[GNC] Saving a New Book doesn't allow format selection

[john]

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We generally mean "the book" to refer to a single GnuCash file and its accounts. That comes from the name an internal data structure, but it's also a bit of accounting jargon. You've no doubt heard phrases like "book value", "booking an invoice", and of course the infamous "two sets of books" and "cooking the books".

Regards,
John Ralls



> On Aug 16, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Phyllis Bruce <pobruce46 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m new to GnuCash and prolly don’t know what you are talking about when you say book?  I might use that term book to describe a different file altogether, like my GnuCash file and my playgnucash file.  When I created the play file I just saved my GnuCash file with a new name so I could test scenarios.
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>> On Aug 16, 2022, at 3:16 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 16, 2022, at 11:56 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I was just testing something out with a new book, and when I went to save this new book, I was unable to select the storage format for the new book. I would have imagined that I would be able to tell GnuCash to use a specific format (like SQLite3) when I save a new book, but this option only appears on the Save As dialog. Should this be changed?
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>> Yeah. PR welcome.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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