Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Long
i only have one more question, can you help me ? like you saw in my picture, you can see that my currencies is VietNam. But in VietNam, for a long time ago, We (My Country) don't use decimal anymore. My Country currencies smallest fraction is 1 (without ",00") But GnuCash auto set my currencies is

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Christopher Lam
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, 1:00 pm Adrien Monteleone, < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Yes, those are correct. > > #1 You planned to spend 100, but only spent 80. Thus your financial > position is 20 better than planned. (positive) > > #2 You planned to spend 100, but actually spent 120. You

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, those are correct. #1 You planned to spend 100, but only spent 80. Thus your financial position is 20 better than planned. (positive) #2 You planned to spend 100, but actually spent 120. You overspent by 20, so your financial position is 20 worse than planned. (negative) So far, it only

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Long
I'm so sorry, i forgot to attach "Expense" for you, sorry for wasted your time, and Thank you very much for helping me. My expense : 1 : 1-expense.png 2 : 2-expense.png

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Tom Hatzigeorgiou
If what I asked cannot be done i will try to produce a file with the errorsome other way I would suggest to take these emails offline. I think they confuse the user community I will be in touch Thanks On Feb 18, 2020 5:34 PM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: Am 18.02.20 um 22:52 schrieb

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Here’s how to accomplish the following with the Budget Module: 1. You plan to receive positive income/revenue then enter that amount as a positive. 2. You plan to pay down some liabilities then enter the amount you plan to pay down as a negative. (you are decreasing the liability, remember,

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Long
I'm using Gnucash 3.8 (newest version) on Windows 10, and my GnuCash setting are default, Because in Budget Report use positive and negative number on Diff with the way i can't understand, can you give me more information ? For more example about the sign of liability and income: image i have

Re: [GNC] How2find 1) Duplicate items imported 2)Un-Posted Bills?

2020-02-18 Thread Greg Feneis
I typically import qif and ofx files into checking or credit card accounts. GC does a pretty good job of matching pending import transactions with transactions that are already present. Also, I have tried to import a file that I previously tried to import, and nothing shows up in the matcher

Re: [GNC] Fwd: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Christopher Lam
You're right that scheme code logging is useful. The scheme way is to use pk, such as (pk "qif acct map is" qif-acct-map) But often you'll find that gnc objects are opaque; you can use (gnc:pk "qif acct map is" qif-acct-map) instead. You can combine multiple objects with pk or gnc:pk (gnc:pk

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I seem to recall a development goal being to eliminate Scheme code except for reports. This might be a good candidate for just re-writing this in C/C++ with proper tests and verbose error output and/or logging. If someone with the skillset is interested of course. Regards, Adrien > On Feb

Re: [GNC] Fwd: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread James Peterson
Well, with no hint of what the problem is, even smaller test sets won't necessarily find anything, so it could be a lot of work for no benefit. For example, I could export each account separately (although there are about 80 of them so that's a lot of work), and each account could load okay

Re: [GNC] How2find 1) Duplicate items imported 2)Un-Posted Bills?

2020-02-18 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
Thanks Adrian. I'll try and run a test on importing a duplicate checking transaction.In this case the transactions description may not match exactly and I assume that is one of the fields tested by GC to discover that the transaction is already in the system.The fields being imported are

Re: [GNC] android app question

2020-02-18 Thread David H
Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_and_Mobile_Devices - has a link to the support site at https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues Cheers Dave H. On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 09:44, Elmar wrote: > Is there a site that supports the small android app? I have a bunch of >

Re: [GNC] How2find 1) Duplicate items imported 2)Un-Posted Bills?

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m not sure about flagging, but it shouldn’t create a duplicate. As for the finding unposted bills, do a Business > Vendors > Find Bill and set criteria of “Is Posted?” to unchecked. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 18, 2020 w8d49, at 4:05 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user > wrote: > > 1) When

Re: [GNC] Credit Card bill autopay

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Another option is to set up an SX with a variable which would represent the ending balance of the last statement. GnuCash can’t read this amount automatically as Derek noted, but when the SX fires, it will prompt you for the value of the variable. This approach is probably more useful if you

[GNC] android app question

2020-02-18 Thread Elmar
Is there a site that supports the small android app?  I have a bunch of transactions that I would like to export into csv (or qif), but the app says that there are no transactions available to export. - Elmar ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Fwd: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:07 PM crazylyle wrote: > So you are suggesting reducing the size of our QIF files to a small > debuggable size. > > My QIF file is 653,808 lines long. About 2^20. So just using a binary > search would > take at least 20 trials to find the first line that it fails on.

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 18.02.20 um 22:52 schrieb Christopher Lam: > Sorry. Please ask other devs on public mailing list. > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 15:51, Tom Hatzigeorgiou wrote: > >> To do this someone will need to help me. >> I don't know how projects like this work. >> I have no idea where the program

[GNC] How2find 1) Duplicate items imported 2)Un-Posted Bills?

2020-02-18 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
1) When importing or entering checking transactions does gnuCash flag importing a transaction that is already in the system? 2) How do you find Un-Posted bills. Thanks for any help. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Fwd: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread crazylyle
So you are suggesting reducing the size of our QIF files to a small debuggable size. My QIF file is 653,808 lines long. About 2^20. So just using a binary search would take at least 20 trials to find the first line that it fails on. Not exactly something that seems practical. And that's just

Re: [GNC] Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Christopher Lam
Sorry. Please ask other devs on public mailing list. On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 15:51, Tom Hatzigeorgiou wrote: > To do this someone will need to help me. > I don't know how projects like this work. > I have no idea where the program source exists and the tools I will need > to manipulate it. > > I

Re: [GNC] Credit Card bill autopay

2020-02-18 Thread Stan Brown
Not disagreeing with Derek's options, but adding another one: I have a scheduled transaction, once a month with no stopping date. Everything is the same every month, except the amount. When I get my credit-card statement, which IO dated the 15th of the month, I edit the transaction to put in the

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Greg W
Also worth mentioning that the budget planning screen is a little wonky in v3.8 and it'd be better to use v3.7 or v3.9 when it comes out. See https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797551. Thanks, Greg On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:25 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Note, for the curious, I’m aware there is a more direct and technically correct answer explaining the issue with negative signs, but it involves going over the Accounting Equation and how that is implemented using computers, which was not offered by explicit request. Regards, Adrien > On Feb

Re: [GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Welcome to GnuCash! Yes, the Budget module is old and not always intuitive in how it works. For starters, what version of GnuCash are you using and on what operating system? (v3.8 is the newest) Older versions had some issues respecting your global preference for ‘reverse balanced accounts’.

Re: [GNC] Stock account. Entering transacction.

2020-02-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Vicente, There are not different ‘versions’ of the code for each language. Everyone is using the same app. (that is, on the same OS, in your case, Windows, and even then, all versions of Windows use the same app) When you select a language, the text and other ‘words’ in the user interface are

Re: [GNC] help

2020-02-18 Thread John Ralls
Sounds like https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797493. It has a screenshot. I have no idea what might cause that. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 18, 2020, at 2:30 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > Can you post a screenshot showing the problem? > > Colin > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 10:09, Keith

Re: [GNC] QIF file import failed -- but no errors or warnings

2020-02-18 Thread crazylyle
I downloaded the current source code and built it. After gnucash tries to import my QIF file, I get the single word "Failed". Tracking this down, it is coming from /* Inform the user. */ gnc_progress_dialog_set_sub (wind->convert_progress, _("Failed")); in assistant-qif-import.c at

Re: [GNC] Credit Card bill autopay

2020-02-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Viney Kumar writes: > I have one credit card which has billing cycle of 12th of every month. > Payment is to be done on 1st of every month or 2nd if that is holiday. > Payment is automatically deducted on 1st or 2nd (if 1st is holiday) > > Can I schedule transaction of CC bill Payment

[GNC] How to enter value when budgeting? And meaning ?

2020-02-18 Thread Long
Thank you for take your time to read this post and Help me. I'm newbie and not a accounting, and i want to budgeting my income, saving account, expenses, liability and more, but GnuCash Budget make me hard to understand what going on ! For example : *Example 1 :* Income / Revenue : i assume i

Re: [GNC] How to Handle Managed Securities Accounts in GnuCash

2020-02-18 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
Thanks for the explanation. The accounts were already set up and funded from a (cash) bank account under Assets:Current Assets. I have set up the gains in income accounts as you suggest, but they are generic income accounts (in different currencies under Income:Common:Investment:Capital), not

Re: [GNC] help

2020-02-18 Thread Colin Law
Can you post a screenshot showing the problem? Colin On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 10:09, Keith Miller wrote: > > How to get help? > On Ubuntu the transfers dropdown is transparent so you can not read the > items in the list. > ___ > gnucash-user mailing

[GNC] help

2020-02-18 Thread Keith Miller
How to get help? On Ubuntu the transfers dropdown is transparent so you can not read the items in the list. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

[GNC] Fwd: [GNC-dev] Fwd: Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken

2020-02-18 Thread Christopher Lam
Forward from devel -- Forwarded message - From: Geert Janssens Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 3:48 pm Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Fwd: [GNC] Failed - import of QIF files from Quicken To: Cc: Christopher Lam Hi Tom, We don't need your complete financial history, just the bit that