[GNC] two instances on different books

[David Cousens]

Brook,

I have in the past run multiple instances on different books with no
major problems apart from the workflow issues Michael bought up. 

All sets of books are then subject to the same set of user preferences
and changing them for one changes them for all. 

The other way is to run multiple users and switch between the users
when you need to use a different set of books. Then the user
preferences are unique to each user and therefor each set of books.
Requires a logoff/login as the new user.

At the moment and for the forseeable future you can't have multiple
users accessing the same set of books without conflicts. Possibly in
future with dtatabase only storage

of course if you can afford multiple computers and network storgae then
you can run a different set of books on each computer.

David 

On Wed, 2024-08-14 at 06:46 -0600, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user
wrote:
> Is it safe for a single user to run simultaneously two different
> instances of GC on two different books?
> 
> If so, what settings are shared between them and therefore must be
> the same?  I can think of all the general settings, which mostly seem
> to be preferences about overall features like whether or not to use
> formal or informal names.  I would expect no conflict as these are
> preferences of the individual GC user and stored within a user-
> specific directory. Have I missed anything here or misinterpreted
> this?
> 
> However, I can think of one preference that is not like that: the
> root directory for associated documents.  I believe this is also a
> user-specific setting not a book-specific one (please correct me if
> that has been changed, which I eagerly wish for).  If so, then the
> two instances are forced to have documents in the same directory,
> something that might or might not be appropriate.  Are there any
> other settings like this that would interact (possibly poorly)
> between two distinct instances of GC?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook
> 
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