Thanks, David. I'm refraining from deleting any text unless it is glaringly obvious that it is wrong. What I'm trying to do is to link various related pieces of information together. As you say, sometimes it can be contradictory because one side is quite outdated. I believe that, with having links, this would become easier to navigate and eventually correct. Sometimes I run into a page describing some concept and I can not find it afterwards. Multiple entry points to documentation are also extremely confusing to me - faq, wiki, user docs, doxygen, txt files, descriptions in the repo, etc. So, I guess, the ability to clean up is equally important as adding new text. :)
The Lots Concept guide page, which I linked to the Concept of Lots wiki page, contains the most complete explanation of the lots concept and the *implementation*, which is currently in GnuCash. From that point it is very valuable although it may be outdated. And I never saw any link to that page elsewhere. It is a bit difficult (for me, at least) to distinguish between user and developer documentation. Because, as a user, I had terrible problems working with Lots - transactions would appear duplicate out of the blue, transactions would be split automatically, etc. None of what's happening was obvious until I read the mentioned description. So, once a few details were known, I had no issues with the Lots any longer. Not able to reproduce the issues I was experiencing before and report as bugs because now I don't remember the way I tried to do it instinctively. In addition, it would be handy to have useful links on the home page. For example, Uservoice is missing and I think this is quite handy for end users to have input into the desired features. While it does not guarantee the implementation, at least it shows where the demand is. Hope what I wrote here makes sense. These are mostly observations from my short recent experience and not a direct reference to what you wrote earlier. Thank you for making the changes you just did. This just proves that adding the links between related topics helps to clean up the things a bit. For example, someone who only reads the FAQ would have a different understanding of capital gains process than someone who happened to search for Lots and read a different page. Now, at least, they should be a bit more aligned. Cheers Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 6:35 PM From: "David T." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> To: cicko <alen.sil...@gmx.com> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Capital Gains FAQ entry Cicko, I see that you have gotten involved in working on the wiki; fabulous! I recently received a notice that you had edited the FAQ on handling capital gains, by adding a reference to the wiki page “Concept of Lots”. Naturally, having received the announcement of the page change, I took a look at both the FAQ section and the Concept of Lots page, and found a number of problems. First, the FAQ itself is quite dated, mentioning the status of gains as of version 1.8. Since the Tutorial & Concept Guide represents the most complete and up-to-date version of the documentation, I have added these references and removed the original paragraph. Next, it goes into quite a bit of detail on how to enter gains—topics that are now covered in quite some detail in the Tutorial & Concepts Guide. SInce "9.7. Selling Shares” is so thorough, the examples given in the FAQ are both incomplete and redundant. Consequently, I am removing the example in the FAQ, and pointing to the Tutorial a second time, since it has so many detailed examples. Finally, I wonder whether it is wise to link to the “Concept of Lots” page, as it appears to be a description of how the implementer of the Lots feature went about it. Some of this information does appear to be unique, however, so I didn’t touch your reference to it. Long term, I think the information on this page should be separated so that the technical, development, information was placed on a technical page, and the user-focused information placed in the documentation set. Anyhow, I just wanted to let you know why I went into this section and changed it just after you had. David _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel