Accounts and the Actions menu
GnuCash's Edit and Actions menus for Accounts mapped to methods - New Account, Edit Account, Delete Account, Cascade, Renumber Subaccounts, Transfer, Reconcile, Auto clear, Check and Repair, View Lots. Find Account, Open Account and the New Account Hierarchy assistant have no counterpart.
The Account tree window's Edit and Actions menus are about Accounts. Scheduled transactions, budgets, stock splits and the other assistants are on Tools and scheduled transactions and Stock assistants.
Edit menu
| GnuCash | red-ale |
|---|---|
| Edit Account | account.update: name, type, commodity, code, description, notes, placeholder, hidden, colour, tax flag, balance limits, associated Accounts. A type may change only to a compatible one when the Account has Splits. account.get reads what is there |
| Delete Account... | account.delete. An Account with Transactions needs a choice: delete them (whole Transactions go) or moveTo another Account of the same type. The same for a sub-account, of which at most one is allowed. GnuCash, given no choice, deletes the Splits and leaves Imbalance ones; red-ale never does |
| Cascade Account Properties... | account.cascade: colour, placeholder or hidden on an Account and all below it |
| Renumber Subaccounts... | account.renumber: a prefix, an interval and a number of digits |
| Find Account | account.list or account.tree, filtered by you |
| Open Account, Open Subaccount | transaction.list for that Account and a date range; for its sub-accounts too, list each. account.balance gives its balance, with includeSubaccounts for the subtree's |
| Find... | transaction.find |
| Cut, Copy, Paste | Not provided. Move an Account with account.move |
| Preferences, Style Sheets | From GnuCash: Preferences and book options, Reports |
| Tax Report Options | account.update with taxRelated and the US tax-code fields. The flag and codes are kept so GnuCash's tax reports still work on the book; red-ale has no tax report |
Actions menu
| GnuCash | red-ale |
|---|---|
| New Account... | account.create. Give name, type and commodity; parent defaults to the root. openingBalance adds the opening balance Transaction against the opening-balance Account (account.openingBalanceAccount). It also takes the Account's SCU, notes, colour, balance limits and the Accounts it remembers for dividends and gains |
| New Account Hierarchy... | Not provided. There are no Account templates (File menu) |
| Transfer... | transaction.transfer, with a rate or toAmount when the Accounts' Commodities differ |
| Reconcile... | reconcile.start, reconcile.status, reconcile.finish and reconcile.postpone: see Reconciliation |
| Auto clear... | reconcile.findAutoClear, then reconcile.autoClear |
| Stock Split... | stock.split: see Stock assistants |
| View Lots... | lot.list, lot.get; see Tools |
| Check & Repair > Check & Repair Account | scrub.checkAndRepair with account |
| Check & Repair > Check & Repair Subaccounts | The same with subaccounts: true |
| Check & Repair > Check & Repair All | The same with no Account |
| Reset Warnings... | Not provided. red-ale asks nothing |
| Rename Page | Not provided |
| Online Actions (Get Balance, Get Transactions, Issue SEPA Transaction...) | Not supported. See Not in red-ale |
| Scheduled Transactions, Budget | Tools and scheduled transactions |
Check & Repair runs only when you ask. GnuCash also scrubs a book as it loads; red-ale does not
(Imbalance, orphans and scrubs). Add lots: true to include the Lot scrub. Each repair is
reported in repairs.
Other things the New Account dialog did
| GnuCash | red-ale |
|---|---|
| Security/Currency Select... | commodity as USD or NASDAQ::AAPL; make a new security first with commodity.create (Commodities and currencies) |
| Get Online Quotes (on a security) | quoteFlag and quoteSource on the Commodity; see Prices and exchange rates |
| Placeholder, Hidden | placeholder, hidden |
| Show hidden accounts, Filter by... | excludeHidden on account.list and account.tree |