Family usage of gnucash

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

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