Given the extremely long history of this question with many good people
expressing good reasons on both sides of the debate, I would have expected the
developers to give the user the choice. There should be a switch in the
preferences that allows the user to decide if the necessary extra account
> Actually you are given the opportunity to fix it during entry. When the
> Imbalance account appears in a transaction in the account column, all you
> have to do is click on it in the Account column and assign the correct
> account from the drop down list, before closing (pressing Enter) the
>
Hi David,
> I agree. There is a case for not displaying the Imbalance accounts in the CoA
> tab if there are no entries to them, i.e. they are zero balance. This is an
> option in reports but not in the account tab. They can of course be left in
> the CoA and hidden in the Account tab by editing
Yes, David, That is why YOU would want the imbalance account functionality.
However, other people work differently. Some people have no need for that
functionality and don’t like the creation of extra unneeded accounts. It would
be nice if GnuCash worked well for everyone instead of forcing ever
All these arguments hold very little water in the real world. The fact remains that the
OP's bank does not follow the rules that some people think "should be." That
bank is not alone in its practice. I interact regularly with three different financial
institutions, only one of which follows the
> On Mar 3, 2021, at 11:50 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> To open a second file on a Mac (if you can -- I don't know), you would need
> to run GnuCash from the Terminal and pass the filename on the commandline.
I have been doing this for several months on a MacBook Pro running Catalina.
The co
Hi All,
I've been using GnuCash for several years now, tolerating the bugs and
idiosyncrasies on the hope that it would improve with time. That hope has been
borne out to some degree, but I'm still waiting on many issues. It's been a
while since I bothered to install a new version, so I am aga
Hi Adrien,
Thank you for your interest. The first day of the week is, of course, a
personal preference. However, because it is set to Monday everywhere else in my
life, it would be more convenient if GnuCash were set similarly.
Yes, I am aware of System Preferences > Language & Region; that
Hi Ken,
Thanks for thinking about my little problem. However, I don't see how this
would help. The regular Mac interface gives me the option to change the start
of the week from the locale's default. GnuCash should be reading that change
like all the other date-aware applications. It does not.
Hi Frank,
Thank you for thinking about my little problem.
I don't understand why we would assume this is a bug in GTK. If GnuCash tells
GTK to create a calendar with Sundays as the first day of the week, it should
obey. The problem is that some code is not looking at the locale setting on my
Hi Adrien,
> How does first day of the week affect reports in GnuCash? The only report I
> can think of that might be an issue is the Expenses/Income vs. Day of the
> week, but each day is reported separately, though Sunday is listed first in
> the key, it is a pie chart. All other date selecti
Hi Catscrash,
Thank you for confirming that at least someone can get GnuCash to use Monday
as the first day of the week. Unfortunately, the pictures did not come through,
but I believe you that it is working on your system.
I'm not sure how to describe the report I'm referring to. On my syst
Hi Adrien,
Thanks for the clarification. I certainly agree that this could be a problem
in GTK. I don't have enough information about GnuCash's inner workings to make
that judgment.
Best,
John
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> But I don’t think GnuCash is doing
Hi Michael,
Thank you for chiming in. This is very good news. Perhaps I just need to move
further up the OS ladder. I'm currently working with a 2008 MacBook Pro that
cannot run anything beyond El Capitan. However, I do also plan to move my 2014
MacBook Pro to Mojave. If it works correctly for
Curiouser and curiouser. I just booted my 2014 MacBook Pro in Mojave. I was
hoping to see good results, but I was disappointed. My experience on Mojave was
identical to my experience on El Capitan. I first tried changing just the day
of the week and creating a new set of books. Then, I tried cha
Hi Peter,
I had the same results the first time I launched GnuCash 3.7. However, when I
clicked it a second time in the Dock, it seemed to launch normally. I have not
tested much, but it seems to be working.
I’m running GnuCash 3.7+(2019-09-07) under El Capitan (10.11.6) on a 17” 2008
MacBo
Hi All,
First, I offer a hearty thank you to the developers for this new version of
GnuCash. I really appreciate that my concern about the starting dates for
weekly reports garnered someone’s attention.
Unfortunately, the weekly reports are still not working correctly for me. In
earlier ver
Hi All,
I have recently upgraded from Yosemite (macOS 10.10.5) to El Capitan (macOS
10.11.6) and Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) on two different machines. In the process,
I have finally taken the leap from GnuCash 2.6.16 into the 3.x series. Until
this morning, I was using 3.6 and I am now using 3.7.
Hi Adrien,
Thank you for looking into this issue. The transaction report is the main
issue for me.
Best,
John
> On Sep 9, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I was hoping to get to test this as well pre-release, but didn’t get to.
>
> I can confirm that at least fo
Hi Adrien,
Thanks for looking into this issue as well. I will study the new procedure
for loading reports as soon as I am able.
> 1. My invoices (editing/viewing) all pad to the width of the window no matter
> how I size it, so I’m not sure what you have going on. Maybe try
> double-clicking
Hi Adrien,
I worked my way through the GnuCash wiki on loading custom reports at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Where_to_find_existing_reports. I
made a tiny bit of headway, but not much.
I have set up a new file called config-user.scm in ~/Library/Application
Support/GnuCash
Hi Adrien,
> For starters, maybe give the default stylesheet a try and see if it gets you
> close (or exactly) to what you want. The default now lets you include an
> image, so you don’t *have* to use Fancy Invoice. Also, maybe play with the
> banner size. If you don’t need it to be full-width,
Hi Adrien,
You were right, the changes I had made did have a bearing on this problem.
However, they only reveal the miscoded HTML in GnuCash 3. Also, the changes in
question are to the invoice report itself, not the stylesheet.
It turns out that the relevant change I made is that we have no
I think I am experiencing the same issue noted by the original poster. However,
I don’t use GnuCash the same way, so I did not at first identify it as such.
I’m using GnuCash 3.7 on two different machines: A 2014 15” MacBook Pro
running Mojave (10.14.6) and a 2008 17” MacBook Pro running El Ca
se the actual Page Up and Page Down keys. In both cases, the
basic shortcut works as I discussed earlier.
Best,
John
> On Sep 17, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> John Morris,
>
> For me (Mojave 10.14.6) the ESC key gets rid of the text entry window and the
Hi All,
Having recently upgraded from GnuCash 2.6.something to 3.7, we are
having trouble with the some of the customer features. Specifically,
two reports help us see the amounts we are owed and what we owe our
clients. Those reports are Reports -> Business -> Receiveable Aging
and Reports -> B
Hi Christopher,
Thank you for this suggestion. Unfortunately, I failed to mention
that I'm running GnuCash on a Mac (Mojave, 10.14.6). I don't think the
Windows repository you sent will help me much. I am willing to try the
beta version of the reports if I can do that without jeopardizing my
prod
It would be very nice to be able to open two sets of books at the same time.
Unfortunately, this procedure does not work on Mojave. When I issue this
command in Terminal, GnuCash still tries to open the last opened file, which
is, of course, still open as the first of the two documents I want op
The command suggested by Robert Kesterson works very well for me. I have been
using it in Terminal to keep two sets of books open while I found the time to
create an automator script to add to my startup routine. Thank you for that,
Robert.
However, there is one small problem. Appending the
For what it's worth, I also set all my scheduled transactions. I used to see
that message, but I have not seen it for a long time. I think the change
happened when I got religious about unchecking the "Notify me when created" box
in the Overview tab of the scheduler. However, that was a long tim
For what it's worth, I, too, have been bothered by this in the past. For me,
the main issue is that the report-options window opens on top of the report and
opens way too small to be particularly useful. Consequently, I have to move and
resize that window every time I want to change the report o
> But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the
> invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you
> can just reuse this practice one instead of generating a new one.
The only problem with this idea is that some ways of finding an invoice do
not n
:33 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> John Morris writes:
>
>>> But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the
>>> invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you
>>> can just reuse this practice one instead of generating a
Hi Nelson,
Others have suggested a suspend account; you can find those details
elsewhere. I find that to be more than I need, but I do sometimes need to track
this type of hold in the moment. When that happens, I simply add a transaction
to the account that removes the funds to some miscellane
Hi Nelson,
Such is life in the real world. GnuCash is not designed for the real world,
just a simplified approximation. GnuCash reports just one main balance. You can
get more by using the reconciled, cleared, present, future minimum and total
columns in the main Accounts tab, but that is besi
You don't say what operating system you use, and I don't know if this
particular feature is operating-system dependent, but shift + and shift - give
me one-week increments and decrements in 2.6.16 on Mac OS X.
Best,
John
> On Jan 6, 2018, at 11:00 PM, AC wrote:
>
> Are the quick keys for date
> If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it
> was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is
> very hard, and without a client that you carry with you it is virtually
> impossible, even if one existed, it would be tedious. The fact is the
> Bank i
> When you have the curser in a split line of a transaction, the word 'Tot'
> disappears. You only see that when the curser is in boxes that are not a
> part of a split line.
I think this also depends on the view one is using. I'm using a Mac with the
en-us translation and GnuCash 2.6.16. I us
Hi Andrey,
> 1. Can this software be used for a small business that is a bank /
> financial institution - all accounts have to be flipped from bank's point
> of view e.g. Loans are Assets, Deposits are Liabilities (can the software
> be re-configured as such)?
Yes, GnuCash can easily handle thi
> On Sep 13, 2017, at 4:35 AM, Deva - wrote:
>
> One peculiar observation though. I used as a tag on some shortcuts
> while tagging the others with . I was expecting the ones to
> invoked by using +key and the ones to be invoked by using
> +key.
>
> However, on launching gnucash, all menu
I do an honest-to-god reconciliation to a statement every month for many of our accounts.
The main reason I do this is it gives me a recent touch point where I can prove that the
bank and I really did agree. While I also look at our most active accounts almost daily,
those looks are useless in
Hi All,
I just moved up to GnuCash 5.10 from (I think) 5.8. Everything seems to work
as before except for one issue. In Version 5.8, I was able to see 54 lines in
the Accounts tab. Now, in Version 5.10, I'm only able to see 49 lines in the
same size window. I also notice that the font used in
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