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Bug 547386 - Help text for Employee section missing
Help text for Employee section missing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Documentation
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Chris Lyttle
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-12 05:46 UTC by David Muir
Modified: 2018-06-29 22:08 UTC
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Description David Muir 2008-08-12 05:46:59 UTC
Documentation 
Section: Concepts Guide -> Payroll
No help section for New Employee

There's a concepts guide for Payroll (which doesn't use the built in employee feature), but no specific help for the actual menu entries.

Clicking on the help icon in the New Employee form, gives help for "Account Tab Display" positioned at section 4.2.1.5. This just gives a fairly redundant overview of the menu entries, but doesn't tell me anything about the data fields in the "New Employee" form.

Correct version:
Payroll section in concepts guide should be updated to show how to use the built in Business->Employee module.

Help text needed for New Employee form. (yes, most of it is self explanatory, but some entries are not very obvious, such as "Username", "Credit Account" and "Language".

Other information:
Comment 1 David Muir 2008-08-12 05:48:37 UTC
Forgot to mention, that I've checked the current documentation nightly, and the problem exists there too.
Comment 2 R Ratliff 2013-12-10 20:34:52 UTC
I propose adding a section 4.8.4 to the help entitled "Creating and editing employees." It would give the following information:

- New employee
  - menu options and toolbar buttons for creating a new employee (To create a new employee, Click <button foo>)
  - Which fields are required when creating a new employee
  - Mention that an Employee ID will be generated if none is specified
- Edit existing employee
  - leave this as a skeleton for now
- Mention that Employees can have vouchers, but leave this section as a skeleton for now (maybe a separate bug report could be created later)
Comment 3 Cristian Marchi 2014-02-01 21:09:20 UTC
I've created the employee section in the GnuCash help. The changes are in rev. 23784. The new employee section is also linked to the "help" button in the new employee window.
Comment 4 John Ralls 2018-06-29 22:08:35 UTC
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