Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Dave H
Hmm I'll check my Ubuntu install when I get home in a few hours. I'm pretty sure I've got 2.6.19 installed at the moment and F::Q is right up to date. Will check and see if my Help button works - I'm pretty sure it didn't a couple of installs ago until I did a catch up and installed gnucash-docs

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Ronal B Morse
On my 17.10 installation there is a fourth package, python-gnucash. Don't know if it has any relevance to this particular issue. RBM On 01/09/2018 10:38 PM, dunbrokin wrote: All 3 were already tickedbut I reinstalled them anywayno difference I am afraid!and there are no other

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
All 3 were already tickedbut I reinstalled them anywayno difference I am afraid!and there are no other gnucash files in the repository. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Dave H wrote: > Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian especially the bit about > gnucash-docs being op

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Dave H
Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian especially the bit about gnucash-docs being optional. The button is always there otherwise you would have to recompile gnucash to add it. I'm running a Ubuntu 17.10 at home and I'm pretty sure I had to install the docs as well... Search for *gnucash

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
Surely they must be...why have that help button otherwise? On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Dave H wrote: > I don't think so from memory :-) > > > On 10 Jan. 2018 2:37 pm, "dunbrokin" wrote: > >> Ubuntu 17.10...I have not directly installed the files you mentionare >> they not automatically

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Dave H
I don't think so from memory :-) On 10 Jan. 2018 2:37 pm, "dunbrokin" wrote: > Ubuntu 17.10...I have not directly installed the files you mentionare > they not automatically installed? > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Dave H wrote: > >> Ah What OS are you on again (debian ?) ? Have yo

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
Ubuntu 17.10...I have not directly installed the files you mentionare they not automatically installed? On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Dave H wrote: > Ah What OS are you on again (debian ?) ? Have you installed the > gnucash-docs/help files ? > > Cheers Dave H. > > On 10 January 2018 at 1

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Dave H
Ah What OS are you on again (debian ?) ? Have you installed the gnucash-docs/help files ? Cheers Dave H. On 10 January 2018 at 14:26, dunbrokin wrote: > Thanks for that Dave, found it...however when I click the button the Help > tries to open but shuts down due to an error!!and never opens

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
Thanks for that Dave, found it...however when I click the button the Help tries to open but shuts down due to an error!!and never opens! I seem to have a problem for every solutionsorry! On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Dave H wrote: > Select a Security and click edit - the help button i

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread Dave H
Select a Security and click edit - the help button is on the Edit security popup form ... Cheers Dave H. On 10 January 2018 at 12:48, dunbrokin wrote: > There is no Help button in my Security Editor?!?! > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:28 AM, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com > > wrot

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
There is no Help button in my Security Editor?!?! On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:28 AM, David Carlson wrote: > It is curious that alphavantage is not one of the choices under the > "Unknown" button in the security editor after the "Get Online Quotes" box > is checked. > After re-reading your initial

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I’ve used GnuCash for farm accounting for several years now. It is quite normal for farm expenses to get interspersed with personal. As with Quicken, you assign different categories/accounts to different lines in a purchase if some are farm/business and some are personal. With GnuCash they’re

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Rachel Gibb
Hi Jim, I wanted you to know that I have been using gnucash for our farm business going on 3 years now. I love it. I started with the program on a linux machine, now I use on my windows machine. I have all our accounts set up in the one system and pull out the ones to send to the accountant

How to best keep track of tax liabilities of a sole proprietorship

2018-01-09 Thread Chris Smith
I am using GnuCash for my freelance business. My dad always taught me to set 30% of a check aside for the government's share. How would you enter this to keep track of the tax liability? I am thinking I'd have to enter it against my *Income:Sales* account as a transfer to *Liabilities:Tax* I figu

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Jim, I’ll post answers in-line: Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2018, at 5:14 PM, James Meade wrote: > > I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly > because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to be > held hostage by it or by an operatin

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Jim, I am "sorry" to report that in my humble opinion GnuCash is an ideal program for your needs. The downside is that it does require some TLC to set up your books and it will probably consume more of your free time than you would like. That said, it works nicely with many bank accounts simulta

Re: Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:14:00 -0600 "James Meade" wrote: > > I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly > because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to > be held hostage by it or by an operating system (I always have in the back > o

Re: [GNUCASH] Commas on graph

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you mean you want to see commas as a thousands separator, that is dependent on currency/locale I should think. I have mine set to US Dollar/US. I don’t see any setting for that display in particular, but this option does exist in my OS locale settings. All reports I run that are over $1,000.

Farmer Question

2018-01-09 Thread James Meade
I've used Quicken for years and am considering switching to gnucash mainly because Quicken is going to a subscription pay model and I don't want to be held hostage by it or by an operating system (I always have in the back of my mind to swithc from Windows to Linux). I know little of accou

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread David Carlson
It is curious that alphavantage is not one of the choices under the "Unknown" button in the security editor after the "Get Online Quotes" box is checked. After re-reading your initial message I see that F::Q does appear to be functioning as a standalone but it is not integrated correctly into GnuCa

Re: Income Statement report to show loan paydown amount?

2018-01-09 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 1/9/2018 1:40 PM, Tj Junior wrote: Wondering if this is possible, the income statement appears to be the closest I've been able to find. Looking to find a summary of income and expenses summarized (e.g total over 1 year rather than by transaction), but I'd like it to show what's paid towards

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread dunbrokin
AlphaVantage, or anything like it, does not appear as an option in any of the drop down boxes in Security Editor under the Single, Multiple or Unknown radio buttonsdespite showing in the F::Q print out for 1.47 above. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:56 AM, David Carlson wrote: > Please include Gnu

[GNUCASH] Commas on graph

2018-01-09 Thread Irving Duran
Is there a way to place commas on the income vs. expense report graph without having to build a special report? Thanks! Irving -- Thank You, Irving Duran ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listin

Re: Income Statement report to show loan paydown amount?

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I forgot to mention the multi-column report. You could set up a multi-column report with the Income Statement in one column, and in the other a Balance Sheet and/or a special Cash Flow report showing just the money movements into/out of your asset/liability accounts. Save this as a customized c

Re: Income Statement report to show loan paydown amount?

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Check out the Tutorial and Concepts guide. (The entries I list below are simplified and don’t include multi-level account names, yours will vary) There are two ways to handle credit cards. The method I prefer is to enter any charges on the card as follows: Dr. Expense Cr. Credit Card Liability

Income Statement report to show loan paydown amount?

2018-01-09 Thread Tj Junior
Wondering if this is possible, the income statement appears to be the closest I've been able to find. Looking to find a summary of income and expenses summarized (e.g total over 1 year rather than by transaction), but I'd like it to show what's paid towards loans as well. The income portion is al

Re: Accounts as hyperlinks ignores the report options date range bug

2018-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That would beg the question then of how one goes about encoding date ranges in account hyperlinks. GnuCash creates the hyperlinks. The user just sets the option to do so. Now, if this were a custom report that was programmed differently, I could see the point of the question, but since this is

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Please include Gnucash Users in your reply by clicking reply all. You have actually updated F::Q to release 1.47 which is good, alphavantage is in the list of sources, so your next step is to check every security in your database to make sure that if they are marked for retrieval a valid source i

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Did you check to see which version of F::Q is actually running according to the instructions here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes David C On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:27 AM, MonMul wrote: > I have followed the instructions on > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online

stock updates of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)?

2018-01-09 Thread Michelle Pace
Hello, I am new to GNUcash. I was reading the manual a few minutes ago and understand that I will need to install "Pearl Strawberry". My question however rather is - does yahoo provide stock prices for the johannesburg stock exchange? ... since I can not find it in "Table A.4. Yahoo Codes for Exc

Re: Updated Finance-Quote to 1.44; GnuCash still not retrieving quotes

2018-01-09 Thread MonMul
I have followed the instructions on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F I am using version 1.44 of F::Q. I have got my key and added it to the environment file as outlined (using Ubuntu 17.10). When I search on Security Editor under the Unknown button I can