On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:58:32PM -0400, CL Gilbert was heard to remark: > > I too use that feature on Quicken 2002 right now. I am transitioning to > gnucash. I think it would be nice to maybe have multiple categories for > one transaction. I dont mean split either. > > |>unfortunately not really.. You could use the description or action > |>fields in the transaction for this.. But no, gnucash does not have > |>the concept of a "class". Note that category directly maps to > |>"account". but there is no direct mapping for "class". > |>
FYI, that was the original intent of the 'action' field. It was supposed to be a user-defined enumerated list. Unlike the free-text fields in memo, descriptin, it was supposed to have a different GUI, a multiple-choice, pick-from-a-list menu GUI. The reports were supposed to be keyed off this field. Thus, it allowed the user to define a set of 'categories' that were meaningful to that user, and yet be far, far more limited in scope than the general free-text memo field. The 'magic' was to tie things together with the reports. I'm, thinking that it might be a good 'beginner' project for someone interested in learning the guts of GnuCash. Its a kind-of cleanup the gui here, enhance a report there type of thing; thhe core infrastructure is in place and works, but various areas need to be bent and sawed and polished. A fancy version of this would be to have a different set of actions, depending on the account type. Tis would be more, new, work. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
