[GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

[Andreas Hentze]

Am 04.02.22 um 00:42 schrieb davidcousens49 at gmail.com:
> Fernando,
>
> ...
>
> For the expenses you could create a sub account structure for each type of
> expense under a subaccount for each vehicle or for each type of expense have a
> sub-account for each vehicle. I personally
> would favour the former as it would allow you to see what each vehicle is
> costing you and help with the decisions to replace vehicle.
>
> The alternative of attaching tags in the description field associated with each
> vehicle has the disadvantage that AFAIK there is no filtering on such tags
> available in the report structures, whereas you can select the number of levels
> and which accounts are included which would enable reports to be setup for each
> vehicle.  You can use the Edit->Find menu option to search for all transactions
> containing a specific tag and use the search results transferred to a
> spreadsheet as the basis for a custom report however but there is more work and
> it has to be repeated each time you want a report.
>

I think with filtering in the report you come very close.
Suggestion to use this structure:
...farm.redcar.gas
...farm.redcar.repair
...farm.redcar.insurance
...farm.tractor1.gas
...farm.tractor1.repair
...farm.tractor1.insurance

I dont know the english name, but the german "Buchungsbericht". There is
a tab "Filter" where you can set a regular expression for example
"(gas|repair)" to get a report over all cars.

(unfortunately this tab does not exist for the report profit & loss)

Currently I have a problem with this filtering, but this will be a new
thread.