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[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Dorel Ciornei <dorelciornei at yahoo.com> writes:

> Some accounting software (for ex QB) allow to create a "Class".As such I had used Expense accounts to record Gas, Maintenance, Insurance, etc, but assign each transaction to the corresponding "class", for ex: Altima, Escort, Passat, etc. Then you could easily run a report for the specific class of interest and see all the transactions for that car only.
> Can GNU Cash use such "Classes"? I briefly looked but I didn't see any way to assign any transaction to a special group.Have I missed that functionality?

No, unfortunately GnuCash does not have this functionality (we call it
"Tags", by the way).  It is, however, probably the most requested
feature.

Any enterprising developer who wants to jump in the deep end is welcome
to attempt to work on it!

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-derek
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