I just played with toggling that preference back and forth and as I do so, the 
’New Invoice’ button appears and disappears accordingly. It seems this is the 
only button affected unless there is a special toolbar somewhere I’m not 
triggering. (when viewing a bill/invoice there are 2 ’New Invoice’ buttons, one 
is the generic version, the other is tied to the same ‘current owner’ of the 
viewed bill/invoice - that one doesn’t toggle.)

The Business menu remains visible in all cases.

Certainly, if one needs to manually manage A/R or A/P or not even use them, 
those features would be nice to hide. I don’t think there is any danger posed 
however by their visibility or existence unless one tries to both use those 
features *and* manually make transactions in those special accounts.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:21 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Back in 2014 I used to think that going to Edit > Preferences > Business and 
> checking Enable Extra Buttons was about enabling business features, but I was 
> told then that it is only about adding some un-named buttons on some menus 
> that were never documented.  I agree that there should be a feature to turn 
> off business features for those of us that don't use them, because sometimes 
> they cause grief if accidentally or ignorantly activated.
> 
> David Carlson
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM Adrien Monteleone 
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Thanks David,
> 
> I was looking for that the other day and somehow glanced over it. Indeed, it 
> is still there in 3.4. (about to install 3.5 shortly) I suppose, then, since 
> preferences are user rather than book based that’s why the buttons were 
> already there. I didn’t try to start GC from a fresh user perspective. I’d 
> have to try an old copy of 2.6, but I seem to recall this being labeled as 
> ‘enable business features’ (which also added the special accounts and added 
> the Business menu) not just ‘enable extra buttons’, but my memory could be 
> faulty.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Apr 1, 2019, at 7:33 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > So far none of you have mentioned going to Edit > Preferences > Business 
> > and checking Enable Extra Buttons.  Back in the Release 2.6.xx days that 
> > was necessary to even see the buttons to create invoices or whatever that I 
> > have never looked for because I was not using them.
> > 
> > David Carlson
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:39 PM Adrien Monteleone 
> > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 3:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-user 
> > > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oh.  Let me go to nabble to figure out that you're replying to my post... 
> > > now, having closed all the spammy windows for super resume...
> > 
> > Or just use e-mail instead of Nabble? (or I’m sure something like uBlock 
> > Origin could zap those windows before they come into existence)
> > 
> > > Having the new account assistant create a specific set of accounts IN NO 
> > > WAY is "enabling business features." It's just a bunch of accounts. The 
> > > features are always "enabled." We might as well speak of "enabling" 
> > > double entry features in Gnucash when we open a register in transaction 
> > > view. 
> > > It is convenient, to be sure, to have these accounts created for me, but 
> > > this is in no way something in preferences, as was implied in the message 
> > > to which I was responding. 
> > > There is NO special setting. To quote Monty Python, there is NO severed 
> > > head beneath the bed. 
> > > David T.
> > 
> > I just opened a new file, chose the default ‘common accounts’ which did not 
> > include A/R and A/P and sure enough, the “Business” menu is visible as was 
> > the “New Invoice” button. (I didn’t go through the trouble of creating an 
> > invoice or bill and seeing what would happen)
> > 
> > This was not always the case, certainly not at some point in the 2.6 
> > series. I distinctly remember having to ‘enable business features’ to both 
> > get the Business menu as well as making the New Invoice button visible. I 
> > think doing so also created the special A/R and A/P accounts in my tree.
> > 
> > Perhaps the business features which were originally an add-on module were 
> > finally integrated into the main program at some point.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> > _______
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