Very happy about the reports and tags. Yes, I always take backups (and backups of backups). Dad used to design hardware for telephone switching systems that absolutely had to work, and Mom was an inaugural member of the 8-hours-lost club with 5-1/4 floppies. The first computer I bought for myself (early Mac) was really stupid when you saved a file. It started by deleting the current copy! Also, my husband programs financial software.
So, yes, I keep multiple, labeled backups, and assume any equipment will start smoking at any time. On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 12:07, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > On Apr 26, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Cricket Onebit <cricketbeauti...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Also, for this particular example, I’d opt for tags for each kid instead > of accounts, see below about Cars. > > > > I didn't think GNUCash supported tags. I plan to use #tagone in a text > field. That's one of the things I need to do in Quicken. Search for each > transaction using a label, and put it in a text field. Problem: The text > fields are short. Maybe I'll create accounts/categories for each tag, and > add a $0.01 line. That will at least preserve the info. Then in GC edit > again to put the tags in a text field and undo the $0.01 split. (Not $0 > because I think Quicken ignores $0 lines.) > > > > There’s no official ’tag’ support, but some reports let you filter based > on text in certain fields and you can use regular expressions if you like. > > > > > > > Does it also do that for a Transaction, Group by (sub-)account report? I > use that one a lot. There's probably something close enough. > > The Transaction Report does this by default. I currently have a report > open that is tracking my expenses at a Festival this weekend. I reload the > report each day and it show my transactions with sub-account totals for > amounts spent on Food, Beer, tips, etc. Each transaction has the festival > name in the Notes field and I’m using that as a ’tag’ filter. > > > > ++ > > > > Enough stalling. Today's goal is to replace all the investment accounts > with basic accounts. Apparently migrating investments isn't reliable. I > won't lose any data because I haven't tracked investment details in Quicken > in years. Also create appropriate income/loss accounts for the investment > accounts so the year-end balances work. And, of course, lots of pre/post > change reports to catch problems. > > > > Work on a copy of the export and if something blows up, you won’t lose > anything. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- +++ Not as a ladder from earth to Heaven, not as a witness to any creed, But simple service simply given to his own kind in their common need. -- Rudyard Kipling _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
