RES: Project cost accounting.

[David T.]

Please keep your replies on the list.

There have been a number of discussions over the years, and I believe that there is something about it on Uservoice. ASs to whether there is a spec written, I doubt that something formal has been drawn up, but I am usually wrong when I make such assertions.

I feel it necessary to take up your aside regarding getting data directly from a database query. Please note that while Gnucash offers a database-based storage option, the data contained in that structure is not well-formed. I believe that the terminology that the experts use is to say that the data structures are largely bound up in the program logic. This means that extracting data from the database is not necessarily as straightforward as many database geeks expect. 


David



________________________________
 From: linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: RES: Project cost accounting.
 
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:55 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Andre--
>
> I suspect that linuxGuy is looking for some sort of feature similar to
> Quicken's Classes, which allow a user to insert an additional organizing
> data element into a transaction, and report on that.
>
> @LinuxGuy: if that is what you are looking for, you will have to accept the
> fact that Gnucash doesn't offer anything like Quicken classes. It is one of
> the most-requested features that new users of Gnucash seek, but to this
> date, no one has stepped up to program the feature in.
>
> Your only option is to set up the separate accounts structures in the way
> that you described.

I've developed software.   Has a spec been written for this functionality ?

I don't care if there are any reports to back things up at this point.
  I'll get the data from a direct database query.

What would it take to add the ability for users to input classes for
their transactions ?

I have never used Quicken, so I don't know what their implementation looks like.