Frank, Read the wiki and spent better part of my day trying to generate a template, but I am sorry to say I give up.
The wiki assumes one is familiar with xml and how gnucash uses xml - neither of which I am comfortable with. Here’s what I tried - First I tried to look at my raw xml datafile to map the instructions from wiki onto my datafile. But I got lost in all the encodings and tags and wasn’t sure even after all that effort, whether each account needs to assigned a new uuid. Then I tried exporting just the account tree - instructions say I should be able to select just the accounts I want, but I found that no such choice is given and the whole tree gets exported. Though this was a much smaller file (because of no transactions), I noticed that tax table info wasn’t there (this is also mentioned in the wiki as a drawback to this method). I then saved a copy of my datafile with a different name (as suggested by wiki to retain tax table info). I thought I will first clean up all the accounts/transactions by deleting everything except the GST related accounts. This opened up more issues than it solved. Some accounts could not be deleted because it complained about read-only transactions (voided transactions) being present. Others complained about conflicts with missing splits in scheduled transactions (presumably because I already deleted one of the accounts in the scheduled transaction). I lost my motivation after that. Having spent all day thinking about this, I am now wondering whether it would have been a futile effort even if I had succeeded in making a template. Reason being - my use case for GST is only a subset of what Amish laid out. Even if we attempt to put Amish's comprehensive setup as a template, it cannot be used by all GST users in India. What we have posted is only one aspect of GST in India, mainly covering GSTR-3B and GSTR-1/2 components of the return. Then there are other aspects such as - - composition dealers - e-way bills (launched recently) - export related services and such… Those require a different set of returns to be filed, so the account hierarchy may be different as well. I am not conversant with the above aspects, so I can’t comment on what the appropriate account structure in that case would be. Perhaps it’s better to wait until GST stabilises in India before we can think of introducing a general purpose template for all users. Or maybe, we are going to need different templates depending on who the user is - composition dealer, exporter, interstate supplier, etc. Cheers, Deva > On 06-Feb-2018, at 8:02 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 06.02.2018 um 13:07 schrieb Deva -: >> And yes, it can certainly go on the wiki for those looking for help. >> I wish I had something like that to guide me when I was doing the >> same, but with trial and error, I got to what I wanted. > > Or, if one of you were volunteering to create a template, we could ship > it with future releases. > > The basics to create one are described in > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Account_Hierarchy_Template . > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#How_to_translate_the_files_containing_the_new_account_hierarchies > might have additional tips. > > Regards > Frank _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
