From GnuCash

GnuCash's menus and dialogs, mapped to red-ale methods.

  • Accounts and the Actions menuGnuCash'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.
  • Business menuGnuCash's Business menu mapped to methods - Customers, Vendors, Employees, Jobs, Invoices, Bills, Expense Vouchers, Process Payment, due reminders, Sales Tax Tables and Billing Terms. Find windows are list methods; printing is report.run.
  • File menu and the New File assistantGnuCash's File menu mapped to methods - File > New File is book.create, Open is book.open, Save is book.save, Revert is book.close with discard, Export is the export methods, Properties is book.options. There is no Save As, no Print and no Account templates.
  • Import and exportGnuCash's File > Import and File > Export mapped to methods - QIF, CSV transactions, accounts, prices, bills and invoices, and customers and vendors through import.preview and import.apply; exports through the export methods. OFX, QFX, MT940 and the AqBanking formats are not supported.
  • Not in red-aleWhat GnuCash does that red-ale does not, and what to do instead - the GUI, online banking, OFX and the AqBanking formats, Finance::Quote, PDF export, MySQL and PostgreSQL books, the Python and Guile interfaces, and the business and tax reports that are not ported.
  • Preferences and book optionsGnuCash's Edit > Preferences become Configuration settings read with config.get and changed with config.set; File > Properties (Book Options) become book.options and book.setOptions, with counters in counter.list and counter.set. Preferences about windows, registers and printing have no counterpart.
  • Reports menu and the report windowGnuCash's Reports menu mapped to report names for report.run, and the report window's File and Edit menus mapped to report.saveConfiguration, report.export and report.styleSheets. The business and tax reports that are not ported are written as User reports.
  • Stock assistantsActions > Stock Split is stock.split. The Stock Transaction assistant (Buy, Sell, Dividend, Return of Capital, Notional Distribution, Reverse Split) is not provided; each of its transactions is a transaction.post, and the recipes below say how.
  • Tools, scheduled transactions and budgetsGnuCash's Tools menu and the Actions submenus for scheduled transactions and budgets mapped to methods - Find, General Journal, Price Database, Security Editor, Close Book, Lots, Import Map Editor, Since Last Run, Scheduled Transaction Editor, the loan assistant and Budget. The Loan Repayment Calculator and Online Banking Setup are not provided.
  • Transaction menu and the registerGnuCash's register and Transaction menu mapped to methods - entering a Transaction is transaction.post, the Transfer dialog is transaction.transfer, and Void, Unvoid, Reverse, Delete, Duplicate, document links and the register's columns each have a method or a stated replacement.
  • Windows and registersGnuCash's main windows mapped to methods - the Account tree window is account.tree, an Account register is transaction.list and transaction.post, the Reconcile window is reconcile.*, and the report, scheduled transaction, budget and business windows are their own methods. Tabs, toolbars and summary bars have no counterpart.