Re: Installation

Adrien,  Log files have to be visible to the user, so that when they have to recover from an error state in their files, they can use them to restore.  David On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:05, Adrien Monteleone wrote: It would seem to me the ‘cleaner’ option to

Re: Users replying to digest rather than starting a new thread

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:29:13 + Matt Graham wrote: > Probably stupid question – is there a way to set rules on the > gnucash-user account? > > Ie anytime someone sends an email that starts with “Re gnucash-user > Digest”, the system rejects their email with a

Re: New Entities

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 20:06:35 -0600 David Carlson wrote: > Matt, > > You bring up a good point. I have seen a suggestion somewhere to use > virtual machines to sandbox GnuCash files and keep them isolated from > each other. > > I think that is Overkill but it works.

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

Rich, Do you have a printer of any sort installed for the business user and not the personal user ? Cheers Dave H On 13 Feb. 2018 9:14 am, "John Ralls" wrote: > > > > On Feb 12, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018,

Re: Installation

Jonathan, Instead of clicking on the file to open it, did you try clicking the Gnucash application icon first? Did it successfully open the last file saved? I think throughout this thread, there’s been lots of guessing as to what might be the problem, but if you can give us a click-by-click of

Re: Installation

It would seem to me the ‘cleaner’ option to store the log and lock files in some data directory like ".gnucash" "\Application Data\Gnucash" or "~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash" (or otherwise as per the OS recommendations) than have everything lumped together. Then, the user can store

Re: inventory management examples or links

Gnucash can easily track inventory valuations. You can set up asset accounts for various needed inventory categories as desired and expense accounts for Costs of Goods Sold, Damaged/Spoiled inventory, Free Samples, etc. What it cannot do with ease, is track quantities on hand. That really

Re: Print a list of unpaid bills

There is one other option I forgot to mention. If you get in the habit of ‘reconciling’ your AP account register (clearing each bill and each matching payment) you can filter the view of the AP register to show only unreconciled entries. (under View > Filter By) While as far as I know, this

Re: Print a list of unpaid bills

There is a way to see a list of unpaid bills, but there is not a way to print that list, sadly. Go to Business > Vendors > Find Bill. Change the search criteria to “Is Paid?” and uncheck the box to the right of the criteria and click the Find button. You will get a list of all unpaid bills.

Re: Trading Accounts

Be sure to compare what Gnucash generates to what your broker reports to the government. Gnucash has trouble calculating the net gain that the IRS wants to see. Many of us still use spreadsheet s to compare to the brokerage reports that are sent to the IRS. David C On Feb 12, 2018 2:27 PM,

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: > >> What happens when you try to print from the personal account? > > John, > > That's what I'm trying to do with these reports. The message box, "Error > printing.

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, John Ralls wrote: What happens when you try to print from the personal account? John, That's what I'm trying to do with these reports. The message box, "Error printing. Operation not supported." appears when I view a report and select the Print menu item, then select

Re: Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm running 2.6.19 here on Slackware-14.2 with two separate accounts: > business and personal. > > From the business account I can print trial balance, profit & loss, and > balance sheet for 2017

Cannot print reports: 2.6.19

Hi folks, I'm running 2.6.19 here on Slackware-14.2 with two separate accounts: business and personal. From the business account I can print trial balance, profit & loss, and balance sheet for 2017 to a disk file. From the personal account I cannot print any of them. Is there a

Re: Retracting posted invoice without removing transactions

Dear Geert, Geert Janssens writes: > I believe the proper way to do this is to create a credit note. > > You can do so most easily by selecting the bad invoice and then choose > Duplicate Invoice. The window that pops up will allow you to select credit > note to create

Re: Retracting posted invoice without removing transactions

I believe one way to do this is to create a credit note. You can do so most easily by selecting the bad invoice and then choose Duplicate Invoice. The window that pops up will allow you to select credit note to create such a note that will "undo" the invoice. Regards, Geert Sascha Silbe

Re: Trading Accounts

I ran a balance sheet for 2016 and compared the two.  Everything looks the same until I reach the equity account.  Here is where the difference occurs (and I completely missed it initially).  In the GC file without the use of Trading Accounts, I have unrealized gains, whereas in the GC file

Re: Installation

On 02/12/2018 10:45 AM, David Carlson wrote: However, one reason (of several) that I personally am not using a cloud service yet is that I do not see how the cloud would handle all all those log files coming and going and data files being renamed every few minutes. I used to keep my files on 

Retracting posted invoice without removing transactions

Hello, how can I retract (invalidate) an already posted invoice without removing the existing transaction or altering the amounts of the transaction? (The invoice was created using the Business functions) A customer requested an invoice to be split so I need to retract the original invoice and

Re: single line register display

Maybe "memo" is the run term.  I meant "notes", the field appearing below "description" in the two line register display. (no splits). Dennis On 2/12/2018 13:33, Derek Atkins wrote: The memo of which split? There are (at least) two. -derek On Mon, February 12, 2018 2:30 pm, Dennis West

Re: single line register display

The memo of which split? There are (at least) two. -derek On Mon, February 12, 2018 2:30 pm, Dennis West wrote: > I wonder how difficult it would be to modify (or add an additional > option) to the register display.  I much prefer the single line display > because of the larger number of

single line register display

I wonder how difficult it would be to modify (or add an additional option) to the register display.  I much prefer the single line display because of the larger number of transactions it displays.  I do really miss the "memo" field however.  On a wide display, the "description" field is

Re: Installation

Hello, I believe that simply having a different (configurable) directory for backups would ease the confusion of a lot of new users (and lessen the time spend answering those question.) While probably not the best long term solution (especially when we get to a database backend,) I bet it's a

A predictive bar graph needed

[1]adrien.monteleone at gmail.com On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6.33 PM, wrote >There is an expense and income graph that shows bars over months. You can >also get a data table for each. >Then, there is a future scheduled transaction report you can run. So set up >your recurring income/expenses to see

Re: Trading Accounts

If you read Christopher's links, they go into the theory behind the development of trading accounts. I personally do not need them for my use, so I am not conversant with how they work. I think that you may need them, based on the fact that you are looking into using them, but I cannot help with

Re: Installation

Michael, I agree that the backup scheme should be as idiot proof as possible. However, one reason (of several) that I personally am not using a cloud service yet is that I do not see how the cloud would handle all all those log files coming and going and data files being renamed every few

Re: Installation

On 2/12/2018 10:08 AM, David Carlson wrote: Johnathan, GnuCash may or may not play well with various cloud storage services because of it's insistence (in current releases) on keeping it's automatic backups in the same folder as the data file. Just so understood why it makes sense (to me)

Re: Installation

Johnathan, GnuCash may or may not play well with various cloud storage services because of it's insistence (in current releases) on keeping it's automatic backups in the same folder as the data file. You need to untangle that issue before assuming that GnuCash does not work. Try keeping your

Re: Installation

On 2/11/2018 10:04 PM, Jonathan Ames wrote: Thanks, all, for advice. Just not happening, though. I can see the latest file in a directory, but get "file not found" when clicking on it. By now, a lot of lost work. Am I correct in assuming that unlike commercial software, gnucash doesn't save

Re: inventory management examples or links

I have an inventory of books I keep on a spreadsheet. I've designed the spreadsheet to give me an average cost that I can then plug into gnucash.  Do you want a screenshot of my inventory account? I could probably get to that this afternoon central time. Rick Copple On Feb 12, 2018, 6:26 AM,

Re: Trading Accounts

Hi Les Really interesting question, with a simple and a complicated answer. Simple answer: I think Trial Balance would differ if you deal with multiple currencies or stock (i.e. multiple conversions with differing dates and prices). Complicated answer:

Re: Trading Accounts

I have a "test" laptop with GC 2.6.17 running the latest Linux Mint.  I opened GC and tried using Trading Accounts, did check and repair, noted the totals of assets, liabilities, income and expense before and after.  There was no difference.  I then ran a Income and Expense report for year

Re: Installation

Jonathan, Did you see my earlier message? Getting a "file not found" error usually means that you have moved the Gnucash file. Have you? David On February 12, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Ames wrote: Thanks, all, for advice. Just not happening, though. I can see the

inventory management examples or links

Hello All. This is a nice treat about Inventory but are there some “real examples” or “ putting it all together” of gnucash for Inventory or stock of goods management? And how this is covered with the invoice. I now that gnu cash is not build for that but small stock would be nice Woocommerce

Re: Trading Accounts

It would be more fun to make a test copy of an existing file!  David C On Feb 12, 2018 4:13 AM, "Les" wrote: > Thanks, Adrien, David & Christoph for your replies. I think opening a new > GC file and testing Trading Accounts is a good idea. > > Regards, > > Les > > > On