Setting FUND instead of CURRENCY: problem 3/3

[Derek Atkins]

"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

>     First the simple truth: I've never changed this option. Now that I know
>     of it, I was able to select the funds. So, thank you for pointing this
>     out to me.
>    
>     But the question remains: Why did I make this mistake? I simply had this

Probably because you didn't read the documentation.  But GnuCash did
prevent you from hurting yourself by not letting you set the account
commodity to a non-currency.

>     To prevent users from selecting the general type for an account instead
>     of the subtype, would it be worth having some accounts types _not_ show
>     up as valid options? Or, specifically to my case, would not having only
>     cash
>     bank
>     shares/stock
>     fund
>     claims/bills-I-sent-to-others
>     assets(not Aktiva but hard to sell stuff like machinery)
>     show up been better?
>
> If I use "Asset" for the parent account type, then the types allowed for
> subaccounts is restricted to the list you've given plus "Credit Card" and "A/
> P" (bills to be paid). Those last two don't seem to make sense - I would think
> that these would only be allowed under a "Liability" parent. But perhaps some
> flexibility is allowed.

Correct.  GnuCash lumps accounts into three categories:
Asset/Liability, Income/Expense, and Equity.  Parents/Children can
only be in the same category (although in some cases some account
types limit the children types even further).

>     If I'd phrase this as a suggestion where would I need to post this?
>     (Or am I again overlooking some simple why it is a bad idea?)
>
> Once you've decided that it's appropriate, bug reporting and enhancement
> requests should go to Bugzilla.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash

Although at this point I haven't seen an actual bug, just a user not
understanding how to setup GnuCash.   The only bug I'm aware of is
that the New Hierarchy Druid allows you to create a Stock or Mutual
fund account without resetting the commodity to a non-currency.  But
I believe we already have a bugzilla entry for that.

> Cheers,
> Charles

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-derek

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