Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Note that adding the price source column to the security list will allow you to see at a glance which source all your stocks are using.  On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:17, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: First, make sure that _none_ of your stocks are requesting quotes through yahoo.

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread John Ralls
No, the #e means that it's an exact number (1491/100) instead of a floating-point one. That's a Good Thing™. Are you getting the "Unable to create price quotes for these items" dialog? Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 13, 2019, at 8:38 PM, Kaman Wu wrote: > > I do not use yahoo (Just use

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread John Ralls via gnucash-user
Bet it took you three times because you didn't realize that you can open Tools>Securities, go to the right end of the header, click the little arrow and select Source to add the quote source to the display columns, then click that column header to sort on it. Namespace (e.g. NYSE) is still the

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread Kaman Wu
I do not use yahoo (Just use yahoo_json) when I use gnc-fq-helper, I got: (("8282" (symbol . "8282") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2019-08-12 12:00:00") (last . #e14.91) (currency . "CAD"))) Is #e14.91 a problem? Thanks, On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:35 PM David Reiser wrote: > First, make sure that

Re: [GNC] Problem with save-as

2019-08-13 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 2:52 PM, James Fuller wrote: > > > I tried to use the save as to change the name of a file last evening. Here is > what I did: > > from the File drop down menu I chose Save-As, When the next screen popped up > it asked for the name I wanted to use. I chose and

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
First, make sure that _none_ of your stocks are requesting quotes through yahoo. (yahoo_json is OK, though). It took me about 3 tries going through my stocks list to track down the straggling reference. Any stock whose online quote source is yahoo will cause the entire retrieval effort to fail.

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am Mi., 14. Aug. 2019 um 03:30 Uhr schrieb Kaman Wu : > > Hello, I still need someone help me. > > I made changes of Cdnfundlibrary.pm. Now when I run: > > perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary 8282 > > I could get: > > PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread Kaman Wu
Hello, I still need someone help me. I made changes of Cdnfundlibrary.pm. Now when I run: perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary 8282 I could get: PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary 8282 Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: symbol: 8282

Re: [GNC] Problem with save-as

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The dates are appended to backups that GnuCash makes. If you just save a file on your own, how would it presume to know to append the date to the file name? Why would it alter your chosen file name? Why would you not want the next save to overwrite the current file? Regards, Adrien > On Aug

[GNC] Problem with save-as

2019-08-13 Thread James Fuller
I tried to use the save as to change the name of a file last evening. Here is what I did: from the File drop down menu I chose Save-As,  When the next screen popped up it asked for the name I wanted to use. I chose and entered databack.  I then went to the Places select box and clicked on

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/13/2019 10:57 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: The Gnucash documentation could make some general statements about differences between Gnucash and other accounting software, but it would be too much to expect specifics about the other software. Dale Gnucash IS ordinary, run of the mill, double

Re: [GNC] Problems moving vertical lines between columns on registers

2019-08-13 Thread Greg Feneis
You can also double click the column headers of all but the description column. Last, double click the header for the description column. This automatically sets the columns' widths to just the minimum needed to display the contents of the fields, except the description column. Description column

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 197, Issue 31

2019-08-13 Thread Rick Mobley
David, Perfect! The right click is what I was missing. Now I can work with the tab bar in either position. Thank you very much. Rick Message: 3 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:44:57 -0500 From: David Carlson To: Adrien Monteleone Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Default tab on open Message-ID:

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread John Morris
Curiouser and curiouser. I just booted my 2014 MacBook Pro in Mojave. I was hoping to see good results, but I was disappointed. My experience on Mojave was identical to my experience on El Capitan. I first tried changing just the day of the week and creating a new set of books. Then, I tried

Re: [GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund

2019-08-13 Thread Ove Grunnér
Sorry, I don't know, I'm using Linux, so directories will be very different. br Ove. On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 03:05, Kaman Wu wrote: > Hello Ove, > > I try to change the code by myself. I am using windows 10 right now. > > I find the perl code > at: >

Re: [GNC] Scroll through tabs

2019-08-13 Thread Catscrash
Am 13.08.19 um 07:44 schrieb Liz: > I tried it today on Debian. I've never used this feature, but > experimented. > Debian Buster/Sid > Gnucash > Version: 3.4 > Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) > Finance::Quote: 1.47 > __ so, what was the result of your experiment? ;-)

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 17:00, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I think Christopher confirmed earlier that the Transaction Report code is not > considering locale at all. > > There’s already a bug on it from 2015: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752395 > > Though it seems at that

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread John Morris
Hi Michael, Thank you for chiming in. This is very good news. Perhaps I just need to move further up the OS ladder. I'm currently working with a 2008 MacBook Pro that cannot run anything beyond El Capitan. However, I do also plan to move my 2014 MacBook Pro to Mojave. If it works correctly

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread John Morris
Hi Adrien, Thanks for the clarification. I certainly agree that this could be a problem in GTK. I don't have enough information about GnuCash's inner workings to make that judgment. Best, John > On Aug 13, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > But I don’t think GnuCash is doing

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread John Morris
Hi Catscrash, Thank you for confirming that at least someone can get GnuCash to use Monday as the first day of the week. Unfortunately, the pictures did not come through, but I believe you that it is working on your system. I'm not sure how to describe the report I'm referring to. On my

Re: [GNC] Default tab on open

2019-08-13 Thread David Carlson
I leave lots of tabs open across the top of the window. When I want to go to a tab that I cannot see, I right click on the tab bar and choose the tab from the dropdown list. David Carlson On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 10:30 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Rick, > > It

Re: [GNC] Default tab on open

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rick, It might not be as bad as you fear. I never used the scroll feature and just kept closing tabs as they got too numerous. I don’t keep my GnuCash window full width to allow for some other windows on the same screen. (bills & Invoices due reminders and the upcoming SX along with a

Re: [GNC] Default tab on open

2019-08-13 Thread Rick Mobley
Yes, by the end of the month, I will likely have 10 tabs open while I am creating invoices. With the tabs at the top, they disappear off to the right and I can't just "click" on one I can't see without scrolling to the right. Scrolling now is one tab at a time instead of mouse wheel to the

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-13 Thread Dale Alspach
The problem is actually that in these consumer oriented packages the paradigm is different. In Gnucash the chart of accounts is fundamental. In Quickbooks the initial screen shows a set of tasks: add a customer, pay bills, enter charges, etc. Clicking on these brings up a set of account names,

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Presently, they are all set to en_US.UTF-8, but when I switch to UK, they are all en_GB.UTF-8 like yours. Note that changing only the first day of the week (and leaving the locale alone) in System Preferences doesn’t change any locales for me. (but presumably writes the ‘first_weekday 2’ line

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 14:52, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Thanks Michael, > > That is interesting. > > I just changed my Mac to UK, even restarted the computer, still the date > picker shows Sunday as the first day. > > Maybe this is a change in Mojave? > > Maybe some sort of user profile

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Fred, so we know it isn’t a 3.6 change. (though I do see the SX Editor starts on Sunday now instead of Monday, which isn’t consistent with the locale) Regards, Adrien > On Aug 13, 2019, at 5:17 AM, Fred Bone via gnucash-user > wrote: > > On 13 August 2019 at 2:57, Adrien Monteleone

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Michael, That is interesting. I just changed my Mac to UK, even restarted the computer, still the date picker shows Sunday as the first day. Maybe this is a change in Mojave? Maybe some sort of user profile corruption myself and the OP share? Anyone out there on Mojave with Monday

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Christopher Lam writes: > On Tue., 13 Aug. 2019, 11:12 John Morris, wrote: > >> I set this up with a simple transaction report by setting the date range >> to run from the "start of previous month" to "today". I then set the >> primary sort key to "Date" and the primary subtotal for date key

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Lawrence Joy via gnucash-user
I lived in Singapore for four years and their first day of the week is Monday. There are other other countries that follow this also, I believe Spain is one of them.--Regards, Larry ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Fred Bone via gnucash-user
On 13 August 2019 at 2:57, Adrien Monteleone said: > Hmm.. > > Is there anyone using Windows with a Monday first setup that works > correctly? Windows 10, system week-start setting is Monday. 2.6.21: The calendar in the SX Editor starts the week on Monday. I have no idea where it derives the

Re: [GNC] Default tab on open

2019-08-13 Thread Colin Law
Can I just check that you realise you can have multiple tabs open at once, each showing an account. So to switch accounts you just need to click on the tab. Colin On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 01:04, Rick Mobley wrote: > > Is there a place to set a "default" tab to open up to? I'd like for it to >

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-13 Thread Fred Bone
On 12 August 2019 at 12:57, Mike or Penny Novack said: > On 8/12/2019 12:45 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote: > > This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry > > bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case > > transaction, even though by definition everything

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:36, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. >> >> I have the following: >> >> Assets:Current Assets:Currency >> >> And under that I have: >> >>

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:13, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I spoke too soon. > > It turns out that GIMP has a date picker when editing meta data. > > It also does not honor the first day of week setting in MacOS preferences. > > So this is a problem with GTK, not just GnuCash. > > The

Re: [GNC] Plot Size on Piechart reports

2019-08-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I'm pretty sure that this code isn't making sizing decisions based on readability-- at least not in my experience.  It is perfectly happy to cram huge amounts of data into tiny on screen areas... Percentages default to 100%, but remember previously stored values.  On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. > > I have the following: > > Assets:Current Assets:Currency > > And under that I have: > > Cash in Wallet > Coin Jar > Envelopes > > The latter was for an

Re: [GNC] Problems moving vertical lines between columns on

2019-08-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
As covered in the note at https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-running-gnucash.html#basics-register2 On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 5:40, David Carlson wrote: James, Keep in mind that in the register view the description column is a special case that essentially defaults to

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I spoke too soon. It turns out that GIMP has a date picker when editing meta data. It also does not honor the first day of week setting in MacOS preferences. So this is a problem with GTK, not just GnuCash. The question is then, can a proper locale file be stored by the user to override the

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
But I don’t think GnuCash is doing that. (telling the widget to draw a calendar with first_weekday set to ‘Monday’) It is calling GtkCalendar() and that widget doesn’t have a setting for defining the first day. Now, since it seems to work on Ubuntu as another user reported, maybe the widget is

Re: [GNC] Plot Size on Piechart reports

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could see how more actual slices (regardless of how many accounts were chosen) would maybe trigger a larger size than a really small one specified for readability. But still, that should be only a default behavior and should not override a specified size. I think yes, the percentage is based

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. I have the following: Assets:Current Assets:Currency And under that I have: Cash in Wallet Coin Jar Envelopes The latter was for an experiment trying to shoehorn the envelope method into GnuCash. (nutshell - it

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry via gnucash-user
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:07, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to include that in order to see the Income option for type, > you need to first choose an Income account as a parent. (or make it another > top level account) > > Regards, > Adrien Thanks, Adrien. That solved the

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Sign Reverses

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 12:12 AM, Christopher Lam > wrote: > > Maybe I'm being thick here, but it's still not easy. We need to start with > the knowledge that *internally* income amounts are negative -- after all they > usually balance with positive asset amounts. Also, liability amounts are

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry, I forgot to include that in order to see the Income option for type, you need to first choose an Income account as a parent. (or make it another top level account) Regards, Adrien > On Aug 13, 2019, at 2:06 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Changing the account type to Income first

[GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
I have set up some accounts as Liabilities and want to change them to Income. This can’t be done by deleting the accounts and transferring the transactions to another account because only Liability Accounts are offered as alternative destinations. I would like to export the transactions to