DELT's APIs

The source code of DELT, the application on which the website learndoubleentry.org is built, is enriched by some comments that make the generation of documentation quite easy.

A zip file of the whole APIs is generated periodically. If you are interested, please contact delt.project@gmail.com for having the file shared with you.

Comments on single double entry lines

It is now possible to add comments to the single double entry lines (postings). You just need to add a hash tag (#) in the input box where the code and the name of the account are, and a comment after it.

The comments will appear in brackets and emphasized in the single lines of the journal and in the ledger.

LearnDoubleEntry.org su WiildOs

Con l'avvio dell'anno scolastico 2013/14, la versione 4.0 di WiildOs, predisposta in maniera aperta e collaborativa dal LITSA, è in distribuzione su web e, presso i supermercati COOP del Trentino, anche su DVD-rom direttamente alla cassa.

Si tratta di una distribuzione Linux specificatamente pensata per la didattica, in particolare mediante l'uso delle lavagne digitali a basso costo ottenibili con software libero e hardware semplice.

Nella sezione Lavoro / Ufficio si trova un link a LearnDoubleEntry.org, per chi vuole partire da lì per le esercitazioni contabili.

September 2013's newsletter

We made some improvements on the website and on the code behind it, so we'd like you to know about the new features.

1. BLOG

We opened a blog that we kept updated with the most important new features.
It is available at http://blog.learndoubleentry.org/.

2. SAMPLE EXERCISES

In the blog, we posted some sample exercises, that can be used as a reference to what is possible to do. We'll post other ones soon.
You can find them at http://blog.learndoubleentry.org/search/label/exercise.

3. HANDBOOK

The sample exercises and other information are linked at http://learndoubleentry.org/site/en/handbook as a sort of preliminary handbook.

4. NEW FEATURES

We introduced some new (hopefully interesting) new features in the last months:

a) for every firm, you can now select the languages that you want your account names in;

b) it is now possible to share a firm with another user, in order to complete an exercise together, if needed;

c) you can fork (duplicate) every firm of which you know the slug (see terminology, later);

d) you can get a "transaction analysis" of each journal entry (see http://blog.learndoubleentry.org/2013/07/explanation-of-journal-entries.html);

e) it is now possible to include or exclude some journal entries, in order to test different scenarios, if needed (seehttp://blog.learndoubleentry.org/2013/08/include-or-exclude-journal-entries.html);

f) you can take a snapshot of a firm's current balances, or prepare a closing entry of selected accounts (seehttp://blog.learndoubleentry.org/2013/08/taking-snapshot-of-firms-current.html);

g) you can select an account from a tree view window, if you don't know the name or the code of the account (seehttp://blog.learndoubleentry.org/2013/08/choosing-accounts-with-tree-view.html);

h) when you prepare a journal entry, the totals of debits and credits is updated every time you leave an amount field;

i) when a user signs up, he/she can ask to be resent the activation link, in case it got lost.

5. TERMINOLOGY

We prepared a blog post explaining the meaning of some of the terms we used. It is avalaible athttp://blog.learndoubleentry.org/2013/07/notes-about-terminology.html.

6. BUG FIXES

Many minor bugs have been fixed. Thanks to the users that let us know about them!

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We really hope that you may find LearnDoubleEntry.org useful for your exercises, and we'd love to receive some feedback from you. Any ideas on how to improve the website will be greatly welcomed. And, please, feel free to spread the word and invite other people to sign up.

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Choosing accounts with the tree view

Version 1.0.13 of DELT is out, and with it the possibility of choosing an account in a tree view of the Chart of Accounts.

To activate the tree view pop-up window, you just need to double-click on the account name field.

Taking a snapshot of a firm's current balances

Version 1.0.12 of DELT is online, and with it some new interesting features:

• it is now possible to select some of the journal entries and delete them together, without going through the "edit / delete / confirm" cycle;
• the trial balance has now two different columns for the outstanding balance (one for net debit and one for net credit);
• from the trial balance page, it is possible to select some accounts (or all of them, if you want), in order to prepare a journal entry to close them or to open them with the current outstanding balances.

The last thing allows you to take a snapshot of your firm's current situation. And since forking a firm is so simple, you can open a second firm by just using the balances of the first.

Include or exclude journal entries

It is now possible to exclude some journal entries from all computations, more or less like when showing or hiding different layers in computer graphics programs.

Since LearnDoubleEntry.org is a learning platform, this opens up the possibility to test different scenarios, or simply to prepare a journal entry to ask somebody help for.

Excluded journal entries are listed in the journal in gray with a line-through decoration. The amounts of the postings are not considered in the ledger, in the trial balance and in the financial statement.