documentation bug 687820

2017-02-06 Thread David Carlson
David, I received two emails from Gnucash saying that you added references to bug 778254 to bug 687820, but when I opened bug 687820 I could not find those references. FYI. David C ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: Lots in Account screen : Value sign

2016-11-19 Thread David Carlson
ot; and "Closing Transaction" terms? > > Regards, > Chris Good > > On 20 Nov 2016, at 5:54 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I do not currently use the lots feature either, but I agree that I would > not consider using

Re: Lots in Account screen : Value sign

2016-11-19 Thread David Carlson
I do not currently use the lots feature either, but I agree that I would not consider using it unless the display were consistent as Geert says the next version will be. Other use cases that would clearly benefit would be short sales and option transactions. I think that if the terms "Opening

Re: Guide Investment selling examples

2016-08-03 Thread David Carlson
can’t say with certainty, as the APR includes > everything in the GnuCash file, which for me is over 10 years’ data, and I > don’t track my gains that way. > > David T. > > On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:31 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Chris, >

Re: Guide Investment selling examples

2016-08-02 Thread David Carlson
Chris, I do not object to the change but take care to note that the so-called double entry only appears when the transaction is viewed from the security account or viewed in any account with multiple split lines for the "home" account within the transaction along with the difference between the

Re: New Account Dialog

2016-07-29 Thread David Carlson
Hi, I am now at a real computer keyboard and I have reviewed the current documentation on a device with a larger screen. The Tutorial seems to be far more detailed than I recall from the days when I was first learning how to use GnuCash. That is good. However, I think that new users may find

RE: New Account Dialog

2016-07-27 Thread David Carlson
Chris, This will be short as I am on a cell phone right now. I would like to see a summary paragraph that clarifies that a typical example of an account structure would include an asset account to represent an account at a brokerage firm. That would be denominated in your local currency and it

Re: New Account Dialog

2016-07-27 Thread david . carlson . 417
Related to this issue, I think that it is not very clear that there are accounts, currencies and commodities (or securities) in the data and that investment accounts require a unioue combination of all three items. There can be (in fact must be )many security accounts for the same

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread david . carlson . 417
I am not a developer but I recall seeing on one of the maillists very recently that the infrastructure changes required to get to a true database file structure should be completed sometime in 2018 (unless more volunteers step up to help).  Then ideas like yours might be possible.

Re: Bug 739571 - Matching imported transactions doesn't indicate previously matched entries

2016-01-24 Thread David Carlson
Re: Can you explain that a bit more? Under what circumstance would multiple transactions at your bank would be reflected as a single one in your book? When there are multiple accounts in the OFX file and there are transfers between them, you get duplicates. In files from one of my banks this

Re: Clarifications and guidance for a hopeful contributor

2016-01-18 Thread David Carlson
On 1/17/2016 7:03 AM, Tracy wrote: On 1/17/2016 01:31, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 16, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Jesse Olmer wrote: Hello, I've spent a few days going through the wiki, uservoice, HACKING & README files, commit history, list archive, and building and

Re: Flickering drop down boxes on mouse over

2015-12-29 Thread david . carlson . 417
I just read that 4K displays only refresh at 30 hz if they are connected through a standard HDMI cable.  Could you be seeing something along that line? Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT 4G LTE tablet -- Original message--From: Mike EvansDate: Tue, Dec 29, 2015 8:04 AMTo:

The GnuCash Website

2015-12-13 Thread David Carlson
Being the nit-picker that I am, I just noticed that the copyright notice at the bottom of every GnuCash.org webpage that I checked says " *Copyright © 2001-2014 The GnuCash Project" *I don't think GnuCash is really in a time warp. Anyway, now it won't be long before it can be changed to

Re: semantics of importer account_id

2015-11-03 Thread David Carlson
aqbanking and file OFX via libofx. cheers, ~!paul On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 07:11:42AM -0700, David Carlson wrote: I have used both QIF and OFX imports interchangeably on the same account without problems. I am not a computer programmer, but I don't see the problem. David C On Thu, Oct 29

Re: Internal Rate of Return in Advanced Portfolio

2015-11-02 Thread David Carlson
Apologies to Thomas. I originally read your post on my smartphone, or actually, I didn't, because there was no text visible there, just the subject. Now that I read it on a proper computer, I see your text. David C On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote:

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-22 Thread David Carlson
Pressing the plus key then correctly advanced the date to January 31. I hope those are the only issues. David C On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:35 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote:

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-22 Thread David Carlson
Oh, I completely forgot to mention that the new documentation page is much better. Sorry about forgetting to mention that. David C On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:59 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > Testing git rev 766cf48+ on 2015-09-18, I have a report using

Re: Help finding files to move to new PC

2015-09-20 Thread David Carlson
io that I am describing, since it > was under Windows, and I am not a Windows user, but perhaps someone who > experienced this will remember and help the OP. > > David T. > >> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:25 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >&g

Re: Help finding files to move to new PC

2015-09-20 Thread David Carlson
On 9/20/2015 9:12 PM, David Carlson wrote: > On 9/20/2015 8:37 PM, David T. wrote: >> David, I think that the OP stated his problem was not seeing top level >> accounts in his data file. >> >> I seem to recall at some point in GC’s history that there were circumstan

Re: Help finding files to move to new PC

2015-09-20 Thread David Carlson
On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 20 September 2015 at 20:49, Joe Chando wrote: >> I had a hardware failure (motherboard) so all data should be OK, I had used >> checking.gnucash as the file name (or so I thought) that was stored in a >> checking account folder. >>

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-19 Thread David Carlson
On 9/19/2015 11:17 AM, John Ralls wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2015, at 8:59 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I have installed the weekly build dated the 18th and started testing. I >> really like the new appearance of the transf

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-19 Thread David Carlson
gt; > >>>> I had to manually enter to continue. > > >>>> > > >>>> The exact same thing happens if I now use process payment and for > > >>>> test pay this (Euro denominated) invoice in HKD. Transfer dialog > > >>>> won't propose

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-12 Thread david . carlson . 417
I could accept your proposal if it is documented. I think a user could still go in later if he didn't like the online price for a certain date. Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT 4G LTE tablet ___ gnucash-devel mailing list

Re: Managing prices in stock transactions.

2015-09-04 Thread David Carlson
I will start over and use different language, but I still have issues to express. I was exploring ways to transform a copy of an existing stock purchase or sale of some number of shares of stock FOO into a similar purchase or sale of stock BAR on a different date and in a different brokerage

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-03 Thread David Carlson
I should split this off from the price rounding thread, but I don't know how to do that in GMail when I am replying from inside the thread. Ledger view doesn't show number of shares or prices, so I would still need to go the security account to check on/fix them. I do not see how to fill out the

Re: Managing prices in stock transactions.

2015-09-03 Thread David Carlson
On 9/3/2015 3:00 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> On Sep 3, 2015, at 11:03 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I should split this off from the price rounding thread, but I don't know how >> to do that in GMail when I am replying from

Editing Complicated Security Transactions

2015-09-03 Thread David Carlson
On 9/3/2015 1:03 PM, David Carlson wrote: > I should split this off from the price rounding thread, but I don't > know how to do that in GMail when I am replying from inside the thread. > > Ledger view doesn't show number of shares or prices, so I would still > need to go the s

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-03 Thread david . carlson . 417
forward to seeing the result of all your hard work. David C Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT 4G LTE tablet -- Original message--From: John RallsDate: Wed, Sep 2, 2015 7:56 PMTo: David Carlson;Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org;Subject:Re: Rounding in the price db. > On Sep 2, 2

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-02 Thread David Carlson
On 9/1/2015 10:01 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> SNIP... > David, > > Quotes from F::Q are supposed to overwrite user entries for the day, but > although F::Q is quite capable of retrieving historical quotes, GnuCash > doesn’t use that facility. So if you create a transaction with a date_posted > in

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-09-01 Thread David Carlson
On 9/1/2015 5:13 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> On Aug 28, 2015, at 8:17 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 6:43 AM, Geert Janssens >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Friday 28 August 2015 08:55:53 John Ralls wrote: I’ve pushed a feature

Re: Import Chapter beginning

2015-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/30/2015 12:57 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 8/28/2015 3:47 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Hi David, I'm unfortunately not using the import features at all so my input is only limited. Having said that I think your draft overview goes in the right direction. Regards, Geert On Thursday

Re: Import Chapter beginning

2015-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/28/2015 3:47 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Hi David, I'm unfortunately not using the import features at all so my input is only limited. Having said that I think your draft overview goes in the right direction. Regards, Geert On Thursday 27 August 2015 15:11:43 David T. wrote: As

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-08-19 Thread David Carlson
I have been watching this thread and am glad that this discussion is happening. The price db is also used in the reconciliation dialog when reconciling an account with subaccounts. The reconciliation dialog appears to use the most recent value, where I would expect it to use nearest in time to

Re: Rounding in the price db.

2015-08-19 Thread David Carlson
, for example, and it does not have to work well for every other uncommon scenario. David C On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:44 PM, David Carlson david.carlson@gmail.com wrote: I have been watching this thread and am glad

Obsolete reference on download pages

2015-06-10 Thread David Carlson
The Sourceforge Download pages http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/ reference *gnucash-2.6.5-setup.exe (96.6 MB) http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/latest/download?source=files*

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-05-04 Thread David Carlson
On 5/3/2015 9:57 PM, Dave H wrote: Sorry, I should have mentioned that the files I'm using (my normal GnuCash compressed xml files) import into version 1.5.5 fine with one little quirk - the Scheduled Transactions never show up - when I go to Scheduled Transactions all I see is the message No

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-05-01 Thread David Carlson
On 5/1/2015 2:36 PM, Ngewi Fet wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:58 PM, David Carlson david.carlson@gmail.com mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com wrote: OK Vicodin, thousands of KB, not thousands of MB. I am still having trouble sorting this thread in Gmail, tho. My

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-04-29 Thread David Carlson
On 4/29/2015 10:46 AM, Ngewi Fet wrote: I was able to open a copy of my regular desktop XML file with the Android Play store release of Gnucash for Android before installing the pre-beta. It looks like all the accounts are there, but so far I have not imported any transactions. I found

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-04-29 Thread David Carlson
On 4/29/2015 5:06 PM, Ngewi Fet wrote: Hi David, On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:13 PM, David Carlson david.carlson@gmail.com mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com wrote: My primary data file is 4,519KB compressed XML. When I use release 1.5.5 GnuCash for Android to open it, I do

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-04-29 Thread David Carlson
On 4/29/2015 4:29 AM, Ngewi Fet wrote: Hi David, On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:16 AM, David Carlson david.carlson@gmail.com mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for those references. I also found that by using 'File Manager I found that Gnucash Android has created

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-04-28 Thread David Carlson
I was able to install it to my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE over release 1.5.5 from the play store. I had to fumble a lot initially to figure out how Gnucash for android works in general. I finally succeeded in importing my account structure and created a couple of sample transactions, but it seemed very

Re: GnuCash Android v1.6.0 pre-beta

2015-04-28 Thread David Carlson
that the last time I played around with the app. I won't be upgrading to this latest beta for a week or so as I have some transactions I need to export from my phone and import into gnucash proper on my desktop. Cheers Dave H. On 29 April 2015 at 08:49, David Carlson david.carlson

Re: [PATCH] Budget report improvements (was Re: Budget reports)

2015-02-17 Thread David Carlson
On 2/17/2015 7:29 AM, Dmitry Pavlov wrote: If I get you right, you need ability to make a report for budget with specification of what periods to show in details, because for budgets with large number of periods, it is not convinient to analyze data. I think that my enhancements is what you

Re: Version 2.6.4

2014-11-27 Thread David Carlson
On 11/27/2014 12:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 27, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Wm wm+...@tarrcity.demon.co.uk wrote: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:49:26 b9ebc2ea-86a4-4c46-8596-426f77d14...@ceridwen.us John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us It could well be that GnuCash 2.6.4-2 doesn't exhibit the hang-on-exit

Re: Version 2.6.4

2014-11-26 Thread David Carlson
On 11/21/2014 11:08 AM, Wm wrote: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:00:53 b783f0d7-8dbc-4926-8139-29352347f...@ceridwen.us John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Wm wm+...@tarrcity.demon.co.uk wrote: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:23:38 9a4e0683-21e6-4e34-ac60-90f5cd414...@ceridwen.us John

Question about upcoming release

2014-09-21 Thread David Carlson
I just noticed as I was installing a recent weekly build (August 11 approx) onto a test machine with Windows vista that the default themes were a part of the installation. My question is whether there is a risk that some Windows users who have customized some of the things that have been

Re: Announcing GnuCash Android v1.4.0-beta1

2014-07-26 Thread David Carlson
On 7/26/2014 5:35 PM, Ngewi Fet wrote: I don't think compressed files will import. Only uncompressed XML. I need to also make that clear in the app too, I think. But yes, just import the normal file. It looks like this might be nice for tablets with large screens. :) Is there any

Re: Bug cleanup #4

2014-07-15 Thread David Carlson
On 7/15/2014 8:35 AM, Michalis Kamprianis wrote: Hi all, I believe the following bugs can close : Bug Nr | Description | Reason | Assigned to 122895 | general ledger should be named journal | Patch submitted | David Hampton 87652 | KVP

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-28 Thread David Carlson
On 5/25/2014 9:34 AM, John Ralls wrote: On 25 May 2014, at 07:19, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On 25 May 2014, at 01:54, Christian Stimming (mobil) christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Thanks for starting the discussion. If we've reached the point where our int64 rational numbers do not

Re: Budget View Implementation Question

2014-04-15 Thread David Carlson
On 4/15/2014 12:32 PM, Carsten Rinke wrote: Hi, recently I started playing around with the budget feature, trying it out with a simple account structure - only top level accounts. Doing so I noticed - In the summary view at the bottom of the page the totals per period are not counted for

Re: Documentation

2014-01-07 Thread David Carlson
On 1/7/2014 12:11 AM, David wrote: John, I began looking through these bugs. The first covers documentation for GnuCash 1.7, and is assigned to Chris Lyttle. I don't recognize the name; would someone take a look at the bug ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98292) and see

Re: Documentation file format

2013-12-16 Thread David Carlson
On 12/16/2013 6:32 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:49 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: All of which is utterly moot, because it doesn’t work with our documents: It requires that you open each file separately for editing. It will display the whole document just fine,

Re: Documentation

2013-12-12 Thread David Carlson
On 12/11/2013 9:47 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:29 PM, David T. sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: Um, yeah. My point is that the developer pool would like help with documentation, and most users would be happy to do that, if it matched their mental model on how to edit documents.

Re: Documentation

2013-12-11 Thread David Carlson
On 12/10/2013 10:27 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Dec 10, 2013, at 6:48 PM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:40 PM, John Ralls wrote: As we get down to the wire for releasing GnuCash 2.6, we still have 45 open documentation bugs. You can see the list at http

Re: Documentation

2013-12-11 Thread David Carlson
On 12/11/2013 9:47 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:29 PM, David T. sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: Um, yeah. My point is that the developer pool would like help with documentation, and most users would be happy to do that, if it matched their mental model on how to edit documents. For

Re: Documentation

2013-12-10 Thread David Carlson
On 12/10/2013 12:40 PM, John Ralls wrote: As we get down to the wire for releasing GnuCash 2.6, we still have 45 open documentation bugs. You can see the list at http://tinyurl.com/q6y4jvt; each bug on that list is a clickable link to the details. If you’ve been looking for a way to

Re: General Ledger - Can't Enter Transaction Amounts

2013-12-07 Thread David Carlson
On 12/6/2013 9:29 AM, David Carlson wrote: On 12/5/2013 5:51 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Monday 02 December 2013 08:45:32 John Ralls wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Ted Baker t...@eb-analytics.com wrote: Good Morning to the group; When using versions GnuCash 2.5.8 and GnuCash

Re: General Ledger - Can't Enter Transaction Amounts

2013-12-07 Thread David Carlson
On 12/7/2013 12:50 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 12/6/2013 9:29 AM, David Carlson wrote: On 12/5/2013 5:51 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Monday 02 December 2013 08:45:32 John Ralls wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Ted Baker t...@eb-analytics.com wrote: Good Morning to the group; When

Re: General Ledger - Can't Enter Transaction Amounts

2013-12-06 Thread David Carlson
On 12/5/2013 5:51 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Monday 02 December 2013 08:45:32 John Ralls wrote: On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Ted Baker t...@eb-analytics.com wrote: Good Morning to the group; When using versions GnuCash 2.5.8 and GnuCash 2.5.9 I am unable to enter new transactions

Re: account types

2013-11-20 Thread David Carlson
On 11/20/2013 6:08 AM, Martin Mainka wrote: Am 20.11.2013 12:57, schrieb David Carlson: On 11/20/2013 4:07 AM, Martin Mainka wrote: Hi, i noticed while translating chapter Accounts if the tutorial guide to German-language, that many account types (checking, trading, currency, other assets

Re: Traducción del Tutorial y guia de conceptos

2013-11-20 Thread David Carlson
On 11/20/2013 1:21 PM, Francisco Hierro Gomez wrote: Hola, Les escribo este mensaje para conocer el modo de subir a la pagina oficial de gnucash el TUTORIAL Y GUIA DE CONCEPTOS, traducido al español. Seria en formato pdf y por capitulos. Actualmente he traducido hasta el Capitulo 7,

Uncommitted release 2.4 x documentation

2013-11-19 Thread David Carlson
Several months ago I and a couple of other non-developers submitted some documentation updates via bugzilla that never got committed to the 2.4 documentation. Now it is pointless to commit them to 2.4 series, but they may still apply to release 2.6. How can we get them into the system? David C

Re: Uncommitted release 2.4 x documentation

2013-11-19 Thread David Carlson
On 11/19/2013 5:07 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:45 PM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Several months ago I and a couple of other non-developers submitted some documentation updates via bugzilla that never got committed to the 2.4 documentation. Now

Re: Uncommitted release 2.4 x documentation

2013-11-19 Thread David Carlson
On 11/19/2013 5:58 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 11/19/2013 5:07 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:45 PM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Several months ago I and a couple of other non-developers submitted some documentation updates via bugzilla that never got committed

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-13 Thread David Carlson
On 11/13/2013 7:09 PM, Patrick wrote: Indeed, a very relevant question. I had thought about storing the file itself in the database as a binary blob, but had concerns the db would grow too large and cause other stability issues. Also, that wouldn't work well with the XML back-end. I'm not

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread David Carlson
On 11/4/2013 12:36 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Troesch ttroe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.fremont.ca.us wrote: Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to write out the amount in words for each

Re: Importing QIF: Name Conflict with another account

2013-10-23 Thread David Carlson
On 10/23/2013 11:58 AM, marcha...@yahoo.com wrote: I am importing QIF data from a Calc spreadsheet with the Calc2Qif wizard Everything seems to be working fine except that I can't find a way to get the information mapped to the existing accounts. Duplicate accounts are created and I get

Re: Allowing the user to select the currency symbol

2013-09-25 Thread David Carlson
On 9/25/2013 10:02 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Frédéric Perrin f...@fperrin.net writes: Yes. OTOH, beyond the locale currency, we can't decide for the user what is meant by $ or £. Do you think this is too much trouble for something users won't bother to configure ? Possibly, yes. I guess we

Re: Register-2 Data Entry

2013-09-12 Thread David Carlson
On 9/12/2013 3:37 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: On 11/08/2013 04:34, John Ralls wrote: I guess I should have done this much sooner, but I tried using Register2. Some issues: * The number field is reproduced when copying a memorized transaction if it's left blank before tabbing out of the

Re: Register-2 Data Entry

2013-09-12 Thread David Carlson
On 9/12/2013 5:35 AM, David Carlson wrote: On 9/12/2013 3:37 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: On 11/08/2013 04:34, John Ralls wrote: I guess I should have done this much sooner, but I tried using Register2. Some issues: * The number field is reproduced when copying a memorized transaction

Re: Register-2 Data Entry

2013-09-12 Thread David Carlson
On 9/12/2013 9:08 AM, David Carlson wrote: On 9/12/2013 5:35 AM, David Carlson wrote: On 9/12/2013 3:37 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: On 11/08/2013 04:34, John Ralls wrote: I guess I should have done this much sooner, but I tried using Register2. Some issues: * The number field

Re: GnuCash OFX import not matching accounts of same ID

2013-09-12 Thread David Carlson
On 9/12/2013 5:08 PM, Ngewi Fet wrote: I don't think it would break anything to have it do a look-and-see and fall back to current behavior if it does not find a match. Agreed, If you look at the GNC Account GUID first, I cannot think of any current use case it could break. Good to

Re: GnuCash OFX import not matching accounts of same ID

2013-09-12 Thread David Carlson
On 9/12/2013 7:34 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 9/12/2013 5:08 PM, Ngewi Fet wrote: I don't think it would break anything to have it do a look-and-see and fall back to current behavior if it does not find a match. Agreed, If you look at the GNC Account GUID first, I cannot think of any

Re: GnuCash OFX import not matching accounts of same ID

2013-09-09 Thread David Carlson
On 9/4/2013 11:01 AM, Ngewi Fet wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us writes: On Sep 4, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: The importer does map the OFX Account ID to the GNC Account, but it does not

Re: Transaction register question

2013-08-19 Thread David Carlson
On 8/19/2013 11:08 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: David, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net writes: [snip] Forms can and should contain navigation shortcuts. They also do not need to be in a window that hides everything else in the display. The fact that many sub-optimal forms exist

Fwd: Re: Transaction register question

2013-08-17 Thread David Carlson
Forgot that I have a different email address for this list. Ignore the misspelling of 'round'. David C 0xDC7C8BF3.asc Description: application/pgp-keys ---BeginMessage--- On 8/17/2013 7:29 AM, Robert Kesterson wrote: Geert Janssens wrote: Hi Robert, From your message I couldn't derive your

Re: Transaction register question

2013-08-17 Thread David Carlson
On 8/17/2013 12:05 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: [ Moving this to devel, as it's not really a user question anymore] On 17-08-13 15:53, David Carlson wrote: Hi Robert, interested users and developers, I think that development of register2 or some other replacement for the current method

Re: Register-2 Data Entry

2013-08-11 Thread David Carlson
On 8/10/2013 1:34 PM, John Ralls wrote: I guess I should have done this much sooner, but I tried using Register2. Some issues: * The number field is reproduced when copying a memorized transaction if it's left blank before tabbing out of the description field. * Return doesn't commit the

Re: Default split order in release 2.5.3

2013-07-23 Thread David Carlson
On Sunday, 7/21/2013 10:03 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2013, 07:21:19 schrieb David Carlson: I have noticed that the order of the split lines in a split transaction does not default to the same order as it does in in the old register style of previous releases

Default split order in release 2.5.3

2013-07-18 Thread David Carlson
I have noticed that the order of the split lines in a split transaction does not default to the same order as it does in in the old register style of previous releases. This is most noticeable in paycheck transaction entries, but if I track purchase details at certain stores, it appears there

Re: Release 2.5.3 crashes randomly

2013-07-12 Thread David Carlson
On Thursday, 7/11/2013 3:54 PM, Kim Wood wrote: David, I agree with John's caution about old new registers. I am running Windows 8, and have been using the GnuCash unstable 2.5.3 builds extensively. I usually run the latest nightly build, and enter transactions daily. I do not recall

Re: Release 2.5.3 crashes randomly

2013-07-11 Thread David Carlson
On Thursday, 7/11/2013 11:00 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net writes: In Windows 7 64 bit I had found a work-around to edit scheduled transactions successfully, or so I thought. I tried using it on a different file and after the third scheduled transaction edit

Release 2.5.3 crashes randomly

2013-07-09 Thread David Carlson
In Windows 7 64 bit I had found a work-around to edit scheduled transactions successfully, or so I thought. I tried using it on a different file and after the third scheduled transaction edit GnuCash crashed in a seemingly random event. Then, after re-starting GnuCash 2.5.3 on the same file,

Re: Report system legacy

2013-06-29 Thread David Carlson
On Saturday, 6/29/2013 10:38 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On 29-06-13 16:52, John Ralls wrote: On Jun 29, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: Thanks all for your feedback. I'll keep from this that duplicate names among custom reports are not desired. To which I

Re: New Register style

2013-06-12 Thread David Carlson
On 6/12/2013 1:45 PM, Kevin Oberlies wrote: I have discovered that I don't like using the New Register style in the 2.5.2 version of Gnucash. Is there a way to change the default behavior when opening an account to always use the Old Style Register Account? Unless of course someone can tell

Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.x Register

2013-05-30 Thread David Carlson
On 5/30/2013 12:12 AM, David T. wrote: David-- I am on OS X Mountain Lion, as originally noted. It is implied, but I have been using colored account tabs for several years myself; apparently, this feature has disappeared in the development release of 2.5.2. Since this development

Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

2013-05-30 Thread David Carlson
On 5/30/2013 11:04 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2013 08:38:16 David Carlson wrote: I am the other David- David Carlson. Last night I installed 2.5.2 windows build on Windows 7 64 bit. If you look at the IRC channel, I started documenting 3 errors when opening a file

Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

2013-05-29 Thread David Carlson
___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel I am the other David- David Carlson. Last night I installed 2.5.2 windows build on Windows 7 64 bit. If you look at the IRC channel, I started documenting 3 errors when opening a file

Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

2013-05-29 Thread David Carlson
On 5/29/2013 3:26 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013, 14:53:06 schrieb David T.: Having loaded the new register, I see what folks have been saying about the screen flag for future transactions. Personally I think it does not work. Users looking at the register see it

Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

2013-05-29 Thread David Carlson
On 5/29/2013 6:48 PM, David T. wrote: John-- I pulled down 2.5.2 last night, and I see that the load time has improved. But it still takes over 30 seconds to load my checking register. That's too long. The colored tabs are still not displaying. (By this, I mean when one sets an account

Re: Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-15 Thread David Carlson
On 5/15/2013 6:18 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2013 14:43:03 David Carlson wrote: Since I was in my download directory, I re-installed 2.5.0 and found that the chart reports are blank in tat release too. David C If fact this problem turned out to be easy

Re: Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-14 Thread David Carlson
On 5/14/2013 10:09 AM, Johannes Kapune wrote: Am 14.05.2013 16:00, schrieb John Ralls: On May 14, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Monday 13 May 2013 21:50:04 John Ralls wrote: On May 13, 2013, at 9:32 PM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote

Re: Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-14 Thread David Carlson
On 5/14/2013 2:17 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 5/14/2013 10:09 AM, Johannes Kapune wrote: Am 14.05.2013 16:00, schrieb John Ralls: On May 14, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Monday 13 May 2013 21:50:04 John Ralls wrote: On May 13, 2013, at 9:32 PM

Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-13 Thread David Carlson
Version 2.5.1 Reports that contain charts are not being created in Windows 7 64 bit. All I see is a white window. The options can be changed, but saving as pdf created a blank window and the save as html and trying to view it with Firefox created a memory leak that eventually stalled my entire

Re: Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-13 Thread David Carlson
On 5/13/2013 10:29 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Monday 13 May 2013 09:44:21 David Carlson wrote: Version 2.5.1 Reports that contain charts are not being created in Windows 7 64 bit. All I see is a white window. The options can be changed, but saving as pdf created a blank window

Re: Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

2013-05-13 Thread David Carlson
On 5/13/2013 10:38 PM, John Ralls wrote: On May 13, 2013, at 11:59 AM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I am glad you asked. In one case it was a net worth linechart that was left open after being created initially in release 2.4.13 or earlier. I did not try to save this one

Re: Time for 2.5.1

2013-05-10 Thread David Carlson
On 5/10/2013 3:31 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Monday 06 May 2013 08:32:02 David Carlson wrote: On 5/5/2013 3:25 AM, Robert Fewell wrote: Alex, There is only one header row but the titles change depending on which row you are on in the register. This is deliberate to utilises

Re: Time for 2.5.1

2013-05-10 Thread David Carlson
On 5/10/2013 7:48 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 10 May 2013 07:04:23 David Carlson wrote: On 5/10/2013 3:31 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Why do you want the new register to bevisibly different ? Geert Well, to start off, so that I can tell while testing

Re: Time for 2.5.1

2013-05-09 Thread David Carlson
On 5/9/2013 8:53 AM, Robert Fewell wrote: David, Not sure about the schedule problem you have, I have tried it on my XP VM and I am unable to reproduce but will try different options. The opening of an account in the sub-account view should be read only and I have fixed this locally and

Re: Time for 2.5.1

2013-05-09 Thread David Carlson
On 5/9/2013 12:12 PM, David Carlson wrote: On 5/9/2013 8:53 AM, Robert Fewell wrote: David, Not sure about the schedule problem you have, I have tried it on my XP VM and I am unable to reproduce but will try different options. The opening of an account in the sub-account view should be read

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