Re: Budget View

If you think about it, 12 columns of, say, 8 digits each will take about 9 times 12 or 108 characters aacross. That could well not even fit on your screen unless you have a very high res screen. Very few persons could see the whole thing without scrolling. There was another thread where the OP w

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

On 7 October 2017 at 9:28, Steve said: > Fred Bone wrote > > Perhaps it's objecting to the MS-DOS-style line endings, that Notepad > > will have helpfully put there for you? > > > > If you put a file there with one line containing just a semicolon and it > > still won't run, then that's the probl

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Fred Bone wrote > Perhaps it's objecting to the MS-DOS-style line endings, that Notepad > will have helpfully put there for you? > > If you put a file there with one line containing just a semicolon and it > still won't run, then that's the problem. Thanks, Fred. The file that's causing the pro

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

On 3 October 2017 at 19:16, Steve said: > Color me clueless, well, almost... > > Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. > > So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports > sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by > opening up each one, copying th

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Color me clueless, well, almost... Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by opening up each one, copying the contents, then pasting the contents to a new file I c

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Color me clueless, well, almost... Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by opening up each one, copying the contents, then pasting the contents to a new file I

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

SUCCESS!! The author provided the key missing piece of information. When running the Budget+ report you have to specify in its "General" report option which "Stylesheet" to use. Specify the "Budget" stylesheet and everything is golden. Once I was told what to do it made perfect sense :-) --

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Larry, I'd greatly appreciate any assistance. I looked to see if the stylesheet was misnamed or if the "load" directive had a syntax error, but could see nothing wrong. I also looked at the stylesheet .scm file but I don't know what to look for. I will say the author very clearly identified the

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

out. Larry Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab® S Original message From: gbguy Date: 2017-10-02 16:02 (GMT-08:00) To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability Well, idiot here figured out the primary problem. I had File

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Well, idiot here figured out the primary problem. I had File Explorer's View option inadvertently set to hide file extensions. The two files I downloaded actually had .txt extensions (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-) I renamed the files and successfully ran a

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Well, idiot here figured out the major part of the problem. I unknowingly had File Explorer's View set to hide "file name extensions" and my files were actually named with a .txt extension (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-)I changed the file names and have succ

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Well, idiot here figured out the primary problem. I had File Explorer's View option inadvertently set to hide file extensions. The two files I downloaded actually had .txt extensions (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-) I renamed the files and successfully ran

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

azalea4va, Your report addresses many of the issues I've had as a new user of the gnucash budget reports. However, I have not been able to successfully install your report. I'm assuming that it will show up under Reports -> Budget as "Budget+ Report", but I cannot see it there or anywhere else un

Re: budget

On 21 September 2017 at 09:50, Phil Longstaff wrote: > I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for > others. For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, > it is good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months > but a large e

Re: budget

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:50:45 -0400 Phil Longstaff wrote: > I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for > others. :-) > For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, it is > good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months bu

Re: budget

I find envelope budgeting good for some expense types but not as good for others. For something like groceries or rent which are even over the year, it is good. For something like a trip which has 0 expense for most months but a large expense in 1 month, it is not as good because to make it work ou

Re: budget

I set up and 'programmed' a spreadsheet in LibreOffice. One sheet has discretionary spending with cells for amounts for that time period. I used the transaction report and limited it to the bank accounts used, certain expense accounts and some transfers to fit my needs. I then ran these and just

Re: budget

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:21:53 -0400 Dennis Powless wrote: > Thanks, I figured it out, I just added the carryover to the actual > expenses from the previous month net. I find the budget feature > difficult to use in gnucash, so made my own is LibreOffice. I use > the reports in gnucash quite a bi

Re: budget

Thanks, I figured it out, I just added the carryover to the actual expenses from the previous month net. I find the budget feature difficult to use in gnucash, so made my own is LibreOffice. I use the reports in gnucash quite a bit to get data for the budget, only a few data points each pay perio

Re: budget

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:48:03 -0400 Phil Longstaff wrote: > There is no automatic carry over. That would be a cool feature to enable so called 'envelope budgeting', iow. creating yearly budget with a monthly estimation and then being able to see how one does perform during the year... Sincerely

Re: budget

The budget for an account for a specific month is simply an estimate of the amount of money you expect to receive or spend in that account. Let's assume it's an expense account. If you don't spend as much as you expect, you can reduce it and increase another account's budget, so that the total budg

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

Mark Hedges writes: > I didn't forget. I just didn't want to, because I don't really know > if this is on the right track. On mailing lists in general, I am > tired of getting negative responses for offering suggestions or asking > questions. So why bother addressing messages to people other t

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

I didn't forget. I just didn't want to, because I don't really know if this is on the right track. On mailing lists in general, I am tired of getting negative responses for offering suggestions or asking questions. So why bother addressing messages to people other than the ones I'm replying to.

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

Don't forget to reply to the whole list. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Mark Hedges wrote: > ​FWIW I noticed several problems with open source programs in Windows 10. > Could it be a graphics library implementation issue? I wonder if you would > get the same problem using Developer Mode and t

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

I am aware of the very slow performance with budget. I have some ideas to improve it but have not found time to put into it. It seems to only affect Windows. It runs fine on linux. Phil On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Proberts042 wrote: > Slow to me is several minutes. > > I have installed Gnu

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

Slow to me is several minutes. I have installed GnuCash on a Linux operating system (Ubuntu) and it seemed to work well. However, did not try the Budget feature there. I would like to use an open source operating system but sharing word processor files with my teachers and students proves difficul

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

ening the budget is very slow, but no real problem. Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:47:07 -0700 (MST) From: Proberts042 To:gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10 Message-ID:<1503668827155-4693420.p...@n4.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I need

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

I do not use budgets so I cannot comment on that part, but several other reports run very slowly for me, meaning they sometimes take minutes to update. GnuCash pretty much single threads, even on very powerful computers. The developers know about that and they are working feverishly on under-the-

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

I need to clarify. The operating system does not slow down. Only GnuCash. It is extremely slow. The computer otherwise works as usual. I will not say it works great. It is still Windoze. Physical Memory Gnucash not running In Use 3382 MB Modified 103 MB Standby 5329 MB Free6440 MB

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

In W7 or W10 right click in the task bar and select Task Manager. Then select Resource Monitor to look at details. David C On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Colin Law wrote: > The point about memory is a good one @proberts042 I assume that > Windows has a system monitor tool of some sort that y

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

The point about memory is a good one @proberts042 I assume that Windows has a system monitor tool of some sort that you can run to see how much memory is being used. Try running that and then the report and see if you are running out of RAM Colin On 24 August 2017 at 22:59, David Carlson wrote:

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

It is well known that GnuCash tends to run slowly when running some reports, and particularly when working on larger data files containing years of data. However, it is very unusual to run so slowly that the OS complains that it is not responding. Some users (myself included) notice that it could

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

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Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

2.6.17 On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Colin Law [via GnuCash] < ml+s1415818n4693399...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > What version of GnuCash are you using? > > Colin > > On 23 August 2017 at 21:41, Proberts042 <[hidden email] > > wrote: > > > I h

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

What version of GnuCash are you using? Colin On 23 August 2017 at 21:41, Proberts042 wrote: > I have been using gnucash for about six months now, and really like it. Easy > to use, and does the job well for my small school. I want to use the Budget > feature, but whenever I try to set up a Budge

Re: Budget bar chart with sub-accounts

I did some debugging with the report and created a modified version that shows all accounts. I filed a bug with GnuCash with the fix at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785437. On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Jon Schewe wrote: > Has anyone found a way to create a budget bar chart that