Multiple businesses ?

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:08:19 -0500 stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com wrote:

> 
> On 2/22/2015 7:26 AM, Russell wrote:
> > Can I run separate (multiple) businesses with GnuCash ?
> > -  or is GnuCash limited to one business ?
> >
> > I have two separate businesses that I run independently of each other
> >
> > Quickbooks PRO (2000 edition) ... Inuit? ... I could manage any number 
> > of businesses
> >
> > Thank you
> > -  my first "post" with GnuCash :)
> 
> The program can manage any number of books. Each of those of course 
> would be a separate file and each could even be in a separate directory 
> (file folder).
> 
> If you are using gnucash for multiple sets of books, likely to be 
> unpredictable which set being opened relative to which was last opened. 
> So you will probably want to use the "nofile" option so gnucash will not 
> assume that you want the last set of books you had open << when you use 
> "nofile" gnucash comes up without opening any books and you then choose 
> which one you ant to open >>

It is also possible (at least with Linux) to put the name of the file you want 
on the command line.  I don't know if this is possible with either MacOSX or 
MS-Windows, but with Linux it should be possible to hand-craft Desktop files 
to open partitular data files (set of books).

I also don't know if it is possible to associate a GnuCash data file with 
GnuCash, so that double clicking / right click=>Open With will fire up GnuCash 
with that data file.

(I use Linux, but don't use a desktop manager -- instead I have a home-grown 
session manager with a menu hack to open GnuCash with a specific GnuCash data 
file.)

> 
> Michael
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