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

[Jeff Abrahamson]

A bug was filed on this issue in November of 2007 (!).

    https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493789

I've updated it to to point to this thread.  I strongly encourage those
of you who who feel that this is important to add yourselves to that bug.

I've not found documentation on how the gnucash developers prefer one
express interest.  A common technique in many communities is simply to
(create a bugzilla account on bugs.gnucash.org, then) login and add a
single comment with the text "+1".  This will express your interest to
the developers, add you to receive emails about the evolution of the
bug, and make it easy to find again (in principle, anyway).

Jeff


On 03/03/2019 15:35, John Dablin via gnucash-user wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Has anyone similarly afflicted invented a work-around?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 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
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