[GNC] In Praise of Excellent Features

[R. Victor Klassen]

I would add, a few versions back we had a change to how account names are filled in/suggested.

I understood the feature would let me type
	Greenhouse:Tom in order to get Income:Produce Sales:Greenhouse:Tomatoes which is better than the old
Income:Produce Sales:Greenhouse:T  filling in the rest of Tomatoes.

… which was cool enough, but it turns out I can type

Gre:T and get the same effect.

[your mileage may vary if your chart of accounts doesn’t include Income:Produce Sales:Greenhouse:Tomatoes]


> On Jun 3, 2023, at 4:30 PM, David Klann <dklann at grunch.org> wrote:
> 
> (Replying to the digest summary...)
> 
> Hear, Hear NoobAlice! Thank you for this great summary of little-known (to me at least) features!
> 
> On 6/3/23 11:00, you wrote:
>> Hello All!
>> No questions, just joy!  Thank you to all the devs and to everyone who
>> gives advice in the mailing list!
> 
> To this I add my thanks. I have been using GnuCash for about six years to keep books for my sole proprietorship consulting practice. Each new release brings more satisfaction!
> 
>> I have been happily using GnuCash for years.  Today I was poking through
>> the menus to see if I could find an Expand All/Collapse All option for
>> the accounts tree, when I saw other options I had never previously noticed.
>> New treats:
>> Edit > Cascade Account Properties
>> For an account and all its subaccounts, you can change all the colors,
>> set placeholder status, and/or set hidden status.
>> Edit > Renumber Subaccounts
>> WOW!  This has been the bane of my existence when working with
>> QuickBooks-using clients who have never numbered their charts of
>> accounts, as the external program we use requires numbered accounts.
>> This looks so efficient!  I am accustomed to manually changing account
>> numbers one. by. one.
>> Actions > Rename Page
>> This looks so convenient.  You can even rename the Accounts page!
>> And my favorite options that are good friends:
>> Variables
>> You can use variables in scheduled transactions.  For example, if you
>> are entering a paycheck and you like to split out taxes and deductions,
>> you can just fill in the blank for "grosswages" and have GnuCash compute
>> all the line items.
>> Credit Salary		grosswages
>> Debit Income Tax	grosswages*0.10	### 10%
>> Debit Retirement	grosswages*0.05	### 5%
>> Debit Local Tax		3.98		### assuming fixed amount
>> Debit Health Insurance	100.00		### assuming fixed amount
>> Debit Checking Acct	grosswages*(1-0.15)-3.98-100	### net of above
>> Spreadsheets
>> One can just copy a GnuCash report and paste into a spreadsheet for
>> further manipulation, which is great for generating external reports for
>> non-coders such as myself.
>> Custom Shortcuts
>> Two simple edits to ~/.local/share/gnucash/accelerator-map, and I have
>> shortcuts to open the Saved Reports list with Ctrl+A and turn
>> double-line view on/off with Ctrl+D!!!
>> ;
>> ; Double-line register on/off
>> (gtk_accel_path
>> "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleDoubleLineAction"
>> "<Primary>d")
>> ;
>> ; Saved reports configuration list
>> (gtk_accel_path
>> "<Actions>/gnc-plugin-menu-additions-actions/AdditionsAction/4d3dcdc8890b11df99dd94cddfd72085Action"
>>   "<Primary>a")
> 
> To this great list of awesome features I add: thank you for the excellent instructions for compiling GnuCash from the git sources.
> 
> I recently learned that the 5.1 flatpak (at FlatHub) would not work with the Python API. I have been hoping to explore it in order to write a custom invoice printing tool. I set off to compile from the git repo and was led to the wiki for compiling on Linux. Work perfectly for me on the first attempt.
> 
> Now to continue my education in the Python interface...
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>  ~David Klann
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