Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 08 Oct 06:43 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > There is also GigiNews (US$4.99/month). I found https://www.aioe.org/ some years ago which gives access to text newsgroups and which I've used without issue, though I post very little. Toward the OP, one nice thing about email and mailing lis

Re: [GNC] Bravo! 4.x type-ahead search enhancement

2020-08-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
That sounds very useful. If ever it would be possible I would like completed selections in the Description column to be a drop-down list as well. It seems I'm running out of simple descriptions and have to type more. The fact that Tab will complete the account, splits, and amount is very useful

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
I took over as treasurer for my church as of the first of the year and have been using GC. There are three payroll employees that I managed to set up for withholding tracking. It's kind of twisted but it works for me. There are some things I do in spreadsheets and GC is primarily my way of track

[GNC] Reordering register entries?

2021-01-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, this morning I goofed and deleted what I thought was a zero value split in another register and in so doing deleted an entire entry, other splits and all, in my main checkbook register. As it worked out there were a number of transactions and transfers to subaccounts on Monday, Dec 28, and n

[GNC] Account for contracted grain sales?

2019-11-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
I am just getting started with GnuCash (should have done so long ago...) and my main occupation these days is farming. I've been using a simple cash accounting system all of these years and I am able to configure my accounting in GnuCash to get an even more realistic view of my finances as time go

Re: [GNC] Account for contracted grain sales?

2019-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 05 Nov 07:46 -0600, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 11/4/2019 11:18 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > One thing I have done for years is enter into a deferred payment > > > contract with the cooperative that buys my grain. In general the grain > > > is sold as of a given date with payme

[GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

2020-01-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
I am setting up a budget for this year in my new role as treasurer for our church. Ours is simply a spending budget and since we're partners with another parish there are actually two budgets, but that isn't my problem at the moment. Under Expenses I have created the placeholder account Home and

Re: [GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

2020-01-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 09 Jan 01:53 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > This might be an ‘unused’ issue. > > I presume since you’re getting started, none of those 26 accounts have any > existing transactions, correct? Correct. > Go to: > > View > Filter By > Other > > and check off: > > Show Unused Account

[GNC] Tracking designated balances in the total checking account balance?

2020-01-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
The issue I am wrestling with is how to deal with what I will call designated funds that our organization tracks internally but are just part of the one checking account. To explain further. Say there is a total checking balance of $1000.00. Then say there are two standing funds one with $200.00

Re: [GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

2020-01-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 09 Jan 05:29 -0600, briancady...@yahoo.com wrote: > Is this caused by the 26 sub-accounts being marked as 'placeholder' > accounts during creation? The 26 accounts are not placeholders in my list. > Not sure, I'm also a newbie, It looks like it's not related to nesting per the answer

[GNC] Handling reimbursements?

2020-01-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
What is everyone's thoughts on handling reimbursements received for ongoing expenses? In our church arrangement our congregation pays various expenses through the month and then at the end of the month the other congregation is given an invoice and the payment is received. Conceptually easy. I'll

Re: [GNC] Handling reimbursements?

2020-01-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thank you very much Adrien. That is quite comprehensive and I'll be studying it a few times! Having been on this list for a few months, the contributions are outstanding and among the best of the Free Software Community. Thanks again. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the bes

Re: [GNC] accounts setup (how to duplicate same payment in two expense accounts)

2020-01-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
I had a similar question a while back and the solution was to use sub-accounts. In this case I would try the following and see how it works for you: Expenses:Vehicle:Gasoline Expenses:Vehicle:Gasoline:Vacation Then make sure that E:V:G is not a placeholder account so you can enter transactions i

Re: [GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

2020-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 09 Jan 01:53 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > This might be an ‘unused’ issue. > > I presume since you’re getting started, none of those 26 accounts have any > existing transactions, correct? > > Go to: > > View > Filter By > Other > > and check off: > > Show Unused Accounts > (opt

Re: [GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

2020-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 31 Jan 15:17 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Nate, > > > First, the budget by default, I don’t think, shows any ‘cells’ like > you would think of them in a spreadsheet. You can turn on faint grey > lines here by going to Preferences > General > General and then > checking off the two

Re: [GNC] Non monetary transactions?

2020-02-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 22 Feb 12:01 -0600, Roderick Anderson wrote: > I am the treasurer (volunteer) for a small 501(c)(3). I have only > self-inflected OJT and this list for experience so this may be a not-GNUCash > question. > > How, or can, I make non monetary entries. I'm looking at when I file (US) > Fe

Re: [GNC] Need CSS help for 1 line

2020-02-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
I second trying Gtk Inspector though I've played with it for a few minutes last week for the first time. Here is a somewhat gentle introduction: https://blog.gtk.org/2017/04/05/the-gtk-inspector/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The p

[GNC] Transfers to subaccounts, hide the transaction?

2020-03-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is a bit complicated, of course! I have a main checking account with a number of subaccounts. So far so good as it is a concept that is working well. After a couple of months of this I can see some things becoming unwieldy, particularly when reconciling as I have numerous "transfer" transac

Re: [GNC] Transfers to subaccounts, hide the transaction?

2020-03-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 08 Mar 17:45 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > There’s no reason you can’t reconcile the transfers. You can even do > them separately if you like, though Stephen’s method of just marking > them clear as you go is probably better and simpler. I'm not quite understanding how that would wor

Re: [GNC] Transfers to subaccounts, hide the transaction?

2020-04-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 08 Mar 20:13 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > > On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 6:09 PM, Nate Bargmann > > wrote: > > > > * On 2020 08 Mar 17:45 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > >> There’s no reason you can’t reconcile the transfers. You can e

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2024-07-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 19 Jul 18:50 -0500, John Ralls wrote: > As I said, I see that as a documentation issue. The column labels have > to be terse and we can’t use per-item tooltips in the long run because > the Gtk folks have pulled them from Gtk4. It’s not great that Geert > changed the headings for the amou

Re: [GNC] Python bindings issue

2024-08-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 13 Aug 12:29 -0500, Gere Kiss Zsolt wrote: > Python 3.10.12 (main, Jul 29 2024, 16:56:48) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import gnucash > * 11:41:04 ERROR g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed > > Can some

Re: [GNC] Python bindings issue

2024-08-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 15 Aug 03:21 -0500, Gere Kiss Zsolt wrote: > Hi Jim, > > > > The obvious next question: when you installed the `python3-gnucash` > > package on your system, where exactly did it install its .py files? > > On /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages: > > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gnucash >

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2024-08-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 15 Aug 11:42 -0500, Gere Kiss Zsolt wrote: > Can you please elaborate? As I noted in my first reply on this topic, a bug report submitted to Ubuntu so the package maintainer can check to see if there is an error with the packaging may be useful. 22.04 is stated to be an LTS so Ubuntu sho

Re: [GNC] printing blank checks

2025-07-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2025 16 Jul 05:44 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > I think the *Characters* still need to be there, but probably don't need to be > magnetic anymore. Judging by the number of services that will accept the data to then let the user print a check on plain paper at home, I suspect the magnetic i