I think David Carlson was principally referring to the temrinology using" category". When I rewrote the importer section last time there was a major reorganisation of the guide and help in progress and it was suggestsed that it was more appropriate to the Help manual as it is largely a button by button description of the interface, although it is hard to separate that totally from illustrations of how to use it. I think he intention at that time was that the help would be basically interface description and explanation and the guide would be more oriented towards illustrating how to achieve specific accounting objectives. I haven't caught up with what the current thinking. I didn't cover the appending of descriptions/memo and updating in any great detail at the time as I hadn't been through the code on that section. I likely won't make too much progress in the next week or two as I have a few other things on over the next few weeks. It is always a problem keeping it modernized as the external technologies used are changing. In some ways I think it is better to keep the basic stuff as simple as possible. GnuCash is used widely in many different juridictions with considerable variation in practice in the banking sector. Europe seems to lead the way and Australia is hanging on to the end of the tail , at least in some respects. The demands of Digital Rights Management in the banking sector will bring some improvements there I'm told by my son who works as a developer in the area. One of the other David's (David Taylor I think ) was organising the rearrangement of the Help Manual and the Guide around 2020. Feel free to contribute any changes you think are warranted. David Cousens
On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 14:44 +1000, flywire wrote: > I think the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide is an excellent > introduction for Getting Started and Managing Personal Finances. The small > dataset demonstrates a lot. The only thing that really looks dated is the > checkbook-style transaction descriptions which are very different to modern > bank transaction descriptions. I understand from general comments in the > mailing list that others have a different view but I don't think those > concerns have been clearly described, something that is needed to fix the > problems. > How about aligning the Help manual Importing transactions from files with the > Concepts guide transactions? IIRC that's how it was when this section was in > the guide. I'm happy to contribute. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
