Re: [GNC] GnuCash Forum

2021-01-06 Thread r0bis
Hi Rob, I actually started just like you and GnuCash grew on me. I posted an answer on StackExchange::PersonalFinance that explains how I started using it and how I found it useful. Key concept here is - gradually, start with something and then build. It will need iterations for you to become bett

[GNC] Thanks for interface improvement - import TXNs

2021-01-06 Thread r0bis
Huge thanks to developers. In the latest GnuCash version (gnome, gtk-3, arch linux) upon importing I now have a combo type dropdown below every /matched/ transaction that lets me see the transactions I had entered by hand previously. So for example I entered the Txn on the day of 21/12/2020 and th

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Forum

2021-01-06 Thread r0bis
Thanks David, Jumped in after a long time, in fact I was posting here for the first time and I did not register the post date; sorry for this very belated reply. You are right - common solutions do belong together in documentation and howtos. I really like the readability of StackExchange, probab

Re: [GNC] Thanks for interface improvement - import TXNs

2021-01-06 Thread r0bis
Hi David, I am running 4.2 version (Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26)) - I am getting this from the official community repo. See: https://archlinux.org/packages Actually it now should be 4.4. - I just have not updated for a month. Best wishes, Robert -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.c

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Relative paths in transaction associations

2019-06-30 Thread r0bis
Justin, thank you very much! Your posts (especially the last) are extremely useful to understand GnuCash behaviour and how to use attachments to transaction. Since you have gone through this process, would you perhaps comment on the following: 1) Do you have a sample snippet where I can see what

Transaction report ?? currency symbol

2018-03-04 Thread r0bis
Hi, I am running gnucash from a container. Everything seemed to work fine but then I run a transaction report and you can see in the image that currency symbol is represented by ??For that container (Ubuntu) locale is en_US, but I have set default currency to GBP as my transactions are in pounds. I

Re: Transaction report ?? currency symbol

2018-03-05 Thread r0bis
Thanks Adrien, I sorted this issue. It was the case that docker image had no specific locale set so it was the fallback to POSIX/ASCII Once I compiled the docker image with correct locale everything was fine: FROM ubuntu MAINTAINER "R" ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive RUN apt-get update -q &&

Re: Transaction report ?? currency symbol

2018-03-08 Thread r0bis
I agree, it is a generic solution. However Docker is becoming more popular these days and it is really helpful to get GnuCash working on distributions that do not carry GnuCash for wahtever reason. AFAIK it works even cross platform - you can run the same imege on Windows too. Finance management is