
> Is there a way to have an icon with each set of accounts and then just 
> open the right one?
> 
> I use GnuCash 2.2.4 on WinXP and Kubuntu 7.4

Gnucash accepts a file name on the command line.  I haven't tried this
on windows, but you should be able to create a shortcut for each set of
books, and where you specify the command, add the correct file name to
the end of the command line.

Phil



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