Quickfill Issues

[Daniel Trezub]

Have you ever used MS Money, Derek? If not, I'd suggest you to give it a
try. Seriously. I am really LOVING the entire Gnucash experience, but there
is room to improvement.

Look, I am not making fun with Gnucash or something, it just happens that
reports and graphs in gnucash are not as intuitive or easy or fast as the
ones in MS Money. And as I came from it, it's natural that I miss this ease
of use and generation of reports and graphs.

I am not saying that Gnucash does not have this feature. What I am saying is
that it's not as easy or complete as the competition.

You can get a pie chart from every item on every record in MS$. You get a
expenses report, for example. If you want a pie chart for this same expenses
report, it's just a click or two away from this very same screen. If you
want a bar graph for some sub-account, the same applies.

I didn't get a "Cash Flow Forecast" graph yet in Gnucash, for example.
Or a "Top Five Expenses Categories" report.
Or two pie charts, side by side, comparing the current and the last month,
for a given account and its sub-accounts.

I was planning on discussing this issues here next week or later, so I could
then fill in the enhancement requests. Thanks for putting this up earlier :)

Cheers!

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2009/9/10 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>

> Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > To me, using MS Money was becoming a pain, because I am using Linux as my
> > primary system, And I have WinXP installed as a virtual machine. So, to
> just
> > enter a simple transaction, I had to boot up Linux, but up the virtual
> Win
> > and then run MSMoney.
> > I do really miss some of its features, specially the graphs and reports,
> but
> > at least I am updating my finances records more often than when I was
> using
> > MSMoney.
> > The upper case issue? Does not hurt me at all. It's a matter of putting
> all
> > the goods and bads on the balance.
> >
> > Please, better report and graphs support, anybody? :)
>
> Details -- what's wrong with the reports and graphs that currently
> exist?  Have you filed bug reports (or enhancement requests) for the
> reports that truly do NOT exist?
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> -derek
>
> --
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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