[GNC] Bills in Gnucash

Tue Apr 2 04:04:17 EDT 2019

The preference was added by Christian back in the 2.6 days. I'm not sure of 
the end goal of this feature but I believe it was indeed mostly meant to 
persistently add a few convenience buttons on the tool bar. I'm sure it 
doesn't manage the availability of the AR/AP accounts and it equally won't 
show or hide the Business releated menu options.

That may be an enhancement of its own at some point.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 2 april 2019 09:03:59 CEST schreef Derek Atkins:
> If this preference is added, it should also remove the A/R and A/P Account
> type choices!
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Mon, April 1, 2019 11:21 pm, David Carlson wrote:
> > Back in 2014 I used to think that going to Edit > Preferences > Business
> > and checking Enable Extra Buttons was about enabling business features,
> > but
> > I was told then that it is only about adding some un-named buttons on some
> > menus that were never documented.  I agree that there should be a feature
> > to turn off business features for those of us that don't use them, because
> > sometimes they cause grief if accidentally or ignorantly activated.
> > 
> > David Carlson
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> > 
> > adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >> Thanks David,
> >> 
> >> I was looking for that the other day and somehow glanced over it.
> >> Indeed,
> >> it is still there in 3.4. (about to install 3.5 shortly) I suppose,
> >> then,
> >> since preferences are user rather than book based that’s why the buttons
> >> were already there. I didn’t try to start GC from a fresh user
> >> perspective.
> >> I’d have to try an old copy of 2.6, but I seem to recall this being
> >> labeled
> >> as ‘enable business features’ (which also added the special accounts and
> >> added the Business menu) not just ‘enable extra buttons’, but my memory
> >> could be faulty.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Adrien
> >> 
> >> > On Apr 1, 2019, at 7:33 PM, David Carlson
> >> 
> >> <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > So far none of you have mentioned going to Edit > Preferences >
> >> 
> >> Business
> >> and checking Enable Extra Buttons.  Back in the Release 2.6.xx days that
> >> was necessary to even see the buttons to create invoices or whatever
> >> that I
> >> have never looked for because I was not using them.
> >> 
> >> > David Carlson
> >> > 
> >> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:39 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> >> 
> >> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >> > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 3:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <
> >> 
> >> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >> > > Oh.  Let me go to nabble to figure out that you're replying to my
> >> 
> >> post... now, having closed all the spammy windows for super resume...
> >> 
> >> > Or just use e-mail instead of Nabble? (or I’m sure something like
> >> 
> >> uBlock
> >> Origin could zap those windows before they come into existence)
> >> 
> >> > > Having the new account assistant create a specific set of accounts
> >> 
> >> IN
> >> NO WAY is "enabling business features." It's just a bunch of accounts.
> >> The
> >> features are always "enabled." We might as well speak of "enabling"
> >> double
> >> entry features in Gnucash when we open a register in transaction view.
> >> 
> >> > > It is convenient, to be sure, to have these accounts created for me,
> >> 
> >> but this is in no way something in preferences, as was implied in the
> >> message to which I was responding.
> >> 
> >> > > There is NO special setting. To quote Monty Python, there is NO
> >> 
> >> severed head beneath the bed.
> >> 
> >> > > David T.
> >> > 
> >> > I just opened a new file, chose the default ‘common accounts’ which
> >> 
> >> did
> >> not include A/R and A/P and sure enough, the “Business” menu is visible
> >> as
> >> was the “New Invoice” button. (I didn’t go through the trouble of
> >> creating
> >> an invoice or bill and seeing what would happen)
> >> 
> >> > This was not always the case, certainly not at some point in the 2.6
> >> 
> >> series. I distinctly remember having to ‘enable business features’ to
> >> both
> >> get the Business menu as well as making the New Invoice button visible.
> >> I
> >> think doing so also created the special A/R and A/P accounts in my tree.
> >> 
> >> > Perhaps the business features which were originally an add-on module
> >> 
> >> were finally integrated into the main program at some point.
> >> 
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Adrien
> >> > _______
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