Thanks Will.
That is more or less what i was talking about when I talked about "splitting" a
Microsoft Access database so the data was on one computer (the server) and the
user interface with the Microsoft Jet database engine, custom queries, data
entry forms, reports, etc was on another.
Ditto for writing the html/php/java script code for storing and retrieving data
from an online Microsoft or Linux host computer/server.
When this division of ~data and ~code occurrs properly you can have multiple
users access and, with proper protections, manipulate the data at the same time.
Regarding GnuCash... I view it, more or less, as two parts...1 - the code to
get, store, manipulate, retrieve, and present the users data to the user2 - the
actual data itself... which I think is in XML.(There are other ways to see the
GnuCash "parts" of course.)
With that "model" in mind I guess I was wondering if provisions had been for
the data to be split off, stored on a server, and accessed by multiple users...
each with their own "front end" (as I call it)
All that said, I guess I know enough to be dangerous :-)
As someone mentioned I should probably have read the FAQ's and other stuff
before I posted this question.
On Monday, October 26, 2020, 1:06:59 AM EDT, w...@theprescotts.com
<w...@theprescotts.com> wrote:
Just to chime in on the terminology...
In my current job I do back-end development for an NGO. We have another
developer who works on the front end and a couple people working on a mobile
app.
The back end is an application that runs on an Amazon Web Service instance. The
front end is a web app that users use to communicate with the back end. The
data is stored in a data base that the back end talks to. The back end has an
API (Application Programming Interface) and the front end and mobile app both
make https calls to the back end to talk to it as well as using some other
protocols.
I believe this structure is common and what most developers have in mind when
they refer to a back end and a front end. Stand alone applications like Gnucash
probably would not normally be considered to have a back end or front end.
Will
On 2020 Oct 25, at 10-25 21:11:11, Fran_3 via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
Thanks Jim. Regarding Front End and Back End...
When I used to develop Microsoft Access databases I would split it such
that...- All the data was stored on a local peer-to-peer server. We called that
the "Back End"
- The "Front End" would have the user interface with the queries, data entry
forms, reports, etc. And, if I remember correctly, this could actually be
different for each user of the mdb database so some people had easy access to
certain things... like data entry only, etc.
In recent times I've been developing online databases with MySQL and PHP. In
this case the "front end" would be the queries, etc coded in PHP while
everything else would live in a MySQL database on the web server.
At least that is the language I've used to describe things to myself.
On Sunday, October 25, 2020, 4:37:26 PM EDT, Jim DeLaHunt
<list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote:
On 2020-10-25 08:29, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
> - I have always considered GnuCash as a program that must be installed on the
> local machine.
> - With the myBiz.gnucash file also on the local machine.
> - This means that two users can not open GnuCash on their respective machines
> and access the myBiz.gnucash data file at the same time...
> 1 - Right so far?
> 2 - Am I also correct in assuming that the gnucash.exe is essentially the
> data base's front end while myBiz.gnucash is the back end containing all the
> data?
> 3 - If so is there anyway to keep the back end with the data (myBiz.gnuCash)
> in the cloud and point the frond end on your local machine (gnucash.exe) to
> the data stored in the cloud... like maybe stored on MyDrive at Google or
> where ever?
> Thanks for any help.
Fran:
There are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about "Multiple Computers,
Users, ..."
<https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Multiple_Computers.2C_Users.2C_...>.
You will find some answers there, especially to your questions 1 and 3.
Also, Stan Brown's Oct 12 answer
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-October/093577.html>
to your question, "Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux
& Windows machines?" is relevant.
Regarding the terms "front end" and "back end", in software engineering
they have specific meanings which don't line up with your question #2.
In general, all of your bookkeeping information (transactions, balances,
chart of accounts) is stored in your book file, myBiz.gnucash, and none
is stored in the GnuCash.exe program. Some of the data you rely on when
using GnuCash, such as your preferences, custom reports, etc., are in
preferences files which are neither in your book file nor in the
GnuCash.exe program. The "multiple computers" FAQ linked to above talks
about this a little.
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada
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