On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM sunfish62--- via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> Selecting accounts in even a moderately complex set of books can be > tedious and error-prone. Add in the fact that new accounts in a tree that > was previously fully selected won't get added automatically, > I'm tossing in my agreement in with this -- I keep the books for a small nonprofit, and in order to make short work of our annual tax letters, I create a separate account for each donor. Income:Contributions:Persons:LastName1 ...LastName2 ...LastName3 etc. AS A CONSEQUENCE, about a third of my monthly saved reports in GnuCash have an annotation to me in the report name -- "Select Children" -- to remind me to go into the report configuration every month, click the accounts, click the "select chlidren" button and then save the report definition. Whenever a new person gives to the organization, I create an account, but if I forget to redefine the reports, I can miss seeing that person's contributions. Fortunately for me, it's easy to see the un-selected accounts in the report's account selector, so once I open the account selector, I don't have to guess if I've missed any. It would be really great if I could define reports INCLUDING a permanent "select children" designation for a top level account. If another report has the inverse (all accounts are selected by default and the report allows me to persistently turn off details of accounts I DON'T want to see), that would work, too. I cannot think of a GnuCash report that works that way, but I would be happy to be proven wrong. P.S.: Yes, I know there are OTHER ways to record the books without creating a separate account for each person, but after a few experiments a few years ago, I chose that strategy. I plan to advise my successor in the pros and cons of that choice, and that person may choose to redo the books differently. > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
