Family usage of gnucash
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Wed Dec 9 14:28:39 EST 2009
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Валерий Булаш <valery.bulash at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > gnucash is not convenient for family usage.
> > Family from my point of view is a little community where ...:
> >
> > 1. ... some people got separate salaries and other incomes.
> > 2. ... all / most people can have common wallet - i.e. cash for food.
> > 3. ... some people can have own wallets - kid for ice cream, wife for
> > make-up, husband for weapons and so on. I guess such wallets are transparent
> > for others, but it is not evident and not obvious.
> > 4. ... every person can perform exact / similar financial operation.
> >
> > I see that implementation of multi-user access to gnucash data is not a
> > family issue in general.
> > How it is implemented in gnucash 2.2.9 (correct me where I'm wrong):
>
> GnuCash is not multi-user. You cannot have multiple people entering
> data in simultaneously.
>
> > No number... Term "person" (not just "user of program"!) doesn't exist at
> > all. I see it is root cause of all problems.
> >
> > 1. Implemented with tricks. I can write in account name "Mary's income"
> > or "Joe's salary", but it is not applicable for sorting / filtering /
> > reporting.
> > 2. Fully implemented where ALL persons want to share money. Not
> > implemented where SOME persons want to share money.
> > 3. Not implemented at all. Full multi-user access with exact rights to
> > accounts and some rules of account visibility for others could help here.
> > Simpler way - every operation entered on personal account will record
> > account's owner name / code.
> > 4. Not implemented at all. Transation must include person's name / code
> > or "all" as mark of transation owner / performer.
>
> You're right, none of this is implemented. Could you do this with Quicken?
It does seem that 1. and 2. work as is, but 3. and 4. not.
- hendrik
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