Re: New Entities

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 20:06:35 -0600 David Carlson wrote: > Matt, > > You bring up a good point. I have seen a suggestion somewhere to use > virtual machines to sandbox GnuCash files and keep them isolated from > each other. > > I think that is Overkill but it works.

Re: New Entities

On 02/06/2018 08:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: When you want to switch from one entity’s file to the other, simply open the File menu, look near the bottom and you’ll see a list of recently used Gnucash files. One will be the file you want to open. Click it. Gnucash will open that file,

Re: New Entities

ic >> than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. RE: Copying transactions from an account to the general >> ledger (Mike Donovan) >> 2. New Entities (Roger Hatton) >> 3. Re: Copying transa

Re: New Entities

Matt, There might be a use case for it, but as I mentioned, it’s just too darned easy already to switch between books. With the example of the club book I manage, I have to sometimes record my own expenses in my personal books, and then in the club books as a contribution in-kind. The workflow

Re: New Entities

I’m well aware of that method. It just doesn’t produce that result for me on a Mac. I still only get one file open at a time. I had to resort to cli to force it. Note, this is just for Gnucash. Other apps let me open more than one file with the double click method. (and for the record, I use

Re: New Entities

Matt, You bring up a good point. I have seen a suggestion somewhere to use virtual machines to sandbox GnuCash files and keep them isolated from each other. I think that is Overkill but it works. I occasionally open two files simultaneously if I want to copy a transaction from one file to

Re: New Entities

It is OS specific. You Apple users don't know that ,Windoze and Linux and certain other OSes allow the user to open a data file with it's preferred program simply by double clicking the data file icon. Makes it easy to get the right one when there are lots of files with similar names. :-) David

Re: New Entities

The only other thing to add - this all presumes that you need separation. Probably do for your businesses (tax and legal reasons - I have no idea), but don't forget that GNUCash reports are very flexible - you choose the accounts you want included. I don't use the business features though -

Re: New Entities

The only way I’ve found to do this is from the command line. While certainly possible, the normal methods, including the File > Open method I described in this thread should not allow opening two files at once. I can’t seem to get it to do so otherwise. I don’t suspect a new user will be

Re: New Entities

Actually, more than one file can be opened simultaneously, but certain settings that apply to the program environment on the computer can be lost if they are changed while editing one file then it is not the last file closed. It is better not to open more than one file at a time. David C On

Re: New Entities

Roger, Yes. Just start a new GnuCash book file for the new entity. Create its account structure as you wish. Save the file. (probably using the name of each entity helps) Only one file at a time is allowed to be open. (the same holds for Quickbooks incidentally) Open the file corresponding

Re: New Entities

> On Feb 6, 2018, at 1:57 PM, Roger Hatton wrote: > > Does GNU Cash support more than one entity? > In other words separate ledgers for separate business names? > Using the one single downloaded GNU Cash system? > Process advice appreciated. You can have as many books as