I'm not sure I follow your issue, but I'll note that the list of types of accounts in GnuCash is outlined in the Help docs in Chapter 5 at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/acct-types.html
There are 13 types listed there. -------- Original Message -------- From: Arman Schwarz <armanschw...@gmail.com> Sent: Sun Jul 11 08:03:51 EDT 2021 To: Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] How do I get the "sign" (or side) of the transaction from the account or transaction element in xml? Ok I'll take a look myself, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. On Sun, 11 Jul 2021, 9:50 pm Geert Janssens, <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op zondag 11 juli 2021 13:38:43 CEST schreef Arman Schwarz: > > Thanks Geert, > > > > I'm aware of the need to think in terms of debit/credit signs, but my > > question was how I could know whether a positive value in the split > element > > in the XML will increase or decrease the "balance" that the user sees in > > gnucash. > > > > This depends on the side of the accounting equation the account is on, > e.g. > > positive split values increase the balance of an asset account, but > > decrease the balance of an income account. Rather than manually > maintaining > > a mapping of account types and whether the sign is positive or negative, > I > > was hoping there'd be something in the XML or perhaps in those bindings > you > > mentioned that would do this for me. > > > > I don't think this is stored in the xml file as the net representation in > the > gui is a combination of account type and the user preference. The former > is > hard-coded, the latter can be changed by the user. I don't know if we can > access either information via the python bindings. I don't use them myself. > > Regards, > > Geert > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel