Bill splits don't post to expense acct with their own date

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 6 10:00:54 EST 2012


Shane Litherland <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> writes:

> Thanks Derek, actually your long answer (i.e. regarding
> meta-transactions) puts it really clearly. My 'workarounds' of separate
> entries were then the better (correct) approach to achieve my outcome in
> the first place it seems.
>
> A rather left-field thought, but do you reckon there is more 'metadata'
> currently associated with Invoices and Bills than the user/GNUcash can
> make use of? As in, it's been designed, so far, to collect enough info
> to do many more things but that depends on what ideas are implemented
> along the way?

Yes, it collects more data than is currently used.

> Just ask that because I'm a little familiar with the approach that it's
> easier to collect lots of data at the start and decide later to use it,
> than collect less at the start, only to decide later you want more
> data... The former, if that's how this bit of GNUcash is, means new
> ideas can often be implemented with less major changes?
>
> regards,
> shane.

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-derek

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