Re: [GNC] report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

2019-04-07 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Indeed.  I read that backwards, and advised how to get monthly subtotals. If you are in the US, you might explore the Tax Options settings, which, when combined with the TXF report, can make tax reporting very easy.  David On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 8:25, John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 7,

Re: [GNC] report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

2019-04-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 7, 2019, at 6:53 PM, Ron Eggler wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using GnuCash 2.6.12 and would like to create an annual report for tax > reporting purposes. For that, I would like to create a report where > transactions are grouped for the whole year, accounting period but instead, > I get

Re: [GNC] Fwd: report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

2019-04-07 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I'm pretty sure you should be able (even with your vintage Gnucash version) to create a transaction report with these settings.   Select the accounts you want, set the dates to "Start of previous year" and "End of previous year", leave primary sort alone, but change secondary sort to "Date"

[GNC] Fwd: report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

2019-04-07 Thread Ron Eggler
Hi, I'm using GnuCash 2.6.12 and would like to create an annual report for tax reporting purposes. For that, I would like to create a report where transactions are grouped for the whole year, accounting period but instead, I get them grouped by month. How can I change this? Thanks, Ron

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Feneis
Hi, Jack, In this case the issue is on Win 7-64 computer, and it appears I can only have a generous path length if I save within the windows' user folder. Otherwise I get an error message that claims I'm saving in a location where I'm not and that the location is reserved. Kind regards, Greg

[GNC] report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

2019-04-07 Thread Ron Eggler
Hi, I'm using GnuCash 2.6.12 and would like to create an annual report for tax reporting purposes. For that, I would like to create a report where transactions are grouped for the whole year, accounting period but instead, I get them grouped by month. How can I change this? Thanks, Ron

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread John Ralls
Indeed. I just tried C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash. No problem. What are your Language and Region settings? Have you set LANG and LANGUAGES in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment? Is your userid an Administrator?

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Jack Lockard
I found the following info on Dropbox and Windows 10: The Dropbox app for Windows 10 allows you to access your files, but it doesn't allow you to sync them to your PC. For Dropbox syncing you'll need to install the desktop sync app first. If you have not installed the sync app then all that is

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Feneis
John, I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder, so I tried this path and file name: C:\Xobpord\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (117

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread John Ralls
Just to completely rule out Dropbox being somehow involved, could you create the same hierarchy in your home directory, i.e. c:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\Gnucash Files\ I was able to successfully save C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I’m not sure how it works on Windows, but on my Mac, when I attempt to open certain files in my Dropbox folder (I am using the DropBox add-in that maps my DropBox to a folder in my system), I see a huge character string in the title bar, with a long repeating sequence of “../“ This doesn’t

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
OK. Thanks for pointing that out. > On Apr 7, 2019, at 9:50 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:33, David T. via gnucash-user >> wrote: >> >> Adrien, >> >> I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had >> extraneous spaces in the Description

Re: [GNC] search

2019-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Certainly not if they are in other splits. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On April 7, 2019 2:27:00 PM Jeff Abrahamson wrote: Ah, yes, it didn't occur to me that it wouldn't search through the split memos. Jeff Abrahamson http://p27.eu/jeff/

[GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread Volker Englisch
Yes, there is a warning when one tries to edit a reconciled transaction to notify the user about the potential of messing up. However, I have run into this bug several times myself: Successfully reconciling and ending up with one unreconciled transaction. This happens when the user edits one

Re: [GNC] search

2019-04-07 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
Ah, yes, it didn't occur to me that it wouldn't search through the split memos. Jeff Abrahamson http://p27.eu/jeff/ http://transport-nantes.com/ On 07/04/2019 18:48, John Ralls wrote: > Since it works when you search the whole book and fails when you search only > one account, I must ask if

Re: [GNC] individual stocks don't seem to add up to correct total.

2019-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Novica, The account that you call --stocks account should be of type Bank. It represents your brokerage account which is ddenominated in a currency, usually your local default currency. Thus it will usually have a month end balance of 0 in your currency. On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:13 PM Novica

Re: [GNC] individual stocks don't seem to add up to correct total.

2019-04-07 Thread Novica Nakov
I forgot to add: I'm using gnucash 3.4. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see

[GNC] individual stocks don't seem to add up to correct total.

2019-04-07 Thread Novica Nakov
Hi, I was trying to set up stocks in gnucash following https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock and as far as I can tell I didn't do anything wrong. What I got as a result was a hierarchy like this: -investments --stocks account ---stock 1 ---stock 2 I'm guessing that the stock account

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Feneis
Some more testing on the issue where 3.5 seems to want a shorter path than 2.6.x did: Just now, I exited Dropbox to see if that had something to do with it, but pretty much the same error for all three path variations, what worked historically with 2.6.x, no ampersand but some folder names used

Re: [GNC] search

2019-04-07 Thread John Ralls
Since it works when you search the whole book and fails when you search only one account, I must ask if you put the note in the memo field of the split for the account you're searching? Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 7, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > The list strips images, so

Re: [GNC] search

2019-04-07 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
The list strips images, so information was lost. I have an entry with a memo field containing the word (text string) "=JUSTIFICATIF". J On 07/04/2019 18:05, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > [This is gnucash 2.6.19 on linux.  Some day I'll upgrade to 3.x.] > > I have some transactions in which I've put

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:33, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Adrien, > > I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had > extraneous spaces in the Description field, and when I corrected that, the > transactions de-reconciled. > > There were no warnings. I

[GNC] search

2019-04-07 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
[This is gnucash 2.6.19 on linux.  Some day I'll upgrade to 3.x.] I have some transactions in which I've put a reminder that I am missing the bill or receipt so that (ideally) we will chase the person who owes it. But when I do a search for "description, note, or memo contains JUST" or even the

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Feneis
Sorry about the links, I posted this path length issues previously and so today I copied from that email and thought the screenshot links would still work. Apparently dropbox expired them. I don't know about the / VS \. Kind regards, Greg Feneis

Re: [GNC] Data Entry Loss

2019-04-07 Thread Dennis Marshall
David, et al, I am using Windows 10. I had not edited any view screen filters, so I am not sure how this happened yet. I fired up gnucash this a.m. and things were back to normal. I will check the Date settings and file path later today when I have a chance to investigate more fully. Dennis

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:32, Greg Feneis wrote: > > Hi John, > > The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used 2.6.x to > save to the same location without trouble. > > The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash >

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread David Carlson
David T Isn't that one of the warnings in the reset warnings setting? David Carlson On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, 10:40 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Adrien, > > I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had > extraneous spaces in the

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Adrien, I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had extraneous spaces in the Description field, and when I corrected that, the transactions de-reconciled. There were no warnings. I don’t believe I’ve ever set this option anywhere; how would a user locate the

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread Greg Feneis
Hi John, The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used 2.6.x to save to the same location without trouble. The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\(VerboseFileNameProbably30chars.gnucash) The last successful saves to

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, that’s very easy to accomplish. Most edits on a reconciled transaction will unset the flag. You should get a warning, but you may have dismissed it long ago. You can change this under Actions > Reset Warnings. If that is the case, simply re-reconcile. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 7, 2019, at

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

2019-04-07 Thread Harold via gnucash-user
Not sure how it happened. I have suspicion-ed in the past that somehow a reconciled transaction got un-reconciled.  Probably not possible, but just not sure. On Saturday, April 6, 2019, 3:17:58 AM CDT, Colin Law wrote: How did you successfully reconcile without selecting that

Re: [GNC] Data Entry Loss

2019-04-07 Thread Colin Law
The reason for me suggesting it is the filter specifically is the the OP said that the parent account totals are correct, so the transactions are in there somewhere. Colin On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 09:19, Colin Law wrote: > > Almost certainly you have set a filter on the view. Go into the >

Re: [GNC] Data Entry Loss

2019-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Dennis, What operating system is your computer using? David Carlson On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 3:22 AM Colin Law wrote: > Almost certainly you have set a filter on the view. Go into the > account with the missing transactions and select View > Filter By and > make sure that on the Date tab you

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-07 Thread David Carlson
Greg, Release 2.6.21 is supposed to be able to read data files that have been processed by releases in the 3.x series, The developers do want know about your issue with 3.5. David Carlson. On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 12:18 AM John Ralls wrote: > That's interesting. What is the path that's causing

Re: [GNC] v3.5

2019-04-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
For completeness, on a Mac, simply drag the .app bundle (inside the .dmg) to the install location (usually /Applications) and the Mac will dutifully ask if you want to replace the current installation, or retain both. It then copies the new version to that location and either overwrites the old

Re: [GNC] v3.5

2019-04-07 Thread David Cousens
Graham, Upgrading GnuCash is generally pretty painless and as you point out is no more complex than initial installation in most cases. As Colin said you should always have backups (I have 4 separate backups2 of which are off site to my computers). The main time you may strike problems is in

Re: [GNC] v3.5

2019-04-07 Thread Graham
On 07/04/2019 10:16, Colin Law wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 10:11, Graham wrote: Thanks, Gnus, for a successfully completed first year of use, after migrating from Quicken. The prospect of upgrading to 3.5 scares me witless! Is there an idiot's guide, or is it the same as installing in the

Re: [GNC] v3.5 Save Times

2019-04-07 Thread Ian K via gnucash-user
OK, well I will post my findings on the bug report. However, I would suggest that had the devs made a comment there stating that some changes had been made for 3.5 that they hope should improve the speed, but need to get more feedback, then there would be more incentive to download and test the

Re: [GNC] v3.5

2019-04-07 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 10:11, Graham wrote: > > Thanks, Gnus, for a successfully completed first year of use, after > migrating from Quicken. > > The prospect of upgrading to 3.5 scares me witless! Is there an idiot's > guide, or is it the same as installing in the first place? Presumably I > just

[GNC] v3.5

2019-04-07 Thread Graham
Thanks, Gnus, for a successfully completed first year of use, after migrating from Quicken. The prospect of upgrading to 3.5 scares me witless! Is there an idiot's guide, or is it the same as installing in the first place? Presumably I just need to ensure safe copies of data files somewhere.

Re: [GNC] Modifying Balance Sheet Report

2019-04-07 Thread Deva -
Paul, You can experiment with Edit->Report Options menu and see how the report changes with various options. In your particular case, you can set Price Source to “Average Cost” on the “Commodities” tab. That should give you what you are looking for. Please note that somewhere around 2.6.12 or

Re: [GNC] Transaction won't reconcile

2019-04-07 Thread Colin Law
Forwarding your message below to the list as you sent it just to me. It is necessary to use Reply All (or similar) when using this list. The critical thing is, if you start a new reconcile (which you can then cancel) does the Starting Balance shown match the final balance on the previous statement

Re: [GNC] Data Entry Loss

2019-04-07 Thread Colin Law
Almost certainly you have set a filter on the view. Go into the account with the missing transactions and select View > Filter By and make sure that on the Date tab you have selected Show All and on the Status tab all the boxes are selected. Colin On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 23:44, Dennis Marshall