Unable to enter new account heirarchy setup

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Mar 2 07:07:58 EST 2010


On Tuesday 2 March 2010, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that it be made more clear to Newbies that the
> initial set of accounts aren't actually carved in stone, but are
> actually quite quick and easy to revise.
> 
> The first time I tried to use GnuCash for my business, I didn't get a
> satisfying set of accounts, so I put off using GnuCash for well over a
> year while I worked out the precise set of accounts I was going to
> need, so I could set them up that way when the initial account druid
> ran.
> 
> Imagine my embarrassment when I discovered that I could have set up
> any random set of accounts, then edited the account tree to be just
> what I wanted in less than an hour.
> 
> I don't think putting this in the documentation would help.  It needs
> to be made more explicit in the initial account druid.
> 
> Don Quixote
> 
That's a fair suggestion. A clean design proposal - or better yet: a patch - 
in bugzilla for this request would improve the chances of this getting 
implemented. Suggestions like this on the mailing list tend to get lost.

Geert


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