well I just installed Gnucash and cranked her up and it bombed out with this error...
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "C" (Missing character set "ISO8859-1") Warniong: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* [similar 5 more times] ?? Cheers, Adam. On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 02:34, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Elizabeth Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was experimenting with gnucash to see if i could do office billing with it > > for a medical practice. my education is in very practical things, not > > accounting, and as usual when experimenting with software i didn't read any > > documentation (what's new?). it took me many tries to add a customer and many > > more to make an invoice. that's why i think it isn't intuitive. > > Hmm.. Could you provide more information about this? I'm a bit > too close to the UI, so I know how everything is supposed to work. > However I tried to make the flow work "naturally". Could you perhaps > explain what was going through your head? What did you try? What > did you expect to happen? How did what actually happened confuse you? > > I'm trying to understand what you did (and why) so I can improve the > UI to help users along when they do something I didn't expect ;) > > Perhaps what we really need is a druid to "configure a company". > > > after the event i realised that i was missing many things - that it was > > pointless trying to add customers without the concept of accounts receivable > > in use. > > Well, you can create a customer before you create an AR account, but > yea, you need an AR account before you can post any invoices. > > > checking now, the customer is requested as a company, but i wanted to be able > > to bill individuals, and they would fall into groups (families) and they need > > to be able to change groups (eg leave home and be billed under their own > > name) > > Yes, this is true.. Customers (and Vendors) are considered > "companies", and the UI is designed with that in mind. There is now a > tooltip that will inform you that you should set the company name and > contact name the same to get the invoice system to treat it as an > individual. > > Also, gnucahs does not have the concept of "families"... There is no > way to group a bunch of customers together into a single bill. One > way you COULD do it is to use the patient's name as the "company name" > and the family name as the "contact name". It's a kludge, but it's > probably the closest you'll get.. > > The business features were written for me to use with my consulting > company... I tried to generalize it, but you know how it goes. :) > > > I am a small part of a group building medical software (gnumed) and we will > > eventually be needing gnucash for the other part of our daily work. > > Ok... Not sure what this means, but ok.. :) > > > Liz > > -derek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
