Re: [GNC] Vendor posting

2024-09-10 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
All of which begs the questions that Derek asked earlier: do you have accounts of *type* A/P and A/R, and are they in the proper currency? ⁣David T.​ On Sep 10, 2024, 9:05 AM, at 9:05 AM, David Cousens wrote: >Heidi, > >The invoice/bill dialogue automatically posts an invoice or bill to >Accou

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, ? Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-10 Thread Robert Heller
I have a RPi 5 with a M.2 SSD (using the mini-pci interface). It is quite fast. I also have another drive (rotating rust) on a USB-SATA interface and it is fast enough. At Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:49:28 +0300 "sunfis...@yahoo.com" wrote: > > Can't resist noting that using a Raspberry Pi in this wa

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Kevin Buckley via gnucash-user
On Sunday, September 8th, 2024 at 11:40, Megan Tilley wrote: > > > This email failed anti-phishing checks when it was received by SimpleLogin, > be careful with its content. > More info on https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/anti-phishing/ > > -- > Hi every

[GNC] Regular Expressions in Reports

2024-09-10 Thread Grace
I'm forgetting everything I used to know. Can someone point me to where I can find out how to filter by regular expressions in the transaction report option. Many thanks, Grace. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com ___

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread R Losey
My answers are interspersed with your questions (well, some of your questions) On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 5:09 PM Megan Tilley wrote: > Hi everyone! > > My environment is: > Local Currency: Australian Dollar (AUD) > Exchange Rates required for: > == USD > == GBP (UK) > == EUR > == SEK (Sweden) >

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-10 Thread R Losey
Well, but think about it... after the password is entered, THEN what? The "correct" password would have to be stored somewhere so that GnuCash could verify what is entered is correct, and clearly saving the password in clear text is not secure. Because the software is open source, anyone could read

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
If it were me, I'd just register everything in AUD, as an earlier person suggested. If everything comes through PayPal as AUD, why engage in this complexity? Is there a compelling reason to track costs in the original currencies? Having lived in a number of different countries around the world

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-10 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Of course you need to select an algorithm in a compatible library, of which there are many.  I was just responding to the idea that a unchanging common password would be hard coded is open source, a very odd idea.  If you used triple DES, for example, all the open source would show is that you

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-10 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Generally when you type in a password to anything, it is stored in a variable in memory, virtual memory, possibly written to swap space, but those memory and disk spaces are protected and ephemeral, so there is no easy access to them and even then, they are hard to decipher. In theory, one coul

Re: [GNC] Vendor posting problem

2024-09-10 Thread David Cousens
Heidi, Please don't reply to my direct email address, but send your reply to gnucash-user@gnucash.org. It will reach me through the mailing list in any case. Your message will not reach the mailing list unless you do this.  While it can be confusing to deal with replies from multiple people, it us

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Stephen and Geoff - thank you so much for such comprehensive answers and yes, I am currently re-reading my Finance Textbooks to refresh my memory of Double-Entry bookkeeping! The issue, I think, is that Quicken really dumbed down my comprehension because it handled the double-entry stuff behind

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Hi Geoff! Thank you so much for your response and between you and Stephen, I can see that the majority of my questions have been answered. I have uninstalled both GC and Strawberry Perl and downloaded the two source files again from their respective sites. GC installed quite easily, as it did the

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Geoff - you little beauty bottler!!! YAY! it worked. I assume you edited the results to the bare minimum in your instructions? I am glad that my issue could be reproduced but sad that it requires a fix! I could not decide whether I had to add all 3 installation commands at once or one at a time

Re: [GNC] need help with Vendor post bill

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user
Hi Heidi, You should really use reply all and not individual addresses so that the entire thread is visible on the mailing list as others may offer better solutions. In order to generate the bill you must have created at least one vendor so that part looks to be OK. If you have multiple vend

Re: [GNC] Regular Expressions in Reports

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff
Hello Grace The Transaction Report Options screen has a "Filter" tab that lets you: (a) Include (or exclude) Accounts by filtering on Account Name using: (a.1) A simple string of characters (eg "tax"). or (a.2) A regular expression - see below. (a) Include (or exclude) Transactions by filtering

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff
Hi Megan Glad to hear you had a successful outcome. The difference in results is explained by the fact that I ran the powershell installation script first - even though it failed at the end, it did successfully install most of the necessary modules. Hence your 24 vs my 1. So you are good t

Re: [GNC] Question off-list

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff
Hi Megan Please always post to the list. This is one of the friendliest groups of strangers you will never meet, and you won't be flamed for asking. I don't know how the list membership is managed, but hopefully someone else can respond. Regards Geoff = On 11/09/2024 8:01 am, Megan T

[GNC] Workaround for Finance::Quote 1.62 Installation Problem (Windows)

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff
Folks I am documenting this workaround for a problem encountered installing Finance::Quote. I have only tested this on Windows, but it should also work on other operating systems. When I ran the GnuCash powershell script "gnc-fq-update.ps1" to install Finance::Quote, it ran for quite a long

Re: [GNC] need help with Vendor post bill

2024-09-10 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Geoff, I believe that the business features allow tracking by vendor *without* using the multiple accounts you mention. Others might be able to confirm this better than I, though. ⁣David T. ​ On Sep 11, 2024, 3:15 AM, at 3:15 AM, Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user wrote: >Hi Heidi, > >You sho