Eric AFAIK you can do this by making a payment of less than the due amount from one account and then makea second (or more) payment from another account to the same invoice - just cant do it in a single step.
David Cousens On Sun, 2022-08-07 at 19:17 +0000, Eric Hammond wrote: > Thanks again to all who answered my two part question (next time I will make > it two separate questions...) > > Frank, I already have that selected. The problem is not how transactions are > entered or displayed. > If I am entering a manual transaction, I can add any number of splits no > problem. > The issue is specifically with the Bill, or Invoice, "Process Payment" form > which only allows one payment amount, and one transfer account (from the > account tree). > If I bypass the "Process Payment" by using manual transactions the Bill or > Invoice is not closed. > > All the best, > Eric Hammond > > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 06:19:40 +0200 > From: "Frank H. Ellenberger" <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> > To: Eric Hammond <e...@jehammond.net>, "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash > Message-ID: <1e0d8ed8-6ba0-b5b8-4190-8664b349f...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Am 07.08.22 um 03:04 schrieb Eric Hammond: > > The second is the ability to pay bills from more than one source. Example I > > purchase an oscilloscope and pay for it with a cash incentive from the > > company and a bank transfer for the rest. My solution at the present is not > > pretty, nor helpful if I look at it next year. > > Then it's time to claim your easter egg ;-): > Edit->Peeferences->Register Defaults, > select Default Style: "Auto-Split ledger" or "Transaction Journal" > > More details in > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html#prefs-reg-def > > Then you can easily enter the differnt amounts. > > Regards > Frank > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 17:44:36 +1000 > From: flywire <flywi...@gmail.com> > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash > Message-ID: > <CAOthWL0tL=4ivF+1s=6fu_maq6nqfuu1mak3m-zt_f6p1uu...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > More cat skinning: > > > * the ability to have two separate (at least) GnuCash file systems: > * > > In Windows (or probably any GUI) double-click file in data folder and it > will use file association to open the file (in GnuCash). > > Alternatively, for each file: right-click file, create a shortcut, drag > shortcut to desktop. Same as above from desktop. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 06:28:50 -0500 > From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > Message-ID: > <cafmgiz8tcnprm2vku57ef0axvdzgv8bvu0i-7wyz+mvva7u...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 21:25 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:37 AM > > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 08:51 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > .., > > > > Can you copy the text out of the pdf statement? > > > > > > > > Getting "organized" text programmatically out of PDF is a giant pain. My > > current approach is almost completely programmatic. BTW, Raku is the > > "sister" language of Perl, and it is a "scripting" language. > > > > > > > > Raku can also use Perl modules so I can use Finance::Quote with it if need > > be. But, until I can get the bank data working, I won't be needing it. > > > > > > > > Thanks, Chris. > > > > > > > > -Tom > > > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > > > I was actually suggesting you just highlight the transactions in the pdf > > statement and copy/paste them into a > > > > spreadsheet or text file before using a scripting language to reformat them > > but if you can programmatically > > extract the text that would be better long term. > > But I did see Peter West's warning about checking results > carefully--it's not always the expected result. Although I hope the > products from the same source are consistent enough to make it > reasonably fool proof. (See my comments below.) > > > I notice with my PDF statement that (free) Adobe Acrobat DC no longer allows > > me to select text (as they want me to pay for a fancy tool - BOO) but if you > > send the pdf to Edge or Chrome you can select just the transaction text. > > Yes, I now see my "PDF COmplete" on Windows can do that--I never > thought of doing that until now. > > > Thanks for the info re Raku. > > You're welcome! I'm always happy for programmers to learn about Raku > > > Finance::Quote is just for getting stock prices from websites (usually) so > > not useful for this task. > > Right, but good to know for later. > > > Are you sure you cannot export transactions from your bank? All mine do > > although sometimes it is hard to find. > > Yes, and I agree it's sometimes hard to find. Yesterday I did find one > bank (the bank I'm leaving) does have two choices of download for the > credit card: CSV and OFX. That is very helpful for working on a > transformation algorithm. I did look at the PDF to text transformation > on one of the new bank's statements (definitely nothing but PDFs) and > it looks surprisingly usable, so that's exciting. > > I was too hasty in my outright condemnation of PDF to text because I > had worked on a project with a PDF expert to generate PDF as a native > file and saw how easy it is to get things out of place. I usually > create beautiful, and accurate, PDFs by writing the PostScript code > and relying on Ghostscript's ps2pdf converter. Thus going backwards in > the workflow is a little different for my longtime mindset. > > Best regards, > > -Tom > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:57:10 +0100 > From: "Fred Bone" <f...@mandfb.me.uk> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 16 > Message-ID: <62ef9a86.28284.2f1a9...@fred.mandfb.me.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On 06 August 2022 at 19:48, James Baxter said: > > > I am James Baxter email kangaroo52@yahoo.comas i found this next part and > > i am not good with Linux and Gnucash.org. I am looking to know how to > > place that code into this linux or where it is design to go. > > Kindly pay attention to: > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > and please trim your posts. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 16:12:54 +0300 > From: "David T." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com>, > Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > Message-ID: <046aba80-7c9c-4aaa-a29d-953442079...@yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I can't imagine having so many transactions that the time it took to program > the process would in the end save me time in doing the accounting. > > My method for processing pdf statements is to open the pdf statement in one > window and enter my transactions in GnuCash in another-- the old fashioned > way: by keying them in. This is remarkably quick in most cases, due to > autofill-- and it gives me a sanity check on the data that's getting input > (does that transaction look right?). It works pretty well for me. > > David T. > > > > On August 7, 2022 2:28:50 PM GMT+03:00, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 21:25 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:37 AM > > > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 08:51 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > .., > > > > > > Can you copy the text out of the pdf statement? > > > > > > > > > > > > Getting "organized" text programmatically out of PDF is a giant pain. My > > > current approach is almost completely programmatic. BTW, Raku is the > > > "sister" language of Perl, and it is a "scripting" language. > > > > > > > > > > > > Raku can also use Perl modules so I can use Finance::Quote with it if need > > > be. But, until I can get the bank data working, I won't be needing it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Chris. > > > > > > > > > > > > -Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > > > > > > > I was actually suggesting you just highlight the transactions in the pdf > > > statement and copy/paste them into a > > > > > > spreadsheet or text file before using a scripting language to reformat > > > them but if you can programmatically > > > extract the text that would be better long term. > > > > But I did see Peter West's warning about checking results > > carefully--it's not always the expected result. Although I hope the > > products from the same source are consistent enough to make it > > reasonably fool proof. (See my comments below.) > > > > > I notice with my PDF statement that (free) Adobe Acrobat DC no longer > > > allows me to select text (as they want me to pay for a fancy tool - BOO) > > > but if you send the pdf to Edge or Chrome you can select just the > > > transaction text. > > > > Yes, I now see my "PDF COmplete" on Windows can do that--I never > > thought of doing that until now. > > > > > Thanks for the info re Raku. > > > > You're welcome! I'm always happy for programmers to learn about Raku > > > > > Finance::Quote is just for getting stock prices from websites (usually) so > > > not useful for this task. > > > > Right, but good to know for later. > > > > > Are you sure you cannot export transactions from your bank? All mine do > > > although sometimes it is hard to find. > > > > Yes, and I agree it's sometimes hard to find. Yesterday I did find one > > bank (the bank I'm leaving) does have two choices of download for the > > credit card: CSV and OFX. That is very helpful for working on a > > transformation algorithm. I did look at the PDF to text transformation > > on one of the new bank's statements (definitely nothing but PDFs) and > > it looks surprisingly usable, so that's exciting. > > > > I was too hasty in my outright condemnation of PDF to text because I > > had worked on a project with a PDF expert to generate PDF as a native > > file and saw how easy it is to get things out of place. I usually > > create beautiful, and accurate, PDFs by writing the PostScript code > > and relying on Ghostscript's ps2pdf converter. Thus going backwards in > > the workflow is a little different for my longtime mindset. > > > > Best regards, > > > > -Tom > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > 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. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 09:25:27 -0400 > From: Glenn Fowler <gfowl...@outlook.com> > To: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > Cc: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com>, GnuCash users group > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > Message-ID: > < > sj0pr19mb44450340e5332d96385c00058f...@sj0pr19mb4445.namprd19.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Windows I would recommend Ocular which is a PDF viewer and light editor > that you can find in the Windows Store. Ocular allows copying text. > > Ocular is open source, ad free, and make by KDE so you won't have to worry > about them taking features away like mentioned with Adobe. > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2022, 7:28 AM Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 21:25 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:37 AM > > > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 08:51 Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > .., > > > > > > Can you copy the text out of the pdf statement? > > > > > > > > > > > > Getting "organized" text programmatically out of PDF is a giant pain. My > > current approach is almost completely programmatic. BTW, Raku is the > > "sister" language of Perl, and it is a "scripting" language. > > > > > > > > > Raku can also use Perl modules so I can use Finance::Quote with it if > > need be. But, until I can get the bank data working, I won't be needing it. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Chris. > > > > > > > > > > > > -Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > > > > > > > I was actually suggesting you just highlight the transactions in the pdf > > statement and copy/paste them into a > > > spreadsheet or text file before using a scripting language to reformat > > them but if you can programmatically > > > extract the text that would be better long term. > > > > But I did see Peter West's warning about checking results > > carefully--it's not always the expected result. Although I hope the > > products from the same source are consistent enough to make it > > reasonably fool proof. (See my comments below.) > > > > > I notice with my PDF statement that (free) Adobe Acrobat DC no longer > > allows me to select text (as they want me to pay for a fancy tool - BOO) > > but if you send the pdf to Edge or Chrome you can select just the > > transaction text. > > > > Yes, I now see my "PDF COmplete" on Windows can do that--I never > > thought of doing that until now. > > > > > Thanks for the info re Raku. > > > > You're welcome! I'm always happy for programmers to learn about Raku > > > > > Finance::Quote is just for getting stock prices from websites (usually) > > so not useful for this task. > > > > Right, but good to know for later. > > > > > Are you sure you cannot export transactions from your bank? All mine do > > although sometimes it is hard to find. > > > > Yes, and I agree it's sometimes hard to find. Yesterday I did find one > > bank (the bank I'm leaving) does have two choices of download for the > > credit card: CSV and OFX. That is very helpful for working on a > > transformation algorithm. I did look at the PDF to text transformation > > on one of the new bank's statements (definitely nothing but PDFs) and > > it looks surprisingly usable, so that's exciting. > > > > I was too hasty in my outright condemnation of PDF to text because I > > had worked on a project with a PDF expert to generate PDF as a native > > file and saw how easy it is to get things out of place. I usually > > create beautiful, and accurate, PDFs by writing the PostScript code > > and relying on Ghostscript's ps2pdf converter. 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