[GNC] What is the intended effect of hiding an account ?

[David Carlson]

Sorry,  I was not really paying attention to who was answering which
question.  It is very hard to do when Gmail is butchering the thread
sequence.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 5:44 PM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 7/21/2022 4:53 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> > Perhaps another user misunderstood your question. John R is a major
> > developer and he has a very good idea of what is going on inside the
> > program. Clarifying the documentation is always appreciated.
>
> David, I was NOT asking about how the program worked or about the
> documentation. I have not worked on THIS project but am a retired senior
> systems analyst and senior business analyst, decades in the cypher mines
> for one of the world's largest "financials".
>
> I was asking about PURPOSE.
>
> I can see clear uses for hiding sub accounts but having their contents
> included in the (parental) total. But it is far less clear under what
> circumstances you would want sub accounts (that had non-zero balances)
> to NOT be included in the (parental) total when the sub accounts were
> hidden. That's the behavior that was being asked about.
>
> Documentation unclear that this is not what happens? Unless a clear
> purpose, I would consider NOT including in the totals a more or less
> obvious accounting error. The documentation is supposed to clarify
> "gnucash does not make this error", "gnucash does not make that error?,
> etc.
>
> That's why I was asking "under what circumstances would you NOT want the
> hidden accounts included in the parental total?" Wearing the business
> analyst hat, not the systems analyst hat.
>
> Michael D Novack
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