[GNC] I would like different Preference settings for different files, same user

[John Dablin]

On 03/03/2019 11:58, Michael Hendry wrote:
> My personal accounts run according to the UK tax year - 6th Apr one year to 5th Apr the next - but I also keep the books for East of Scotland Jazz Education (ESJE), a charity  whose reporting year runs from 1st Nov one year to 31st Oct the next because its peak activity in bookkeeping terms is a Summer Jazz School.
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> The manual tells me quite clearly that Preferences are per-user, not per-file, so I can’t complain that Gnucash isn’t doing what’s intended! BUT it isn’t convenient to have to switch to another user to edit the ESJE books.
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> Has anyone similarly afflicted invented a work-around?
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> Regards,
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> Michael
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I agree wholeheartedly, it's illogical not to be able to set different 
financial years for different sets of accounts. I have exactly the same 
problem. I keep the accounts for two organisations, one has a financial 
year ending 31st December, the other ending 31st March, so when I get 
reports for one of them I have to set the start and end dates manually.

John Dablin