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== Available Documentation ==
 
== Available Documentation ==

Revision as of 06:05, 29 May 2017

This is a sandbox page created to work on possible changes to the Wiki Home page, which is limited in its editing. For a discussion about this, see [Landing Page].

Available Documentation

Official GnuCash Documentation

GnuCash offers two major pieces of documentation:

  • [Help Manual] - a quick reference manual for specific tasks, and
  • [Tutorial and Concepts Guide] - an in-depth guide to the concepts. It is highly recommended to read at least the first chapters of the guide.

For the latest documentation (i.e., unstable releases of the documentation), or to get documentation for other languages or earlier releases, see the [[1]] page on the GnuCash.org website {link}.

GnuCash Wikis

(Parts of) this wiki have been translated into other languages or contain information for one specific language only.

The GnuCash FAQ

The GnuCash FAQ contains the collection of frequently asked questions about GnuCash, including administration, accounting, and glossary questions.

Using GnuCash

Using GnuCash collects real life experiences using GnuCash. You may find (user) solutions here that are not covered by the documentation.

The Wiki Glossary

The Wiki Glossary explains some often used terms, with additional terms useful for developers, documentation writers, and translators.

More Specific Topics

Here is a section of helpful tips that no one could be bothered to find a better place for>

External Documentation Resources

These resources are one created by users of GnuCash. They may be useful.

Installation

Installation instructions for the different operating systems under which GnuCash operates are included below.

Linux

Windows

Mac OS X

Other Operating Systems

Support Options

If you read the relevant parts of the pages above and are still stuck with a problem or only wish to give some feedback, you can contact us in several ways.

Current discussions

Mailing Lists

Most users will probably contact the GnuCash user community through the appropriate language user mailing list (gnucash-user, gnucash-de, gnucash-nl, gnucash-it, gnucash-es, gnucash-fr, gnucash-br). Additional information can be found at Mailing Lists.

IRC Chat

Some users may wish to use IRC chat, usually in english, as the quickest way to get answers.

External support pages

These external support sites have subsections related to Gnucash. They are not maintained by the gnucash team, so there is no guarantee on the correctness of the information you will find here.

  • Stack Exchange includes a forum on money with "gnucash" tagged questions.

Feature requests and bug tracking

  • Bugzilla. GnuCash's bug database for error reports and enhancement requests.
  • Forum. For more general feature requests.

In addition, there is an old WishList on this wiki that users can consult. While this list is not maintained or monitored, users can see some of the things that have been requested in the past.

Third party tools

Several users have published tools to work with Gnucash.

Developing for GnuCash

You may want to check out http://www.gnucash.org/ for the latest news.

This part of the wiki is intended to become the main repository of GnuCash developer documentation. Some formerly static pages have been moved here from the Website http://www.gnucash.org, but the move is not yet complete. Some remaining static pages may be out of date. Wherever a wiki article disagrees with a static web page on the Website, the wiki article here is more likely to be correct.

Getting involved in the project

The GnuCash Project is a volunteer-driven organization. We need your help to survive and grow, to help others and to help the Project. There are many ways to contribute your knowledge and experience. Contributing to GnuCash identifies a number of ways to get involved. Below are general ways.

Mailing Lists

Subscribing to the mailing lists, and asking and answering questions there, is an excellent way to begin contributing the the success of GnuCash. See Mailing Lists for more.

Filing Bugs and Enhancement Requests

Occasionally, GnuCash will not work the way it was designed to work--or you have an idea for making GnuCash better. Improvements and fixes can be submitted using the Bugzilla bug tracker; more general suggestions can be made via the [2] pages.

Developing the Documentation

Translating the Documentation

Developing the Application Code

Policy

Procedures

  • Git access
  • Building GnuCash from source code.
  • Notes about the Graphical User Interface aka GUI
  • Some notes about the GnuCash XML format for the XML Backend.
  • The schema for the SQL Backend.

Other Development Notes

Future developments

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