Re: [GNC] Setting up accounts for account number order

2021-01-18 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Edit each of the top-level accounts (via the Edit button). Add exactly the account numbers you've just shown for each account. (You can also add numbers to the subaccounts if they need to be in a specified order, too. but they should all share the same first digit of their superaccounts. If you do

[GNC] Setting up accounts for account number order

2021-01-18 Thread John G Sullivan
I’ve used GnuCash for years; although, I never worded about account number order. Most of the time I exported reports and then manipulated the order or just looked at them in whatever method they displayed. I always want to figure out the system. Now I need to know since one account is am workin

[GNC] Fwd: Upgrade from portable 2.6 to 4.4

2021-01-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
I assume others are intersted in the answer, too. Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: [GNC] Upgrade from portable 2.6 to 4.4 Datum: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:52:56 + Von: W. Michael Schoel Antwort an: W. Michael Schoel An: Frank H. Ellenberger Hi Frank I responding to a me

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread David H
Thanks John, that made all the difference, now to clean out all the history files I bodged up to test this :-) Cheers David H. On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 05:02, John Ralls wrote: > And that turns out to be necessary: Unless you tell defaults -int it > writes a string and GSettings decides that's th

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread David H
My Gnucash.app is in /Applications/GnuCash and I found GnuCash/Gnucash as in "defaults read -app GnuCash/Gnucash" was sufficient however if it's not under Applications you're probably correct :-) Cheers David H. On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 00:35, w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > Note: If you have Gnu

Re: [GNC] Upgrade from portable 2.6 to 4.4

2021-01-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Michael, Am 18.01.21 um 20:41 schrieb John Ralls: > On Jan 18, 2021, at 9:58 AM, W. Michael Schoel wrote: : >> I have no appreciation of the effort required but it would be nice if >> GnuCash fully adopted the Portable and AppImage approach. what is wrong with Flatpak, see https://wiki.gn

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 18 Jan 2021, at 16:32, Chris Graves wrote: > > If you open the plist file with Xcode or bbedit or ... you may see that the > maxfiles key is of type string, instead of integer. It may look like: > /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles > 6 > > Instead of > /org/gnucash/history/ma

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-18 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 1/18/21 11:22 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: Good points. I have bridge software already working and approved by HMRC for use. My initial thought was to have a report in GnuCash that generated the VAT report for a period. There would then be a menu option to submit VAT. This menu optio

Re: [GNC] Upgrade from portable 2.6 to 4.4

2021-01-18 Thread John Ralls
Thanks for the kind words, but please remember to copy the list on all replies. Regards, John Ralls > On Jan 18, 2021, at 9:58 AM, W. Michael Schoel wrote: > > Dear John > Thanks for your help and that from the rest of Gnucash, I am a strong > supporter of the open source community ( I prefer

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
It is maybe worth mentioning that the Gnucash preferences plist on Mac OS is stored in: ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist Will On 2021 Jan 18, at 01-18 12:55:51, John Ralls wrote: And that turns out to be necessary: Unless you tell defaults -int it writes a string and GSettings

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Good points. I have bridge software already working and approved by HMRC for use. My initial thought was to have a report in GnuCash that generated the VAT report for a period. There would then be a menu option to submit VAT. This menu option would generate a csv file containing the VAT values

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread John Ralls
And that turns out to be necessary: Unless you tell defaults -int it writes a string and GSettings decides that's the wrong type and won't use it. Incidentally, someone wondered how to do this on other OSes. In Linux you'd just use the DConf tool to create the key /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles.

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-18 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 02:52:19AM -0600, chr...@floatdene.com wrote: > Good points. I have bridge software already working and approved by HMRC for > use. My initial thought was to have a report in GnuCash that generated the > VAT report for a period. There would then be a menu option to submit VA

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread John Ralls
You can also use the domain directly, e.g. defaults read org.gnucash.Gnucash Regards, John Ralls > On Jan 18, 2021, at 6:08 AM, w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > > Note: If you have Gnucash in a non-standard location like I do, you probably > will have to give the full path to the application

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread Chris Graves
If you open the plist file with Xcode or bbedit or ... you may see that the maxfiles key is of type string, instead of integer. It may look like: /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles 6 Instead of /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles 6 You can manually change string to integer

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
Note: If you have Gnucash in a non-standard location like I do, you probably will have to give the full path to the application. e.g. defaults read -app /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash-4.4/Gnucash.app On 2021 Jan 18, at 01-18 04:20:33, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 17 Jan 2021, at 20:11, David H

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-18 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 17 Jan 2021, at 20:11, David H wrote: > > You can easily check the mru details by doing the following... > > defaults read -app Gnucash > > or > > defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history > > Cheers David H Yes, I discovered how to read and write the relevant plist using “defaults”, v

Re: [GNC] UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

2021-01-18 Thread Maf. King
On Sunday, 17 January 2021 19:43:58 GMT Edward Bainton wrote: > Of the 6, I have to confess that I read it too hastily and I don't have to > do VAT, so the VAT bridge won't be of interest to me. > > But crikey, if you can't use GnuCash for MTD, it's not much use anymore, is > it? > GC can prepar

Re: [GNC] Capital gains reporting - Australia

2021-01-18 Thread Geoff
Hi Bill I don't think there is an easy solution to this in GunCash. Like you, I have been using Lots to record the capital gains (great feature for matching buys & sells), but I can't find a way to deduct brokerage and any other fees from the calculated gain. When I record a sale, I record t