Concept Guide

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Road towards 2.0

This page is just a temporary page to keep track of the progress of the concept guide, as well as what needs to be done with it. Please feel free to add to it, with various thoughts and comments. Especially in things that needs to be clearer, or items that are missing etc.

Check out document

 svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk gnucash-docs

Review

Please read through the Conceptguide (on the web, or in SVN (se above)) and indicate on this wiki which areas need to be reworked, modified, deleted, added, or left unchanged.

We can use this wiki page to discuss what should be in the guide, and which examples. Later on, we can use the gnucash-devel list to send out the raw text for quick reviews

Updating the concept guide

Please co-ordinate and inform of your intentions on gnucash-devel as well as on this wiki.

  • Ensure you have the latest copy from subversion
    • svn update
  • Update the Wiki, Move the chapter to Ongoing work
  • Adding the following to the top of the chapter .xml file, so external tools handles the xml file better.
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
  • Add revision and your name to the authors block. See sample below
  
 <!--
      (Do not remove this comment block.)
  Version: 1.9.x
  Last modified: April 16th 2006
  Version: 1.8.4
  Last modified: April 10th 2004
  Maintainers: 
               Chris Lyttle <chris@wilddev.net>
  Author:
  		Jon Lapham <lapham@extracta.com.br>
  	Updated	Bengt Thuree <bengt@thuree.com>
  Originally written by Carol Champagne.
  Translators:
               (translators put your name and email here)
-->
  • Modify the xml file, and check the result with yelp
    • I am using scite as my editor, a plain editor like gedit, but it can "compress" the various tag pairs.
    • yelp ch_txns.xml
    • The XMLmind XML editor for Windows is free for personal use, and works fine. It also validates as well as clean up the XML code.
      • www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor
      • xmlmind do not fix the /> ending tag though.
  • Spell Check the document.
  • Clean up docbook tags
    • Ensure there is no "_" together with the id=" tag
    • Ensure that there is no "/>", but corresponding ending tag.
<para>Here is some text</para>
    • xmllint --valid --noout <chapter xml file>
  • Prepare a diff
    • xmlto -o /tmp txt <Modified chapter xml>.xml
    • rename /tmp/<chapter xml>.txt to /tmp/<chapter xml>.1.9.txt
    • xmlto -o /tmp txt <SVN chapter xml>.xml
    • rename /tmp/<chapter xml>.txt to /tmp/<chapter xml>.svn.txt
    • diff -u /tmp/<chapter xml>.svn.txt /tmp/<chapter xml>.1.9.txt
  • Double check that the svn version has not been modified.
  • I send the diff file, together with the XML file to the -devel list, since the pictures would be to large to send to a distribution list. The xml + pictures is send directly to Chris, and other interested parties after some time passed to let comments have a chance to filter back.
  • For screenshots
    • Ensure you are using the default Gnome theme (ClearLooks)
    • Make the screenshots as small as possible
    • Use GIMP to take the screen shots (Aquire with delay)
    • Use Gimp --> Image --> Scale to ensure the width is max 510 pixels.
    • Save screenshot as a png file.

Areas that need work

The following items have missing text in the existing guide, or just need more work

Ready for release

The following chapters have been review/modified and are ready for release

Ready for review

The following chapters have been modified and are ready for review

  • 1. Overview
  • 2. The Basics
  • 3. Accounts
  • 4. Transactions
  • 5. Checkbook
  • 6. Credit Cards
  • 8. Investments

Ongoing work

Remaining work

The below chapters have not been modified/checked since the 1.8 serie.

General

Personal

  • 9. Capital Gains
  • 10. Multiple Currencies

Business

  • 11. Depreciation
  • 12. Accounts Receivable
  • 13. Accounts Payable
  • 14. Payroll

Appendix

  • A. Migration Guide
  • B. Frequent Asked Questions (we need to update with the valid FQA)

Thoughts and comments

  • Budget
  • Reports -
    • Add a sub chapter in each chapter regarding to Reports valid to current chapter
    • Add a separate chapter with an overview of the current reports
  • Make examples with separate accounts for each stocks/brokearage income/expense, so we can track each stocks costs
  • Ensure the account structure and names follow the default convention (Change "Starting Values" to "Opening Balances" for instance)
  • One datafile per chapter, and the chapter has to explain how to create the datafile with all its entries.
  • If you have multiple bank accounts with one bank the following should be an example?
    • Asset:Bank:CitiBank:Saving
    • Asset:Bank:CitiBank:ATM
  • Multiple currencies
    • the business features are all currently single-currency reference
    • Equity:Opening Balance:USD
    • Equity:Opening Balance:AUD
    • Income:Saving:CitiBank:Interest (where CitiBank is all in USD)
    • Expenses:Bank:CitiBank:Interest (where CitiBank is all in USD)
    • Expenses:Bank:CitiBank:Charges (where CitiBank is all in USD)
    • Income:Saving:Boom:Interest:HKD (boom has one USD and one HKD account)
    • Income:Saving:Boom:Interest:USD (boom has one USD and one HKD account)
  • Investments
    • Verify Capital Gains/Dividens in reports. Details
    • When you create a commodity, you should also directly create the Dividend account
    • How to Add / Remove shares
    • How to move shares between brokerage accounts.
    • How to do imediate re-invest dividend
    • How to buy shares with NON-Default currency
      • Current workaround: Buy the shares from the BANK account, and right click on the stock purchase row and select "Edit Exchange Rate"
Default currency AUD (not HKD)
Commodity Stock_1
Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD
Assets:Brokerage Accounts:Boom:Stock_1
Expenses:Investments:Commission:Boom_HKD
Income:Investments:Dividend:Boom_HKD:Stock_1
Open Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD account
Buy Stocks 
                Assets:Banks:Boom:HKD                                   Withdrawal 10,000
                Expenses:Investments:Commission:Boom_HKD    Deposit 500
                Assets:Brokerage Accounts:Boom:Stock_1      Deposit 9,500
Right click on the last row, and select "Edit Exchange Data"
In the following pop up window, enter the actual number of stocks in the last entry box 
 (not the default entry box)
  • Assets
    • Personal loan to a friend (Assets:Money owed to you:<Friends name>)
    • Depreciation of private assets like Car and other items (house, horse etc)
  • QIF Import
    • Migrating from Quicken/Money
      • I think we need to come with more details on this area? (expand on 2.7. Importing QIF Files, and Appendix A)
    • Ensure that the numbers in the QIF file do not contain " " (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121443)
    • Sample of QIF file, and links to more samples
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