Re: [GNC] Forces Rebalance Causes Fatal Error

2024-10-31 Thread David H
Griffin / Bueller ? None of your screen shots made it to the mailing list - you have to attach them to an email not paste them in-line. You don't have to delete the lock file manually, you should be able to click on open anyway if the lock file is present and Gnucash will open anyway :-) Cheers

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Liz
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:43:55 -0600 Griffin wrote: > Thank you so much Kalpesh for the reply. > > I tried exporting and then importing, but that didn't work for me. I > guess I did something wrong, and I ended up with lots of transactions > with no values in them at all. > > In the end I selec

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Liz
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:26:10 -0700 "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" wrote: > On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote: > > Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin : > >> Is it possible to duplicate an account? > > > > Sounds like an XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > What are you tryin

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Griffin
Thank you so much Kalpesh for the reply. I tried exporting and then importing, but that didn't work for me. I guess I did something wrong, and I ended up with lots of transactions with no values in them at all. In the end I selected a transaction in the from account, "Jumped" to the other ac

[GNC] Forces Rebalance Causes Fatal Error

2024-10-31 Thread Griffin
Hi, I am trying to reconcile accounts that have got way behind. They are stock (options) trades that might have been entered before I understood how trading accounts should be setup. When I view the register for the account, I notice some of the records display a box with a square in it, in

Re: [GNC] check failed test-userdata-dir-invalid-home building gnucash 5.9 on Linux Mint 22 Wilma

2024-10-31 Thread John Griessen via gnucash-user
On 10/31/24 05:18, Geert Janssens wrote: Do you have the environment variable GNC_DATA_HOME set in your environment, pointing at /home/john/gnucash ? No, thanks. I reran it and still get the error even with env set: 98% tests passed, 2 tests failed out of 128 Total Test time (real) = 45.

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
Hello Fred, You have no idea how data gets into your GnuCash file? > On 10/31/2024 10:04 AM PDT Fred Tydeman wrote: > > > I have no idea how Gnucash ended up with prices in two different currencies > for the same stock. > I only found out that it did when the Advanced Portfolio report had a

Re: [GNC] check failed test-userdata-dir-invalid-home building gnucash 5.9 on Linux Mint 22 Wilma

2024-10-31 Thread John Griessen via gnucash-user
On 10/31/24 05:18, Geert Janssens wrote: Do you have the environment variable GNC_DATA_HOME set in your environment, pointing at /home/john/gnucash ? No, thanks. I'll rerun it and report back. -- John ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuca

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
While I don't know the full background on your situation, something is not adding up right. If the setup for your book is correct then the exchange rate between two currencies should reconcile the report to correct value for the Advance Portfolio and the Current Value for it. -Original Mess

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote v1.63_06

2024-10-31 Thread Geoff
Thanks for your hard work Bruce - we appreciate it! Regards Geoff = On 1/11/2024 3:27 am, Bruce Schuck wrote: Hello, F::Q release v1.63_06 will probably become v1.64 in the next week or so. Changes since v1.63 are the following: * Fix to Stooq.pm - Issue #445 * Updated ASX.pm - Issue #

[GNC] Finance::Quote v1.63_06

2024-10-31 Thread Bruce Schuck
Hello, F::Q release v1.63_06 will probably become v1.64 in the next week or so. Changes since v1.63 are the following: * Fix to Stooq.pm - Issue #445 * Updated ASX.pm - Issue #404 * Added more fields to CSE.pm and exposed all labels. * Changed parsing in Comdirect.pm - Issue #413 * Complete re

Re: [GNC] Questions about how to handle Gift Certificates

2024-10-31 Thread Robert Heller
Nevermind, I found it. At Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:26:38 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller wrote: > > > > At Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:34:27 + Murugan Mariappan > wrote: > > > > > Robert > > > > Try the following and see if it works for you > > > > 1. Create a new account named "Gift Certificates Pay

Re: [GNC] Questions about how to handle Gift Certificates

2024-10-31 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:34:27 + Murugan Mariappan wrote: > > Robert > > Try the following and see if it works for you > > 1. Create a new account named "Gift Certificates Payable" and set it as a > Liability account. > 2. Record the Sale of a Gift Certificate: > Credit the "Gift Ce

[GNC] Chart rendering in 5.6-2 and later flatpaks

2024-10-31 Thread John Ralls
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799445 reports rendering charts when running a Wayland session and generating PDFs from charts on an Xorg one on all releases since 5.6-2; that flatpak release and all subsequent ones use Gnome runtime 46. Previous releases used Gnome runtime 44. Has any

Re: [GNC] Questions about how to handle Gift Certificates

2024-10-31 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Robert Try the following and see if it works for you 1. Create a new account named "Gift Certificates Payable" and set it as a Liability account. 2. Record the Sale of a Gift Certificate: Credit the "Gift Certificates Payable" account for the amount of the gift certificate sold. Debit

Re: [GNC] Questions about how to handle Gift Certificates

2024-10-31 Thread Mark at Lorimark
Hi Robert, Excellent question! I didn't have the answer, but thought I'd google it, and this is what I found; https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/accounting-for-gift-cards-gift-certificates Hope that's helpful. ~mark petryk ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com On 10/31/24 12:38, Robe

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Fred Tydeman
I have no idea how Gnucash ended up with prices in two different currencies for the same stock. I only found out that it did when the Advanced Portfolio report had a very wrong Current Value for that stock. On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 2:48 PM Murugan Mariappan < m.muruganan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > H

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote v1.63_06

2024-10-31 Thread Bruce Schuck
Sorry, I omitted: It can be installed via cpan (or cpanm) cpan BPSCHUCK/Finance-Quote-1.63_06.tar.gz Thank you. Bruce S. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.g

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 10/31/2024 10:13 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the resu

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Murugan Mariappan
Hi Fred Can you explain why you have the same stock with two different currency Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Fred Tydeman Sent: 31 October 2024 04:16 To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one curr

Re: [GNC] Showing account totals as of today

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Not sure if this was mentioned or not but in COA windows, you can add additional "Total" columns that has different types of total amount. Selection is made by clicking the down arrow at the end of the heading line (the one that has the text "Account Name" in it) and putting a check mark by clic

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the result after the experiment or experiment with the

Re: [GNC] check failed test-userdata-dir-invalid-home building gnucash 5.9 on Linux Mint 22 Wilma

2024-10-31 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi John, Do you have the environment variable GNC_DATA_HOME set in your environment, pointing at /home/john/gnucash ? That may explain the failing test. The test is not relevant for the proper functioning of gnucash in normal circumstances though, so you can ignore the issue. It tests for the

[GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there a fast way to find stocks that have prices in more than one currency? Looking at the price history for each stock, one by one, is not fast. As I discovered, stocks with prices in more than one currency mess up the Advanced Portfolio report. ___