Re: [GNC] Duplicate Trading Account Created in V4.5

2021-04-22 Thread Gal
Noticed the same behavior. No symbols or abbreviation were changed, the only change was upgrading to 4.5 -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

[GNC] [MAINT] Unplanned network outage

2021-04-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Good morning GnuCashers, Just wanted to report on a (relatively short) unplanned network outage overnight. Around 12:30am US/ET my network went away. It came back around 1:15am. This was my upstream ISP doing some maintenance work. This is the same kind of maintenance that took me completely o

[GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Jose A. Lorido III
Hello, I would like to utilize Gnucash for 2021, and have the balances of all my accounts as of 12/31/2020. Can anyone advise on how to insert these beginning balances into their corresponding accounts? Any help would be greatly appreciated... Kind Regards *Jose A. Lorido III* Managin

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread D. via gnucash-user
From the Tutorial & Concepts Guide,  section 5.1: You can enter this [the opening balance] in the account information window automatically as part of the New Account Hierarchy Setup assistant, or you can enter a manual transaction directly in the account. To enter the transaction manually, ente

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 21, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Jay Bouxsein wrote: > > I have been using GNUCASH for several years to basically track income and > expenses for rental properties my wife and I own. I do not use it for any > other purposes, I enter all of our expenses and income and then produce a P > $ L repo

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Jose A. Lorido III
Thanks David for your advice.. I was able to place the Opening Balances on my ASSET and LIABILITY accounts, but I cannot seem to be able to add the Opening Balances to my EQUITY accounts (Additional-Paid-In-Capital, Opening Balances, and Retained Earnings accounts). Can you help on how to

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, April 22, 2021 12:55 pm, Jose A. Lorido III wrote: > Thanks David for your advice.. > > I was able to place the Opening Balances on my ASSET and LIABILITY > accounts, but I cannot seem to be able to add the Opening Balances to my > EQUITY accounts (Additional-Paid-In-Capital, O

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hi John, Can you please provide a link on the available command line switches and syntax? I have searched everywhere and came up short. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:34 PM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 21, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Jay Bouxsein wrote: > > > > I have been using GNUCASH for several year

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread Derek Atkins
On Thu, April 22, 2021 1:26 pm, Glenn Fowler wrote: > Hi John, > > Can you please provide a link on the available command line switches and > syntax? I have searched everywhere and came up short. gnucash --help > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using R

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Jose A. Lorido III
Hi Derek, Thanks for your advice, however, I'm still not sure what to do with the balances I had on 12/31/2020 in my Equity Accounts (Additional-Paid-In-Capital, Opening Balances, and Retained Earnings accounts) and how to add them to the beginning balances as of 01/01/2021. Could you clarify?

[GNC] Securities disposals: pooling (not FIFO/LIFO/average costing) for UK cgt purposes: average price and identity (GNUCash v.4.5)

2021-04-22 Thread RW Jones via gnucash-user
[Summary of main question: can GNUCash v.4.5 operate with the UK capital gains tax rules on pooling requirements for determining price and identity of securities sold outright and/or on part disposals?] I'm not a GNUCash user and though I've installed v.4.5 to see if there is a ready and ob

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/22/2021 2:30 PM, Jose A. Lorido III wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for your advice, however, I'm still not sure what to do with the balances I had on 12/31/2020 in my Equity Accounts (Additional-Paid-In-Capital, Opening Balances, and Retained Earnings accounts) and how to add them to the beginning

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Thank you for the reply Derek but I had already tried that and at least on v4.5 it returns nothing. However, gnucash-cli returns the expected switches (see screenshot) On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:44 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Thu, April 22, 2021 1:26 pm, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > Hi John, > > > >

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, April 22, 2021 4:29 pm, Glenn Fowler wrote: > Thank you for the reply Derek but I had already tried that and at least on > v4.5 it returns nothing. However, gnucash-cli returns the expected > switches > (see screenshot) That is very VERY odd. It works for me. I wonder if this is a W

[GNC] Cleaning out unneeded 'pre-pays' when paying vendors

2021-04-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Over the years I've sometimes processed a vendor invoice forgetting to print it. So I unpost the invoice, repost it, then repay it, this time actually printing the check. I then delete the extranious payment from checking. During the payment process I'm offered a dialog box asking which of the ve

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Yes, must be a Windows version bug. Do you want me to open a bug ticket? On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 5:30 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, April 22, 2021 4:29 pm, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > Thank you for the reply Derek but I had already tried that and at least > on > > v4.5 it returns nothing.

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > That is very VERY odd. It works for me. I wonder if this is a Windows bug? Not odd at all, and not a bug in the sense that Microsoft did it on purpose [1]. Windows executables have a couple of bytes in their preambles that say what ty

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Thank you, in that case is there documentation on the command line switches? On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:06 PM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > That is very VERY odd. It works for me. I wonder if this is a Windows > bug? > > Not odd at all, and

Re: [GNC] Automatically scan & OCR receipts & invoices, automatic data entry into GnuCash, and attach it to the transaction

2021-04-22 Thread David H
No - probably this ,,, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Python_Bindings Cheers David H. On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 05:24, Glenn Fowler wrote: > Hi Pankaj, > > Are you referring to this? > > https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT/gnucashextension.html > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 3:15 AM Pankaj Jangid > wro

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread David H
This is it, not sure what else you are looking for ??? This is pretty new (gnucash-cli) and as far as I understand it limited so far to just these functions ? Cheers David H. "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli" --help C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli [options] [datafi

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
"IIUC" means "if I understand correctly". No, Register2 is an attempt to rewrite of the register code to use GtkTreeView[1]. It didn't work out but its remains, er, remain. But I see that I'm wrong about that anyway, Expense and Rebate are the informal labels on the debit and credit columns for

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hi John, I was referring to gnucash command line switches, not gnucash-cli command line switches as you mentioned earlier starting GnuCash with --extra earlier in the post. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM John Ralls wrote: > I've just added the current output of `gnucash --help` to > https://w

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
Glenn, I know, and that's what Derek posted and what I added to the wiki page. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:35 PM, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > Hi John, I was referring to gnucash command line switches, not gnucash-cli > command line switches as you mentioned earlier starting GnuC

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread Peter West
I’m on a Mac, and command line access is not available by default. If I $ export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS” then $ Gnucash --help Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash (process:12007): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 10:10:34.704: [mac_set_languages()]

Re: [GNC] difficulties I am having

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
That's not what I hoped to see. It looks like instead of changing the type of the checking account you deleted it and told GnuCash to move all of its transactions to Expenses. It's possible to fix this but it will be a little tedious. If you have a backup from before all of this happened (see h

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 22, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Peter West wrote: > > ’m on a Mac, and command line access is not available by default. > > If I > $ export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS” > then > $ Gnucash --help > Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash > Th

Re: [GNC] Inserting the Beginning Balances of Accounts in Gnucash

2021-04-22 Thread David Cousens
Hi Jose, The process of adding the opening balances in a new book for you asset and liability accounts should create the value of the total equity from your previous set of books in equity so your total equity should be correct and it will be the sum of all the transactions to the Equity:Opening B

Re: [GNC] Command Line Args

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
I overlooked the "application options" when I skimmed over it earlier, sorry about that. Thank you! On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7:41 PM John Ralls wrote: > Glenn, > > I know, and that's what Derek posted and what I added to the wiki page. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:35 PM,

Re: [GNC] Automatically scan & OCR receipts & invoices, automatic data entry into GnuCash, and attach it to the transaction

2021-04-22 Thread Glenn Fowler
Ok I see. It looks like you would have to build from source and compile w/ python bindings and then make your py script for what you want to do. Unfortunately I don't know Python so I can't explore further but that is very interesting! On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7:08 PM David H wrote: > No - probab

[GNC] Is print/pdf dialog ever going to save paths?

2021-04-22 Thread Daffy Duck
Hello, When I first started using gnucash years ago, it was far easier to print to pdfs.  It saved the last path, etc. That stopped, and I read it was a bug, but it seems to have never been fixed.  Every time I have to print, print to file/pdf, and the path always resets to home directory. I main

Re: [GNC] Automatically scan & OCR receipts & invoices, automatic data entry into GnuCash, and attach it to the transaction

2021-04-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
David H writes: > No - probably this ,,, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Python_Bindings > > Cheers David H. > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 05:24, Glenn Fowler wrote: > >> Hi Pankaj, >> >> Are you referring to this? >> >> https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT/gnucashextension.html >> Sorry for misleadi