(Replying to the digest summary...)
Hear, Hear NoobAlice! Thank you for this great summary of little-known
(to me at least) features!
On 6/3/23 11:00, you wrote:
Hello All!
No questions, just joy! Thank you to all the devs and to everyone who
gives advice in the mailing list!
To this I add my thanks. I have been using GnuCash for about six years
to keep books for my sole proprietorship consulting practice. Each new
release brings more satisfaction!
I have been happily using GnuCash for years. Today I was poking through
the menus to see if I could find an Expand All/Collapse All option for
the accounts tree, when I saw other options I had never previously noticed.
New treats:
Edit > Cascade Account Properties
For an account and all its subaccounts, you can change all the colors,
set placeholder status, and/or set hidden status.
Edit > Renumber Subaccounts
WOW! This has been the bane of my existence when working with
QuickBooks-using clients who have never numbered their charts of
accounts, as the external program we use requires numbered accounts.
This looks so efficient! I am accustomed to manually changing account
numbers one. by. one.
Actions > Rename Page
This looks so convenient. You can even rename the Accounts page!
And my favorite options that are good friends:
Variables
You can use variables in scheduled transactions. For example, if you
are entering a paycheck and you like to split out taxes and deductions,
you can just fill in the blank for "grosswages" and have GnuCash compute
all the line items.
Credit Salary grosswages
Debit Income Tax grosswages*0.10 ### 10%
Debit Retirement grosswages*0.05 ### 5%
Debit Local Tax 3.98 ### assuming fixed amount
Debit Health Insurance 100.00 ### assuming fixed amount
Debit Checking Acct grosswages*(1-0.15)-3.98-100 ### net of above
Spreadsheets
One can just copy a GnuCash report and paste into a spreadsheet for
further manipulation, which is great for generating external reports for
non-coders such as myself.
Custom Shortcuts
Two simple edits to ~/.local/share/gnucash/accelerator-map, and I have
shortcuts to open the Saved Reports list with Ctrl+A and turn
double-line view on/off with Ctrl+D!!!
;
; Double-line register on/off
(gtk_accel_path
"<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleDoubleLineAction"
"<Primary>d")
;
; Saved reports configuration list
(gtk_accel_path
"<Actions>/gnc-plugin-menu-additions-actions/AdditionsAction/4d3dcdc8890b11df99dd94cddfd72085Action"
"<Primary>a")
To this great list of awesome features I add: thank you for the
excellent instructions for compiling GnuCash from the git sources.
I recently learned that the 5.1 flatpak (at FlatHub) would not work with
the Python API. I have been hoping to explore it in order to write a
custom invoice printing tool. I set off to compile from the git repo and
was led to the wiki for compiling on Linux. Work perfectly for me on the
first attempt.
Now to continue my education in the Python interface...
Thank you!
~David Klann
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