I just played with toggling that preference back and forth and as I do so, the ’New Invoice’ button appears and disappears accordingly. It seems this is the only button affected unless there is a special toolbar somewhere I’m not triggering. (when viewing a bill/invoice there are 2 ’New Invoice’ buttons, one is the generic version, the other is tied to the same ‘current owner’ of the viewed bill/invoice - that one doesn’t toggle.)
The Business menu remains visible in all cases. Certainly, if one needs to manually manage A/R or A/P or not even use them, those features would be nice to hide. I don’t think there is any danger posed however by their visibility or existence unless one tries to both use those features *and* manually make transactions in those special accounts. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:21 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Back in 2014 I used to think that going to Edit > Preferences > Business and > checking Enable Extra Buttons was about enabling business features, but I was > told then that it is only about adding some un-named buttons on some menus > that were never documented. I agree that there should be a feature to turn > off business features for those of us that don't use them, because sometimes > they cause grief if accidentally or ignorantly activated. > > David Carlson > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Thanks David, > > I was looking for that the other day and somehow glanced over it. Indeed, it > is still there in 3.4. (about to install 3.5 shortly) I suppose, then, since > preferences are user rather than book based that’s why the buttons were > already there. I didn’t try to start GC from a fresh user perspective. I’d > have to try an old copy of 2.6, but I seem to recall this being labeled as > ‘enable business features’ (which also added the special accounts and added > the Business menu) not just ‘enable extra buttons’, but my memory could be > faulty. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 7:33 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > So far none of you have mentioned going to Edit > Preferences > Business > > and checking Enable Extra Buttons. Back in the Release 2.6.xx days that > > was necessary to even see the buttons to create invoices or whatever that I > > have never looked for because I was not using them. > > > > David Carlson > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:39 PM Adrien Monteleone > > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 3:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-user > > > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > > > > Oh. Let me go to nabble to figure out that you're replying to my post... > > > now, having closed all the spammy windows for super resume... > > > > Or just use e-mail instead of Nabble? (or I’m sure something like uBlock > > Origin could zap those windows before they come into existence) > > > > > Having the new account assistant create a specific set of accounts IN NO > > > WAY is "enabling business features." It's just a bunch of accounts. The > > > features are always "enabled." We might as well speak of "enabling" > > > double entry features in Gnucash when we open a register in transaction > > > view. > > > It is convenient, to be sure, to have these accounts created for me, but > > > this is in no way something in preferences, as was implied in the message > > > to which I was responding. > > > There is NO special setting. To quote Monty Python, there is NO severed > > > head beneath the bed. > > > David T. > > > > I just opened a new file, chose the default ‘common accounts’ which did not > > include A/R and A/P and sure enough, the “Business” menu is visible as was > > the “New Invoice” button. (I didn’t go through the trouble of creating an > > invoice or bill and seeing what would happen) > > > > This was not always the case, certainly not at some point in the 2.6 > > series. I distinctly remember having to ‘enable business features’ to both > > get the Business menu as well as making the New Invoice button visible. I > > think doing so also created the special A/R and A/P accounts in my tree. > > > > Perhaps the business features which were originally an add-on module were > > finally integrated into the main program at some point. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > _______ > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > -- > David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
