Entering Preexisting Shares

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

--- On Wed, 5/13/09, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Entering Preexisting Shares
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Norman Yeh" <normyeh at gmail.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 6:49 AM
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> 
> > Derek--
> >
> > A couple of points:
> >
> > 1) the chart of accounts won't show accounts that the
> user has set to hidden (unless the view options are set to
> include them), and
> 
> So?
> 
> It's pretty stupid to hide an account with value in
> it.  And it's
> pretty challenging to open an account that's hidden.

I was mainly wanting the OP to know there are times when an account might NOT show up in the COA. That's all.

> 
> > 2) the little arrow off on the right is fabulous, but
> not all that obvious, and I don't see any reference to this
> little arrow's existence or purpose in the documentation.
> Perhaps the documentation at 4.2.4 could get a new second
> paragraph:
> 
> Well, the documentation needs some love.  Care to put
> in some time
> to work on it before the 2.4 release?
> 
> > "The columns shown for each account in the Account
> Tree can be customized to suit your needs. The arrow icon on
> the far right of the Account Tree window displays a drop
> down list of column options. Click on a column description
> to add it to the Account Tree window." 
> 
> Sounds good.  Care to send in an actual documentation
> patch for this?

Submitted as Bug 582547.

David

> 
> > HTH,
> > David
> 
> -derek
> 
> > --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> >> Subject: Re: Entering Preexisting Shares
> >> To: "Norman Yeh" <normyeh at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 6:47 AM
> >> Hi,
> >> Quoting Norman Yeh <normyeh at gmail.com>:
> >> 
> >> > Hi Derek,
> >> >
> >> > 1. is the Charts of Accounts page the page
> that shows
> >> all the 
> >> > accounts I created?
> >> 
> >> Yes
> >> 
> >> > 2. How do I add a column to the Accounts page
> to show
> >> the current 
> >> > value of the Stock accounts?
> >> 
> >> See that arrow on the right hand side of the
> column
> >> headings?  Click
> >> on it.
> >> 
> >> > Thanks!