semantics of importer account_id

2015-10-29 Thread G. Paul Ziemba
I'd like to highlight [what I claim to be] a design issue with the way the importer handles onlind IDs, propose two possible solutions, and solicit further opinions on the validity of these points as well as alternate ideas/approaches. Some relevant files for anyone following along: gnucash/s

Investment/Advanced Portfolio Sorting and Layout Options

2015-10-29 Thread David T.
Hi, For various reasons, I manage a set of books that includes separate stock holdings in different brokerage accounts. In other words, at E*Trade, we own 5 shares of IBM, while at ScottTrade we own 15 shares of IBM, and at Trade Station, another 10 shares. Consequently, each holding is in a se

Github repositories: gnucash-on-osx and gnucash-htdocs-old

2015-10-29 Thread John Ralls
The gnucash-htdocs-old repository on github has been deleted. This is the one that held the gnucash website before we split out the documentation into a separate repository. There were a few forks of it on github, and the owners of those forks should delete them as well. If for some bizarre reas

Some requests for changes to documentation of Help Manual.

2015-10-29 Thread David Carlson
1. The English version of the Help manual Table 4.7 calls the sixth button "General Journal". In the English version of the actual program it is "General Ledger". I recall that there was some reason for using one of those names instead of the other, but the reason escapes me at the moment. Whiche