Hi Christine, Glad to hear that you got sorted. Back to trying to solve your reports date issue - unless that was fixed by the upgrade?
Maf. On Saturday, 5 August 2017 00:41:44 BST Christine Maloney wrote: > Hi Maf > I followed your instructions and I am happy I have completely removed the > memo and it works well now. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maf. King [mailto:m...@chilwell.net] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 9:19 AM > To: Christine Maloney <cmalon...@talktalk.net> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: population > > Hi Christine, > > OK, so if you can see the "memo" boxes, then you are looking at a > splits-view of the transaction. That's fine, I shall do the same and tell > you exactly what I press to enter a new transaction in my bank account > register. > > I use auto-split double line as my default view settings, and for this I've > got Formal Account labels set, which I think you have too. > > From the Chart of Accounts view, I double-click to open my bank account > register, and the view switches to show it. > > The Date field of a new transaction is already selected. I press minus > twice to enter a transaction from 2 days ago. > > TAB -> num field. Leave blank. > TAB -> Description field. Type TestTransaction TAB -> New Row, Notes field. > Type TestNote (won't be visible in single line view) > TAB -> New Row, Action field (was num, but the heading has changed) LEave > Blank TAB -> 1st Memo. Type test1 TAB -> Account. Already shows bank > account. leave it as is. TAB -> Debit. Leave blank > TAB -> Credit. Type 1.00 > TAB -> New Row, Action. leave blank > TAB -> Memo. Type test2 > TAB -> Account. Type Expenses > TAB -> Debit already filled with 1.00. Leave it. > TAB -> Credit. leave blank > TAB -> new row, action, leave blank > ENTER -> Transaction remains in bank account register in the correct place > in date order. > > what happens if you follow the exact sequence above? If it differs, please > explain clearly in terms like above, press such-and-such, click here etc. > > If you don't want to see the memo lines, then you'll have to go to the View > Menu, and select "Basic Ledger", but if you ever need to enter a > transaction with more than 2 splits, you'll see them anyway (all > transactions in GC have at least 2 splits (to 2 accounts)). > > HTH, > Maf. > > On Friday, 4 August 2017 00:14:39 BST Christine Maloney wrote: > > I am not able to add anything to the credit/debit columns I can only > > add entries to the memo lines which I do not even want there. The > > version is > > 2.6.17 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maf. King [mailto:m...@chilwell.net] > > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 5:51 PM > > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org; Christine Maloney > > <cmalon...@talktalk.net> > > Subject: Re: population > > > > On Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:01:22 BST Christine Maloney via > > gnucash-user > > > > wrote: > > > When I add the small amount of £1.00 the system takes it in the memo > > > entries, but when I press enter it disappears from the system. > > > > Hi, > > > > Only press Enter if you are ready to commit a transaction to the register. > > Tab to move between all the various fields for data. > > > > If you are putting a 1.00 in the memo, then what are you putting in > > the transfer account and Credit/Debit/Deposit/Withdrawal etc columns? > > > > Which version of GC have you installed, so as to be more stable than > > what you had previously? > > > > Maf. > > > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > http://www.avg.com > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 -- Maf. King PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
