Thanks Dave (And sorry – I knew I forget at least one of the regular mailing 
list people... Should have just said that you all rock ☹ )

Anyway – your comments make a good point regarding the never ending push to try 
to keep it all up to date. I know that the Tut and concepts guide and manual 
are done within xml DocBook. Does anyone know of any way to have one source of 
all information that the system can then produce the wiki pages, manual and 
tut/concepts guide? They are all different forms of information, but just 
wondering whether, for example, “GNUCash Windows Installation” could have one 
file that has tags or something for the different information in the different 
areas (so the “how to” section gets automatically pulled to the manual, the 
detailed tutorial and cool stuff to do gets pulsed into the concepts, and the 
detailed discussions and troubleshooting gets shunted to the wiki). Hopefully 
you could also define some “FAQ” questions for any of the topics that are 
automatically pulled to that page.

Maybe I’m just overthinking it... I have a habit of doing that.

Thanks and regards,

Matt

From: David T.<mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, 9 February 2018 4:27 PM
To: Matt Graham<mailto:matt_graham2...@hotmail.com>
Cc: Adrien Monteleone<mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>; 
gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Cash Flow View

Matt,

The wiki can always use help, so thank you! I think your approach makes sense. 
I will note that there already is a set of installation pages, and it may be 
most useful simply to move the relevant questions and answers to them. I 
suspect that there are similar overlaps in other areas of the FAQ. In each 
case, I would hope that you would keep a general question in the FAQ along with 
a reference to the appropriate dedicated wiki page. But by all means, move 
content to more specific pages wherever possible!

One major challenge in all the GnuCash documentation (the wiki, the website, 
and the Help and Guide) is making sure that the information is up to date, 
accurate, and still relevant. While it may be interesting to refer to technical 
accounting discussions from the lists in 2005, are the discussions still 
useful, and should readers need to know about them? I would hope that as you 
move things around, some of the more dated entries could be removed or placed 
in a different context to reflect their time-dated nature.

Generally, I think that information that addresses problems for versions that 
are no longer officially supported should either be deleted or archived in a 
special GnuCash salt mine, so that current users of the software aren’t 
worrying whether they need to manage their dbus daemons or not.

David

> On Feb 9, 2018, at 9:03 AM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> G’day All,
>
> I was thinking about what Adrien said in a past email: “Many questions lately 
> seem to be asked a bit too quickly.”. I agree – I sometimes wonder whether 
> people do a simple google before asking.
>
> Still, when I tried to go onto the GNUCash FAQ wiki to find the answer and 
> send it to someone, I found it really hard to find it (but it was there when 
> I searched the page). Due to the huge amount of ‘questions’ on there, It is 
> very difficult to quickly scan down to find stuff you are interested in.
>
> I have edited the page to take the actual questions out of the table of 
> contents – so hopefully people can more easily find their answer through 
> browsing their area (eg the “Using the Business Features” area if they are 
> wondering about how to do invoice stuff). Devs/experts, feel free to revert 
> it back if you don’t like it.
> I fiddled with “mw-collapsable” to get an expandable table of contents, but 
> couldn’t get it working well.
>
> To further improve it all, I’m considering trying to establish more wiki 
> pages to take a lot of the questions off the FAQ. Eg all the installation 
> questions would probably be better placed on wiki pages, with the FAQ just 
> having entries “Installing on Windows”, “Installing on Mac” and “Installing 
> on Linux” to link users to the right wiki page....
>
> Anyone got any other ideas to make it easier for people to find the answers 
> without taking up Adrien/John/Geert/Mike’s time? (you all rock, by the way)
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Matt
>
> From: Adrien Monteleone<mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2018 6:29 AM
> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Cash Flow View
>
> I second Mike’s comments generally.
>
> What would probably address most concerns in this regard is a default 
> multi-column report that included the basics—Income Statement, Balance Sheet, 
> and perhaps Income/Expense graphs. This would be auto-opened and up to date. 
> If a seasoned/power user didn’t want it, they could just set a preference not 
> to open it at start. Alternatively, it could be a menu entry or toolbar 
> button for easy discovery.
>
> Many questions lately seem to be asked a bit too quickly. But that’s not 
> always the case. In my several years of experience as a Gnucash user, I find 
> much of what I want to accomplish to be quite obtuse discovery-wise. Perhaps 
> this is a consequence of the software being generalized for as many use cases 
> as possible, but I’d suspect more because the reporting system has a very 
> high hurdle for customization. (and the data is not yet easy to extract as 
> with proper SQL, which is of course, in the works)
>
> The recurring questions I see on this list aren’t issues with Gnucash not 
> being able to provide what people are looking for, but that the ability takes 
> some gymnastics, or at the least is not easily discoverable. Certainly, that 
> is something I think can be improved even before the full SQL implementation 
> is achieved.
>
> With regards to the specific question, the answer is, “No, it doesn’t out of 
> the box.”
>
> There IS a ‘cash flow’ report, but this isn’t the same sort of report that I 
> was expecting to see or what is described on most business accounting sites 
> I’ve come across, or the one you are looking for Sean.
>
> The built-in cash flow report shows you which accounts had money going in and 
> out. It is for a time period, but it does not show you a change in position 
> for a particular account over several time periods, say each month for a 
> year. It also will not show you projected balances because it only shows 
> actual recorded transactions. (you could fudge this with future dated 
> transactions that you later delete or adjust but that could get messy)
>
> You can however take the time to set up your recurring revenue and expenses 
> as scheduled transactions. Then you can run a Future Scheduled Transactions 
> Summary report. Again, this report is only for one period. (defined however 
> you want) It is not for multiple periods. But you could create a custom 
> multi-column report, and put consecutive periods in each column. 
> Unfortunately, you don’t get consolidated account names, they will appear in 
> each column. Alternatively, you could run this report for each period, copy 
> and paste to a spreadsheet, then create your consolidated report/graph there.
>
> The Income/Expense chart is the closest I’ve found to something like this, 
> but it only shows historical data, not future projections. (It doesn’t allow 
> for the inclusion of scheduled transactions)
>
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Feb 6, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Sean Ford <for...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does GnuCash include a "cash flow" view, i.e., a simple line showing
>> projected balance over time based on recurring expenses and income?
>>
>> Thank you!
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