Re: [GNC] The Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, as usual your comment is very motivational. ;-) Am 07.03.20 um 14:43 schrieb D.: > Honestly? That appendix should be deleted. Everything is covered in other > places, or is incredibly dated. I can not find any other place, where XSLT is treated, but it is used e.g. in https://wiki.g

Re: [GNC] Report Options was hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Liz
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:30:59 -0600 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Curious... > > Where are you right-clicking to get Options? Not any more I started about Gnucash 1.6, and it went away, to be replaced by the current scheme. Sometimes the history helps us understand how the next choice was made.

Re: [GNC] Report Options was hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread David H
Liz did say "in my youth" i.e. going back a few years :-) Cheers David H. On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 15:40, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Curious... > > Where are you right-clicking to get Options? > > I tried on the tab - that just gives me a list of all tabs. > > I t

Re: [GNC] Report Options was hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Curious... Where are you right-clicking to get Options? I tried on the tab - that just gives me a list of all tabs. I tried on the menu entry, that runs the report sans options, same as left-click. I tried on a blank part of an existing report and got a menu with, “back, forward, stop, reload

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread David Carlson
Gio, In GnuCash you cannot delete split lines without throwing the transaction out of balance. Hence, you need to replace the undesired account with a different account. If you want to delete every instance of an expense A and replace it with expense B you can do that in the account tree by relo

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
First, I would ask, “Why do you want to delete these transactions?” and second, “Do you want to delete some or *all* of the transactions in that expense account?" You don’t need to ‘find’ transactions from an expense account to delete them. Just open the expense account if you want to delete ce

Re: [GNC] font size how to increase

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
For more detailed info if needed, see the wiki and search for “GTK” Regards, Adrien > On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 9:21 PM, Rare Bear wrote: > > Look in the "Users/AppData/Roaming/GnuCash" folder for a file named > "gtk-3.0.css". Edit the file and change the font to something you like. I > chang

Re: [GNC] Find or search all expenses in a certain account

2020-03-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Mar 7, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Gio Bacareza wrote: > > Thanks John. I'm trying to run in from the register page. > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 1:52 AM John Ralls wrote: > >> >> >>> On Mar 7, 2020, at 1:20 AM, Gio Bacareza wrote: >>> >>> Hi I tried to search all expenses in a certain account

[GNC] Report Options was hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Liz
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 13:59:25 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" wrote: > Thinking back to when I was a new, it wasn't obvious that the Options > menu entry was there on the report.  The report ran and either was > what I wanted or wasn't with little clue how to change it. In my youth (with Gnucash) the op

Re: [GNC] Find or search all expenses in a certain account

2020-03-07 Thread Gio Bacareza
Thanks John. I'm trying to run in from the register page. On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 1:52 AM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Mar 7, 2020, at 1:20 AM, Gio Bacareza wrote: > > > > Hi I tried to search all expenses in a certain account by doing Find > > > Account > Matches Any Account - Selected Expense

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Gio Bacareza
Thanks Tommy. This is a really interesting method and I can already think of use cases. For my scenario though, as I mentioned earlier response, it will add extra steps to what it is that I want to do. I want to be able to find transactions to/from expense accounts because I need to delete them an

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Gio Bacareza
Thanks Maf, I tried that but it doesn't let me do what I ultimately want to do. The goal is to be able to delete all transactions to expense account and all it's children. So example consider accountA. In it you would have transactions to/from: AccountB AccountC Expense:E Expense:F I want to be a

Re: [GNC] font size how to increase

2020-03-07 Thread Rare Bear
Look in the "Users/AppData/Roaming/GnuCash" folder for a file named "gtk-3.0.css". Edit the file and change the font to something you like. I changed mine to "font: 15px consolas, sans-serif;" and save the new version in the same folder. Reopen GnuCash and you should be good to go. Denny On Sa

[GNC] automation idea

2020-03-07 Thread Matthew E. Kokidko
emailing as recommended on: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Budget_Requirements. Auto populate or initiate a new budget based on current balances and scheduled transactions. Prior transaction analysis doesn't work for new users (without lots of imports from their bank and reconciling, maybe).

[GNC] font size how to increase

2020-03-07 Thread am via gnucash-user
How to increase font size gnu cash v 3.8 windows10? The font is so small can hardly be read. Thanks Al ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/ma

[GNC] GnuCash Nightlies with AqBanking: 6.1.2 (OFX issues)

2020-03-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Since today the gnucash nightlies, e.g. https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/?C=M;O=D https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/?C=M;O=D contain Aqbanking 6.1.2 Regards Frank P.S. In case you answer on this announcement, remove one of the lists to avoid cross posting. Am 06.03.20 um 1

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m one of those that leaves a few basic reports open at all times. (a YTD P&L and MTD P&L, along with AR/AP aging) But I run other reports for analysis fairly regularly. An option would be nice, but just switching the order would work well. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 3:56 PM,

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 3/7/20 1:17 PM, David H wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 04:22, Michael or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> But there is some preliminary stuff you should know about the process. >> When you tell gnucash to produce the report, it will do so with default >> options. You then

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread David H
I think from memory there are also some users that leave report tabs open semi-permanently so that when they re-open Gnucash the report results are refreshed automatically. I guess I'm thinking that the options panel would only be displayed when the report tab is first opened so that it doesn't sc

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There are also reports that appear to display an error because some options like account selection are required before any results can be shown. While the ‘work around’ was to tell the user they needed to set options, it may not be clear to the newbie what they need to do. But rather than have s

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread David H
On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 04:22, Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > But there is some preliminary stuff you should know about the process. > When you tell gnucash to produce the report, it will do so with default > options. You then use Edit => Report Options to change the

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 10:57 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 3/7/20 8:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: >> >> 3 Has anyone produced an multi column Income report that lists the income >> and expense by month? > Nope. Experiment and tell us what you find. It is in the 3.8 experimental menu.

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:43 AM Maf. King wrote: > On Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:34:33 GMT Gio Bacareza wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've read the manual, tried everything and searched the lists but can't > > seem to figure out how you can search for ALL expense transactions from a > > certain account. >

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/7/2020 11:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the Balance Sheet and Income Statement? 2 How do I d

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 7 Mar 2020 11:13:07 -0500 Ian D Henry wrote: > > I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to > questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. > > 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the > Balance Sheet and Income

Re: [GNC] Find or search all expenses in a certain account

2020-03-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Mar 7, 2020, at 1:20 AM, Gio Bacareza wrote: > > Hi I tried to search all expenses in a certain account by doing Find > > Account > Matches Any Account - Selected Expense Account and ALL child > accounts. > > Result: blank > > What am I doing wrong? > Did you run Find from the Account

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 3/7/20 8:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: > I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to > questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. > > 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the > Balance Sheet and Income Statement? Yes.  Cli

Re: [GNC] Problem getting price quotes after upgrade

2020-03-07 Thread azalea4va
Problem resolved. In the new install, I was failing to set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY before calling gnucash. -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

[GNC] Restoring "Unable to save to database" error?

2020-03-07 Thread Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user
I've been getting the "Unable to save to database" error whenever I import and/or save transactions in one of my asset accounts. I haven't lost any transactions, but it appears that the database which automatically matches imported transactions (or attempts to) is corrupted. I'd be perfectly ha

[GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Ian D Henry
I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the Balance Sheet and Income Statement? 2 How do I display either statement with a specific end

Re: [GNC] The Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2020-03-07 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Honestly? That appendix should be deleted. Everything is covered in other places, or is incredibly dated. Original Message From: "Frank H. Ellenberger" Sent: Sat Mar 07 14:49:38 GMT+05:30 2020 To: Rick Squires , 'David Cousens' Cc: GnuCash Subject: Re: [GNC] The Tutorial a

Re: [GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Maf. King
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:34:33 GMT Gio Bacareza wrote: > Hi, > > I've read the manual, tried everything and searched the lists but can't > seem to figure out how you can search for ALL expense transactions from a > certain account. > > Any help would be appreciated. Try the transaction repor

[GNC] Help Find Feature

2020-03-07 Thread Gio Bacareza
Hi, I've read the manual, tried everything and searched the lists but can't seem to figure out how you can search for ALL expense transactions from a certain account. Any help would be appreciated. -- cheers, Gio ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

Re: [GNC] The Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Rick Squires
Thanks Liz, I am moving very slowly at the moment, just trying to get an understanding of how it all works. I've had some good results from importing a couple of QIF files so far. Plenty more to do! Cheers,Rick -Original Message- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+oceancru

Re: [GNC] The Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Liz
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 15:35:10 +1100 "Rick Squires" wrote: > > > Before I move from Reckon I would really like to ensure that I can > transfer all my data accurately. Naturally, so you do some trial runs. Plan to import small amounts at first, so that you can train the importer. Try variations u

[GNC] Find or search all expenses in a certain account

2020-03-07 Thread Gio Bacareza
Hi I tried to search all expenses in a certain account by doing Find > Account > Matches Any Account - Selected Expense Account and ALL child accounts. Result: blank What am I doing wrong? -- cheers, Gio ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnu

Re: [GNC] The Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
... and tomorrow you can see an update of the appendix at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/appendixa.html Regards Frank Am 07.03.20 um 08:06 schrieb Rick Squires: > Thankyou David, > Quite a bit to read and think about there. > I appreciate your input. > Cheers,Rick _

[GNC] Problem getting price quotes after upgrade

2020-03-07 Thread azalea4va
I have been running gnucash on Linux Mint for years. The guncash I am running is version 3.7 that I built from source. I recently upgraded to Mint 19.3. On the new system I go into the price editor and click on "Get Quotes", I get "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:" and then all the stoc