Budget Reporting Issues and some small philosophy

[Wm...]

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:37:30 
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David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote...

>Your initial reply successfully convinced me that, since I am not using 
>the budget reports myself, I should defer the documentation to someone 
>who does. Feel free to write up documentation regarding the budget 
>features, and how the specific reports are intended to be used. I have 
>neither the time nor the mental bandwidth to manage it.

Where do you (or anyone else) think the main bit of documentation work 
needs to be done?  Is it the Budgets themselves or the reports?  i.e. 
where do you get stuck?

If someone says "I don't understand this bit" I'm happy to help but I'm 
not a natural detailed-abstract-documenter and in the case of gnc 
Budgets (and gnc reports in general) I'm not sure describing Report 
Options is what is needed (or indeed generally useful in abstraction).

Time passes

I've been through

===
Tutorial & Concepts
   Managing Business Finances
     Budgets
===

and

===
Help Manual
   Windows & Menu Options Overview
     Budget Window
===

and I'm not seeing a lot wrong in the detail

*BUT*

it is just that these bits aren't joined up.

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I think the main issue is the joining up.  I don't know about other flox 
but when I want *gnc* help I generally head for Tutorial & Concepts 
before the Help Manual because that is where I have generally found what 
I need.

Perhaps the problem is that the Budget documentation is split between
===
Tutorial & Concepts
*and*
Help Manual
===

Proposal: merge all the Budget documentation
i.e. everything referring to Actions / Budget & Reports / Budget
under Tutorial & Concepts and make bare bones references in the Help 
Manual to the Tutorial & Concepts.

Motivation: gnc Budgets, such as they are, should be dealt with as a 
whole, we don't expect the reader to find out about Investments and 
related concepts and tools in more than one place, why should Budgets be 
different?

Needed: thoughts from seniors and anyone else that cares about 
effectively deleting a chunk from the Help Manual and moving it all to 
Tutorials & Concepts.

Possible side benefit: by ripping the existing Budget documentation out 
from everywhere and placing them firmly under
===
Tutorial & Concepts
   Managing Business Finances
===
a space is left for people to think about personal budgeting which is 
quite a different thing for most or many people these days.

Thoughts, please.

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Wm...