On 2015.07.15 16:04, RW Wood wrote: > Most of the documentation that I've had occasion to use for KMyMoney > is very good, however the section for loans is very sparse. I have > been trying for days to set up a mortgage loan for my house and am > still without success. There may actually be a bug in the software > since, if I try to set a beginning date prior to today's date, it > isn't recognized and todays date is used. Apart from that, in > stepping through the setup screens, it's uncertain what should be > used for the various fields other than the loan term screen that > calculates the payment or whatever field is left empty. Everything > else is kind of nebulous. > > It would be good if there were a tutorial somewhere that walked the > user through the various screens with instructions an what to put in > them, or if there were more complete docs in the user manual, perhaps > with context sensitive help for each screen. In the event that I'm > able to figure this out, I'll try to put something together to submit. > > Thanks, > Richard Wood
First, this is the list for KDE documentation writers; you are more likely to get help at the KMyMoney Users' mailing list - so I've included them. (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney) You could also use the KMyMoney forum at https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=69. However, as I am responsible for the KMyMoney documentation, have you read the manual (https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/index.html) and found it insufficient? I'd love to get specific suggestions for improvement. I do see there are no screen shots in the loan section of the manual, and I will try to add some for the next release, as well as reviewing the overall presentation. By the way, which version are you using (although I don't think there have been recent changes to loans) and what platform are you using (although I don't think it should matter)? (Note the rest of my comments are from memory, I have not looked at the loan schedule page in a while.) There are two potential issues with dates. First, the program will not create any transaction with a date prior to the opening date of the account. I'm not sure if that is your problem or not. In addition, I'm not sure if it is possible to setup a schedule starting in the past. The load wizard should give you a way to indicate previous payement amounts so it calculates the amounts starting with the next payment. If you really want to enter all the details of a loan which started in the past, it is possible, but could be a bit tricky. I would start by setting it up as if it were starting now, and we can discuss modifying it once you have done that (and I have reviewed what it would actually take.) There may also be responses from other readers of the KMM users mailing list. Jack
