Megan, Perhaps it isn’t obvious that after selecting the account type you need to click the Select button in the Security/Currency row to get the Select security dialog box. One can’t have an account without an associated commodity. It would be a better UI design to disable the OK button when that field is empty, but the current code doesn’t do that.
Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 21, 2024, at 02:53, Megan Tilley <megan.til...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks John - I have moved a step forward, I think: > > > Open Tools>Security Editor ===> First thing is -- I thought you could only > select the suggest fund (which showed as Stocks to me), not create another in > the Namespace - I created Mutual, so that worked! > > New Account information ===> Created the Name, inserted the Code, selected > the Brokerage Account Mutual Fund as the Parent (So that is different to your > 2nd screenshot), Account Type set to Mutual Fund. Clicked OK - message popped > up saying select the commodity. Screenshot attached. I closed the message, > moved to select the account name, clicked OK, same message popped up. > > > I hope you can see my confusion! LOL! > > I have read both Chapter 9 and Chapter 11, but thanks for the reminder. My > issue has always been translating financial terms into the terms I have > learned here in Australia (eg 401k --- superannuation fund, etc.) > > Thanks, John, eager to learn more! > > > -- > Regards, > > > Megan Tilley > megan.til...@gmail.com <mailto:megan.til...@gmail.com> > 0409 949 717 > > ------- > "He who laughs last probably made a backup." > ------- > > > > On Sat, 21 Sept 2024 at 12:39, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us > <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >> That’s not correct. You can create a commodity for anything you like, and >> BTW you can create any number of namespaces to categorize your commodities. >> >> Yes, “commodity” is an overloaded word in English. To market traders it >> means futures in some physical product: Sow bellies, wheat, steel. In >> GnuCash it means anything that you might account for that isn’t an official >> (meaning recognized by the ISO 4217 committee). >> >> So, you want a namespace “Mutual Fund”? No problem. Open Tools>Security >> Editor. Click the Add button. Fill out the dialog box as shown in the first >> screenshot and click OK. On the Accounts tab click the New button and fill >> out the new account information, selecting either Stock or Mutual Fund for >> the Account Type, then click Select. If the new commodity is the only one >> you’ve got then that will be in the selection dialog as shown in the second >> screenshot. >> >> This is all explained much more thoroughly in Chapter 9 of the Tutorial and >> Concepts Guide: >> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_invest.html. See >> Chapter 11 for a thorough discussion of Capital Gains. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >>> On Sep 20, 2024, at 18:52, Megan Tilley <megan.til...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:megan.til...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> I have done so (created the commodity in Tools>Security Editor) however, >>> that process only allows "Stocks" and not a Fund... so - confusion on my >>> part. >>> >>> I have obviously done the creation incorrectly as the 'new' list still does >>> not show the additions - snip of Security list and also Account list. >>> >>> As I indicated - I believe that they should be Mutual Funds... >>> >>> Commodity in Australia is a classification - a Stock fits in a Commodity >>> market place - Manufacturing, Property, etc.. So I think I need to add >>> "Property" somewhere. >> >> <Screenshot 2024-09-20 at 19.28.54.png><Screenshot 2024-09-20 at >> 19.30.27.png> > <Select Commodity3.PNG><Create account fundname4.PNG> _______________________________________________ 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.
