[GNC] booking period

[David Carlson]

I have a question about when the user preferences that can be set under
Edit > Preferences are saved.  Is it necessary to close the program to save
changes to these settings or is it sufficient to perform, say, File >
Save?  Or are those preferences automatically updated when you close the
Preferences window a la Android OS?
The reason I ask is that it seems to be necessary to close the program to
update custom report configurations and register window column widths, to
name a couple of things.  I think that I once  created a feature request to
add a button to commit updates to user configurations such as reports and
column widths without needing to close the program, but that was long ago.


On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 12:15 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One possible work-around, although not easy to implement, would be to
> create separate users on your computer for each book that needed separate
> user preferences. Using separate computers might even be easier.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Aug 2, 2024, at 00:13, Manfred Usselmann <manfred at usselmann.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > It seems to me that the currently set accounting period is not saved in
>> the GnuCash file? I have different files for different periods and
>> different organizations and have to adjust the period every time I open
>> another file. Wouldn't it be a useful improvement to change this?
>>
>> They are indeed user preferences, not part of the book. Yes, it would be
>> a huge improvement to make it a book feature. It’s not a trivial change
>> though and so far nobody has prioritized doing the work. Should anyone care
>> to write it note that it will need to be guarded by a feature (see
>> libgnucash/engine/gnc-features.h) and so will need two PRs: One to
>> implement the engine and backend changes that make it readable for the
>> stable branch and a second that moves the option from preferences to file
>> properties and set the feature for the future branch.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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