On Thursday 27 August 2015 09:30:25 John Ralls wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2015, at 12:59 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > John, > > > > I am moving this thread to Devel, since it has moved beyond typical > > user threads. > > > > Further digging in the Help Manual shows section "3.3. Import QIF > > Files," which explains that particular import process, but no > > other. I suspect the interest in putting this information here has > > to do with the fact that many newcomers to GnuCash will be > > importing their data from Quicken. However, I think it a little > > oddly placed and sadly alone (not to mention hard to find). > > > > Additional scanning in the Help Manual (I almost never use it, > > alas!) turns up "Chapter 6. Common Transaction Operations," under > > which a section on importing might be placed. > > > > As an aside, I will note that this chapter and Chapter 4 of the > > Tutorial include largely similar content, and I wonder which > > document would be the better repository for this information. > > Ultimately, I believe that one of these chapters should be merged > > into the other, and all reference elsewhere should go to the one > > spot. > > > > If a section on importing should be added to the Help Manual, I > > would propose putting it in chapter 6, moving 3.3 into it (with > > appropriate updates), and inserting a general note in 3.3 that > > discusses importing in general, and refers readers to the > > appropriate section in chapter 6. > > > > If instead, it should go into the Tutorial, I imagine it would go in > > either as a new section in Chapter 4, or as a separate chapter > > immediately after this chapter. > David, > > I think importing deserves it’s own chapter and don’t think that it > really fits in “Common Transaction Operations”. The latter implies to > me things one can do to a single transaction. > > I agree that we should have the importing information in only one > place, and I think that the Help manual is better than the T&CG. > > Since you’ve done a couple of patches for the docs already this month > (I’ll get to applying those when I get back this weekend unless Geert > beats me to it)
I'm pleased to beat you :) I had a free slot today to spend on it. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
