[GNC] booking period

[Manfred Usselmann]

Am 2024-08-02 18:15, schrieb John Ralls:
>> 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.
> 

Also the currency should be part of the book.

When I have some time...

For now I will create a shell script for every gnucash datafile which 
loads a specific dconf file before starting GC and dumps the settings to 
it afterwards...

Regards
Manfred