Ah, found it! (the thread) I knew I had saved it somewhere: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/079332.html
Derek explains there how ‘jobs’ were intended to work. They are really designed more like ‘purchase orders’ where you can link multiple vendor bills to one PO. A job can only have a single owner (vendor or customer) but any owner can have multiple jobs. Hope that helps. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 11, 2019, at 12:45 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > In line with David’s suggestion, I highly recommend turning on Transaction > Journal view and Double-Line mode if you aren’t using them already. > > It takes up more real estate on your screen, but you are always seeing all > info for a transaction. With this, you will see a note field just below the > description. It is very useful in such cases for ‘purpose’ notes where the > ‘description’ might be best suited for ‘payee’. > > You can then run Find operations filtering on the notes field and create > register reports from the result. (and possibly the transaction report can > use this as well, I haven’t tested) If you need more analysis, you can then > export or copy/paste the resulting report to a spreadsheet. > > There is a thread or two explaining ‘jobs' very well from this past year. Do > a search in the archives. > > The feature is extremely limited. It was not designed to aggregate all > transactions related to a job, but really to facilitate billing an entire > vendor invoice to a customer. (best I recall) You can’t mark individual line > items to different customers, for example. I do remember from the threads > that the person who wrote the code for them acknowledged the term ‘jobs’ > probably wasn’t the best choice in hindsight as everyone seems to think they > are something other than they are. Specific to your question, while you can > create a job for a vendor bill, that is a different job than you create for > customers, even if they have the same name. (2 independent lists of jobs) > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Jan 10, 2019, at 10:53 PM, David T. via gnucash-user >> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> >> Andrew, >> I hope Gnucash will give you years of accounting bliss... >> I can't answer the first question, since I do not use business features. >> The second sounds like you're asking for something like Quicken's Classes, >> which is a common request that no one has implemented in Gnucash. Yet? >> Without creating separate accounts, you might simply use unique descriptions >> (e.g., "African Safari 2019-01-12") and then use the latest version of the >> Transaction Report to retrieve all items for that event. Otherwise, I have >> no suggestions. >> Cheers,David T. >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:56, Andrew Cross<acr...@arc-industrial.com> wrote: >> So I have finally managed to implement gnu cash and am settled that it is >> going to do what I need it too. I am finally done with Quicken! However, >> there is something that I am struggling to understand. When I create job >> for a vendor bill, can I also use this job when I create a customer invoice? >> It seems that I cannot. >> >> >> >> Also, let's say I am leading tours and I have expenses related to four >> different tours. I need to track the income and expenses for these tours >> separately. How do I go about tracking the income and expenses for each >> individual tour without setting up separate accounts for each tour? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice. >> >> >> >> Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
