Wm Diagrams are up https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. The wkiki markup is crude but works. I will try later to implement a scroll box to better accommodate narrow width monitors and mobile devices. Geert pointed out a few corrections re what are merely labels for locations and what are actual definable environmental variables which are now incorporated.
The original text on the wiki did not distinguish too clearly between what were labels for locations and what can be actually set as locations. It was there but obscure. In the diagrams these are distinguished as clearly as I am able to. On Linux at least those environment variables (not the ones which are merely labels) are not created on installation. They can be and then GnuCash should use the locations defined by them (I haven't verified this mainly because I don't have the need to use it). In principle at least you could define GNC_DATA_HOME and GNC_CONFIG_HOME to point to the book location or a subdirectories of the directory containing the book. >The problem with the gnc code for transition is that it placed no value >on who accessed it first. Why would it? GC is not designed as a multiuser program for a multiuser environment. It has no user structure to define authorization levels and no code to restrict access to specific functionality. While there is perhaps an ambition to move in this direction longer term, it is nowhere near there yet. Admittedly the release notes for V3 only obliquely mention the relocation of the user configuration location and that in hindsight should perhaps have been highlighted more. But it came up pretty quickly in the forum http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-Saved-Report-Configurations-Missing-After-Upgrade-to-v3-td4700786.html#a4700793 along with the cure of renaming saved-reports-2.4 to saved-reports-2.8 in the new directory. >The place was identifiable relative to the book. 3.x changed that. To a place which is also identifiable relative to the book. The changes going to V3 also make it possible (at least in principle) to co-locate the configuration with the book by defining GNC_DATA_HOME and GNC_CONFIG_HOME which was not possible under V2.6. Again you missed the point that the Save and Save As options in the reports toolbar and menu don't or at least shouldn't save the report per se, but save only the configuration information for a report. What level of personal information gets saved in the configuration is not clear to me. I can conceive of a situation where a number of books use a stock standard account heirarchy and one configures a report to depend on that heirarchy but if account guids are incorporated this becomes of limited usefulness wrt the ability to transfer reports. The report configuration should not contain the information directly and only have pointers to locate the information which is contained only in the book. Is that not the case? David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
