question

[Wm]

Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:17:28 <sjmsi8yag3r.fsf at securerf.ihtfp.org>  Derek 
Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>

>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.

Ummm, it isn't that hard to "tag" (I don't call them "Tags", by the way) 
in gnc if you know how to use splits

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


A lot of reporting can be done with existing reports (any that use the 
Accounts / Filter By should work fine) and I'm not developing much that 
isn't plain SQL

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Wm...