Re: [GNC] Finance quote troubleshooting

2020-09-13 Thread Geoff
Great detective work Andreas! And thanks for sharing your solution. I hope the rest of your Gnucash voyage is plain sailing. Regards Geoff = On 13/09/2020 9:27 pm, Andreas Vyrides wrote: Dear Geoff and Ralls, I would like to let you know that I have finally realised and fixed the issue

Re: [GNC] Negative attitudes [was: Re: Negative numbers]

2020-09-13 Thread Dean Gibson
[see below] On 2020-09-13 13:42, Dean Gibson wrote: I don't want to beat this dead horse too much more, but I do want to address an aspect of the general issue of entitlement that I have not seen addressed (and may not be immediately relatable to the current issue at hand): ... There's an o

Re: [GNC] Negative attitudes [was: Re: Negative numbers]

2020-09-13 Thread David H
Ah well said, couldn't agree more. Regards David H. On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 06:45, Dean Gibson wrote: > I don't want to beat this dead horse too much more, but I do want to > address an aspect of the general issue of entitlement that I have not > seen addressed (and may not be immediately relata

Re: [GNC] Negative attitudes [was: Re: Negative numbers]

2020-09-13 Thread Dean Gibson
I don't want to beat this dead horse too much more, but I do want to address an aspect of the general issue of entitlement that I have not seen addressed (and may not be immediately relatable to the current issue at hand): It's one thing to complain about features that you want, or want diffe

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-13 Thread Ove Grunnér
Yes, if I understand you correctly, use a split transaction, one debit from the bank account and two expense transaction in one split transaction. You can also import split transactions from e.g. csv, you may need to manipulate the data to be in the right format but very posible and saves a lot of

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Sep 2020, at 08:54, Doug wrote: > > Chris, > I am no Gnucash or accounting x-pert, but how I perform a similar task is to > just do a total import, to ´Unspecified´. > Then I duplicate another transaction with similar splits, to the same date > (so in you case, the previous weeks transa

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > The SQL backend uses libdbi and that is a compile-time option. However you > need runtime libraries to enable the various SQL backends to work. > > Most likely you don't have the appropriate SQLite database drivers > installed. Searc

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I am running GnuCash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on [x]ubuntu 20.04. > > I have started keeping a small PCC accounts with this but decided I > wanted to move to storing the data in sqlite rather than the default > XML. > > It does

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Derek Atkins
The SQL backend uses libdbi and that is a compile-time option. However you need runtime libraries to enable the various SQL backends to work. Most likely you don't have the appropriate SQLite database drivers installed. Search for libdbi-dbd-sqlite and similar. -derek On Sun, September 13, 2020

[GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
I am running GnuCash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on [x]ubuntu 20.04. I have started keeping a small PCC accounts with this but decided I wanted to move to storing the data in sqlite rather than the default XML. It doesn't seem to be possible, if I click on SaveAs in the File menu the only Dat

Re: [GNC] Negative attitudes [was: Re: Negative numbers]

2020-09-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 9/13/2020 1:37 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Great exposition! I use Fedora in my business.  It is a wonderful example of "Kaisen", meaning constant improvement.  I am totally spoiled by their responsiveness to users, including me.  I presume "someone" is paying them, but I do no

Re: [GNC] Finance quote troubleshooting

2020-09-13 Thread Andreas Vyrides
Dear Geoff and Ralls, I would like to let you know that I have finally realised and fixed the issue. Since this is an open source application I will be describing all steps that I have taken as well as describe my results from the aforementioned 7 and a half points provided by Geoff. In case anyon

Re: [GNC] Negative attitudes [was: Re: Negative numbers]

2020-09-13 Thread Liz
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:37:02 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > Folks do not understand that Open Source is not free. We have a way of describing this to deal with the various meanings of "free" in English. You are describing "free as in beer". Others are describing some of the furthe

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-13 Thread Doug
Chris, I am no Gnucash or accounting x-pert, but how I perform a similar task is to just do a total import, to ´Unspecified´. Then I duplicate another transaction with similar splits, to the same date (so in you case, the previous weeks transaction). Then I manually do the split in that transa

Re: [GNC] Negative numbers

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 02:40:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > You ever get a letter from Red hat or Wine or Libre > Office explaining that you need to "hire" them to > get your bugs fixed? This is the open source model. > Open source is not a free lunch. > It varies. I gues