[GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

[Eric Hammond]

Thanks Stan, and all who have replied.

I have tried something similar on v4.09, with different folder names but not changing the data file name itself.
That version became unstable and GnuCash stopped finding either one.
I will experiment and report back.

Eric Hammond


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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 08:47:14 -0700
From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash
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On 2022-08-07 00:44, flywire wrote:
> More cat skinning:
> 
>> * the ability to have two separate (at least) GnuCash file systems:
> *
> 
> In Windows (or probably any GUI) double-click file in data folder and 
> it will use file association to open the file (in GnuCash).
> 
> Alternatively, for each file: right-click file, create a shortcut, 
> drag shortcut to desktop. Same as above from desktop.

>From desktop _or_ Start Menu, as a matter of fact. I choose the latter,
because I like to keep my desktop clean.

Buy there's another option, that I don't think I've seen posted yet.

The OP is presumably using those "multiple file systems" to keep books on different entities. The user should give the files different names even though storing them in different locations.

Then, if the user forgets to use the shortcuts you suggested, or just doesn't like the shortcut idea, they can simply open GnuCash from the regular program icon. GC will automatically open the last file the user was working on. If that's the "wrong" one, click File and the last N files worked on will appear in the menu; just select the appropriate one.

Unlike most Windows programs, GC doesn't show you the location of each file, only its name. (At least that's true in the version I'm running.) That's why it's important to give the data files different names even if they're in different folders .

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com


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