[GNC] Your Classification / Tagging Implementation

[Gal]

Thanks Adrien, 
I've also settled on method 1 and I share your view about it.
Another advantage I had in mind is that future change will be easier to do.
For example, if GnuCash implements classification feature in the future and
I'd like to take advantage of it, changing transaction notes will be easier
than fiddling with the chart of accounts and splits.
In addition, I keep the notes field exclusively for tagging.

I also found that, for my own use, the transaction report very flexible.
Actually, the transaction & the net worth reports are the only reports that
I use, and in the case of the net worth report, filtering is unnecessary.
I agree that some other reports will benefit greatly from the filtering
option though.
As a note, I noticed that the Income and GST statement report does also have
the filtering option.




Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote
> Gal,
> 
> I use the first method and you've maybe come across threads here where I 
> recommend it.
> 
> The biggest advantage is keeping the Chart of Accounts simple. Depending 
> on your needs, creating new hierarchies can get unwieldy very quickly.
> 
> Method 1, also simplifies reporting. If you need a special report 
> filtered to tags, you can get that, but otherwise, you don't have to do 
> anything special for standard reports.
> 
> The downside to Method 1 (and current advantage to Method 2) is not 
> every report has the filtering option necessary to utilize it fully. As 
> far as I know, this is limited to the Transaction Report. Thus, you 
> can't use Method 1 for Balance Sheets or Income Statements. These would 
> be most useful in the case of evaluating performance of separate rental 
> properties, or long-term job profitability.
> 
> Without implementing a separate feature just for additional dimensions 
> of classification, adding the filtering option to the Income Statement 
> and Balance Sheet (if not all reports) would allow users to tag as they 
> see fit and craft needed reports with ease.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
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