On 3/25/2023 4:28 AM, David T. wrote:
Michael,
As a past documentation contributor, I'd assume any person taking up
this bug would attempt to document the functionality of the newly
added feature, regardless of the initial bug request.
David T.
What I meant is that it is easy for those inexperienced with
bookkeeping, especially those who never did it the old way, to conflate
"close the books" (as a logical operation) and "close the books" using
this particular gnucash tool. We see lots of this sort of confusion with
"opening the books" using the opening value wizard vs doing it the old
fashioned way with explicit transaction(s) to enter the initial values.
It might seem unnecessary since most newbies hopefully read the
tutorial, etc. but some new to gnucash but experienced with other
similar software (like QuickBooks ---- not Quicken) or very experienced
with old fashioned bookkeeping might jump right in and do things the old
way (without the shortcut/tools). This is also just like the
(unexpected?) behavior that to specify options for a report you first
run the report default and THEN use edit=?options to specify the options.
Michael D Novack
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