[GNC] Links on wiki

2023-10-27 Thread Peter C. S. Scholtens via gnucash-user
Hello, On this page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Testing the weblinks in this text "Tests on C++ code should be written using GoogleTest and GoogleMock. " are dead. Please replace with https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/main/docs/index.md (I assume it can be one link). Most likely,

[GNC] Input validation issue on investment accounts when changing number format.

2023-04-09 Thread S. John Banner via gnucash-user
I recently moved countries from the Netherlands (which uses a number format like "1.234,56") to Portugal (which uses a number format like "1,234.56"), and for completeness, at the same time I moved from a Windows PC to a Mac M1. Everything seems to have moved over just fine, I can use the Portug

[GNC] New feature suggestion

2023-04-08 Thread S
Using GnuCash Version: 4.8 Build ID: 4.8a+(2021-09-28) Finance::Quote: 1.51 on Ubuntu Linux --- A) Since there is a an account tree export/import tool, it would be useful & time saving to have the following features: 1- An option for  "New account wizard" to directly import a tree stru

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-28 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
gt; Transaction Report) is to file a 'bug' at bugs.gnucash.org with the > title starting with 'RFE - ' which is Request For Enhancement. > > While bugs are usually tackled by the devs first of course, some RFEs > either aren't hard to implement, or might interest a

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-28 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:22 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > The term is Print 'dialog'. I attached a screenshot illustrating the > location of the export function. > > Across the top is the app menu, containing sub-menus. Print is not one > of them. (Print is howe

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-28 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:08 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 10/27/22 2:12 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > I don't think it is possible to create the "hanging paragraph" view from > > the Options menu, if one is displaying

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-28 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:08 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 10/27/22 2:12 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > Print menu? There is none. > Then what would you call the window labeled Print that appears when you enter Ctl-P fro

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-27 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
menu, but thank you for the hint. Best, -P. On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:47 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 10/26/22 1:58 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion about General Journal. > > > > I like the way the Accoun

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-26 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ou were viewing. > > As for balancing, certainly checking the Orphan and Imbalance accounts > is good practice. You can also use the Trial Balance Report. Though I > think there have been some bugs with it as of late based on list > messages. Those might only have to do with multi

Re: [GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-26 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
f accounts and didn't get a zero balance, that just means > at least one transaction involves one or more accounts you did not include. > > The Transaction Report can be used for lots of things. The first > question I'd have for you is, "What question are you trying to

[GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

2022-10-25 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi, What do the Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report signify? Please see the attachment, which shows the last few lines of a Transaction Report. For most reports I generate, the values shown are zero, but here both the Total and Grand Total are shown as $20.83 I thought at fi

[GNC] Help

2022-10-08 Thread Carl S.
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Re: [GNC] Move transactions from one account to another

2022-10-07 Thread Carl S.
*From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] *Subject:* [GNC] Move transactions from one account to another * * Perfect!  Thanks! Carl * * * * * * * * *Date:* Friday, October 7, 2022 at 8:01 PM *To:* Carl S

[GNC] Move transactions from one account to another

2022-10-07 Thread Carl S.
I want to move all of Account A's transactions into Account B.  Then delete Account B. Is there an easy way to do it? Thanks, Carl Smith OpenPGP_0x19B6B68457884FFB.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-07 Thread Carl S.
o problems. *From:* R Losey [mailto:rlo...@gmail.com] *Subject:* [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC *Date:* Friday, October 7, 2022 at 1:58 PM *To:* Carl S. *Cc:* David Carlson; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Well, yes, but if I have the same balance that the statement shows, I can assum

Re: [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-07 Thread Carl S.
rom:* R Losey [mailto:rlo...@gmail.com] *Subject:* [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC *Date:* Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 12:43 PM *To:* David Carlson *Cc:* Carl S.; gnucash-user@gnucash.org While the convenience of importing transactions is nice, I've been doing manual reconciliation and entry

Re: [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-06 Thread Carl S.
ll. Thank you, all Carl Smith *From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] *Subject:* [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC *Date:* Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 9:10 AM *To:* Carl S. *Cc:* gnucash-user@g

[GNC] Bulk check box A U+C C

2022-10-06 Thread Carl S.
In the screen Match Transactions screen is there a quick way to check off all of the boxes in column A or U+C or C all at once? Thanks, Carl S. OpenPGP_0x19B6B68457884FFB.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[GNC] Import Map Editor

2022-10-06 Thread Carl S.
I'm curious about the Import Map Editor and what it's for.  It does say I've got something like 300 invalid mapping and asks if I want to delete them. No idea what to do with itand certainly don't want to create a disaster. Thanks, Carl OpenPGP_0x19B6B68457884FFB.asc Description: OpenP

Re: [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-06 Thread Carl S.
Whooops.you're right  QFX and not QDF *From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] *Subject:* [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC *Date:* Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 12:17 AM *To:* Carl S. *Cc:* gn

Re: [GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-05 Thread Carl S.
as you want then import to your main set of books. It also helps to create a dummy CSV file which only has a few typical transactions in it to get the setup right. Avoids having to delete large numbers of transaction while you are experimenting if you don't get it right first time round. Davi

[GNC] Import CSV transactions into GC

2022-10-05 Thread Carl S.
Discover Card (a credit card) as of last week stopped providing the download of Discover card transactions in QDFmuch to my displeasure. They do provide a download of transactions in CSV format. I'm trying to figure out how to do a reliable importation of my credit card transactions into G

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-17 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
witching the > Detail Level to 'One Split Per Line' in the Display tab. You can of > course turn on other info labels in Display, but I turned them off to > match your example. > > Note, the attached example uses Date, rather than the default Account > Name, as the pri

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
I think at last I see what you all are saying. When I have not displayed account totals, the only account shown on a debit or credit line is the *counterpart* of the current leg of the transaction; so the line in the last of my four attachments that says "Checking Account" and lists $100 as a Cred

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ing tab but > that is > still not reversing the Debit/credit columns as in the last attached copy > of > the transaction report. > > David > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 13:55 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > As an experiment, I st

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
versions of MacOS, things might again work, but the two macs I have access to are both at the most recent versions of MacOS that the respective hardware permits. -P. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 1:55 PM Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > As an experiment, I started a band new Gnucash file for test purposes

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
k it is clear at the very least that the problem did not arise from the switch from 4.6 to 4.11. I also think it shows that I am not doing anything wrong, but please correct me if you disagree. I would look forward to suggestions. -P. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 1:46 PM Peter S. Shenkin wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
do not know whether the same problem appeared when I was using 4.6. I'm skeptical whether this could be involved. Best, -P. On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 3:18 AM wrote: > On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 20:28 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Adrian, > > > > I do have full account name

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-03 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ccount. > > > > I've done a sample transaction with similarly named Asset & Revenue > > accounts and attached screenshots of the register, the Transaction > > Report with just Checking selected, and the Transaction Report with both > > Checking & Donation accounts se

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
enter it in each register separately) > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 8/1/22 10:08 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Regarding my question ("Possible GC bug?"), I just reread your response > and > > realized that you actually said that in your hands it works cor

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
t that there is something screwy in the settings somewhere. -P. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 11:04 PM Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > Hi, David, > > I did try using both Increase/Decrease and Debit/Credit labeling in the > register, but the transaction report is unchanged. > > I also

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
counting labels preference? > David Cousens > > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 19:35 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I made up the name "transaction entry" because I didn't know what to call > > it. 😊 I didn't know there was such a thing as

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ot in or out > of your book that you get both an increase & decrease in the same > transaction. > > *finally, you can see all splits for a single transaction using the View > > Auto-Split mode, or if in Basic mode, use the Split button on the > toolbar. You don't need

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Actually on the Mac, that setting is in Gnucash > Preferences > Accounts > Label On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 7:29 PM Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > That is useful information! Thank you. I found Increase and Decrease > perfectly understandable until it didn't work. 😊 > > -P.

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ction entry directly into the register for that > account > itself. > > David Cousens > > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 17:13 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.11 on MacOS 11.6.8. > > > > There are two images attached, labeled Transaction

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ng labels with Debits and Credits. This may be less > confusing to you than Increase and Decrease. > > Thank You, > > *Gyle McCollam* > > Gyle McCollam > > gmccol...@live.comemail > -- > *From:* gnucash-user > on behalf o

[GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-01 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.11 on MacOS 11.6.8. There are two images attached, labeled Transaction entry and Transaction report. They are two different views of the same transaction, to a non profit that I am doing the books for. The transaction involves a deposit to our checking account from Wepay.

Re: [GNC] Symbolic links (MacOSX)

2022-07-31 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Jul 23, 2022, at 10:38 AM, Peter S. Shenkin > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting back to gnucash after a long hiatus. I'm also starting up > using > > Gnucash on a different computer. So I copied the Gnucash directory to > > ~/Documents/work/F

[GNC] Symbolic links (MacOSX)

2022-07-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi, I'm getting back to gnucash after a long hiatus. I'm also starting up using Gnucash on a different computer. So I copied the Gnucash directory to ~/Documents/work/Foo/ on the new computer. (The name Foo was changed to protect the innocent. Or is it the guilty?) Gnucash had been in ~/work/Foo

[GNC] GnuCash Dark Theme Needed

2021-12-21 Thread S S
I apologize if my formatting is not appropriate to the list as I can't find anything about how to format posts to the list. My problem right now is that I downloaded GnuCash 4.9 and I can't read anything in the software as it is not honoring/inheriting/adopting Windows 10 High Contrast Dark them

[GNC] H

2021-06-30 Thread s...@goodheaven.co.uk
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Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
I recently made a query here about the Gnucash "Close Books" facility. It was only about a week ago. The original poster might like to look at the responses, because they seem relevant here. -P. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:49 PM David Cousens wrote: > Hi Jose, > > The process of adding the openi

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Close Books option

2021-04-20 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ou can have in effect TWO December > 31sts, the pre close 31st and the post close 31st. > > Michael D Novack > > * This provides and example of WHY I was told not to create finish > reports directly out of gnucash (as a software pro, although just with a > reading knowledge of LI

[GNC] Gnucash Close Books option

2021-04-20 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.3 on MacOS. This version has a "Close Books" option. I do understand that using this option, Income and Expenses can be made to transfer to an equity subaccount (like Equity:Starting balance). I also understand that there are alternatives to using this option, but in this

Re: [GNC] CSS selectors for alternating rows and individual columns on the Account page?

2021-02-25 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
This sounds like a good reason to use Qt. 😁 (A cross-platform GUI building tool.) -P. On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:45 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I poked around with the inspector quite a bit when GnuCash moved to > GTK3, and as far as I can tell, the content o

Re: [GNC] Transaction Reconcile behavior differences

2021-02-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Perhaps I’m wrong about this (still a neophyte) but I have the idea that the accounting concept of reconciliation applies to external accounts. In GC 4.3, if a transaction is imbalanced, it show up with an “Imbalance” amount. Does this not suffice for internal account transfers? External transact

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

2021-02-20 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
I'm a beginner, too, and here's what I would do. This may be largely repetition of the previous discussion, but I'm repeating for clarity (I hope). To keep yourself honest and eliminate temporary confusions, display which accounts are placeholders: On the list of accounts, the header line starts w

Re: [GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

2021-01-24 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Thank you, Micheal. I wanted them at the top, so the following works for that: - Parent account balances = Subtotal - Parent account subtotals = Do not Show. Thank you again, -P. On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 1:54 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > That's the rig

Re: [GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

2021-01-24 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
. Overall, what I have is better for my purposes than the alternative, -P. On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:37 AM Maf. King wrote: > On Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:03:42 GMT Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > >- Parent account balances > > - Subtotal (I have this selected) > >

Re: [GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

2021-01-24 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
> balance sheet is in the experimental reports menu; the latter will never > show subtotals twice. > > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, 11:04 pm Peter S. Shenkin, wrote: > >> Please tell me where this option is. >> >> I already said that I didn't see an option for this.

Re: [GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

2021-01-24 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
ystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 1/24/2021 12:26 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Gnucash 4.3 on a mac. > > > > Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals twice: > > once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end? > > > &g

[GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

2021-01-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Gnucash 4.3 on a mac. Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals twice: once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end? It adds a large number of extra lines and no new information, and balance-sheet examples from (the few) accounting books on my shelf do n

Re: [GNC] Requesting a trial balance as of a specified date

2021-01-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Never mind. After running the report, I could select the date in Options. -P. On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 8:27 PM Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > If I want to print out the trial balance of an account as of a specified > date, how (in the program) do I specify the date? > > Oddly, when I

[GNC] Requesting a trial balance as of a specified date

2021-01-23 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
If I want to print out the trial balance of an account as of a specified date, how (in the program) do I specify the date? Oddly, when I just ask for the trial balance (from Reports), I get the trial balance as of 12/31/1969. I'd have thought the default would be the date of the last transaction.

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

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-17 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hmm could that be because there were only four files stored so far in mystery-memory because of the previous setting? What happens if you open a fifth file, exit the program and then restart? Do you see five? -P. On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:31 PM Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2021, at 1

Re: [GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

2021-01-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
s to be an issue with > how I access the mailing list, not you or those who replied.) I'm glad > you've got it worked out. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 1/16/21 9:49 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, Andrien, > > > > And thanks. > > > > I

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
r, onto the Dock. Then I can start Gnucash by > double-clocking the icon in the dock. I suppoe it depends how busy you Dock > is already. > > peter > > > On 17 Jan 2021, at 1:41 pm, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > > > On Big Sur, I have Gnucash installed directly under /A

Re: [GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

2021-01-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
with Equity:Opening Balances, as you (and others) suggested. -P. On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:35 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 1/15/21 11:53 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've recently volunteered to take o

Re: [GNC] Recent list in file menu

2021-01-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
On Big Sur, I have Gnucash installed directly under /Applications, which is the default Installer option. I either double-click the icon, or, in a Terminal window, type "open /Applications/Gnucash.app". If you have Gnucash.app installed somewhere else, just type open /Gnucash.app. Once it opens,

Re: [GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

2021-01-16 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
First, to all who responded, Thank you. Summary follows: Q1: (Adding Opening Balances after setting up the account) Yes, using transactions is the obvious solution. Clearly, I am an accounting newby as well as a Gnucash newby. Q2: (Whether I can keep Equities under Liabilities) I was told by the

[GNC] Newby questions opening accounts

2021-01-15 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Hi I've recently volunteered to take over as treasurer of a non-profit. The previous treasurer was keeping his accounts with a different (tty-based) system and I wanted to try Gnucash instead. 1. After having set up my accounts, I looked at the documentation and saw that Opening Balances are supp

[GNC] Newbie

2019-08-08 Thread S. Sliackus
Hi guys I am new to GnuCash. I came up with this piece of software by searching practical solution to couple of my charities and small business. I have quite mixed feelings about this program, I found some things over complicated (some invoicing aspects, customer list and search, transactions spl

Re: [GNC] Entering paycheck details of Employer sponsored deductions

2019-04-23 Thread Umakanth V S
ount. As I see it, the >> interest on your P+Q, when added to the interest on your R, is the same as >> the interest on P+Q+R, unless the rates are different. >> >> Interest is income; you might as well get used to it. Interest accrued >> will be entered as income, going i

[GNC] Entering paycheck details of Employer sponsored deductions

2019-04-20 Thread Umakanth V S
Hi All, I have recently started using GnuCash to keep track of my personal expenses. I find it to be a great software and am still learning its features. This is my first post and it pertains to entering details of employer sponsored deductions from paycheck in GnuCash. I have read other posts re