Re: [GNC] Error retrieving price quotes

2020-07-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 4:23 PM, John Haiducek wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:03 PM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Jul 1, 2020, at 10:17 AM, John Haiducek wrote: > > > > When I try to fetch prices I get the error "There was a system error while > > retrieving the price quotes". No

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread John Ralls
That is progress. 104 is an internal server error, meaning that the bank's server didn't like what you sent it. It may need a different QWIN, a customer ID, or you might have to set up online banking at their end first. Tell us the bank name, maybe someone else here has experience with them.

Re: [GNC] Accounts List Columns Displayed

2020-07-06 Thread Greg Feneis
I have found that usually, when the width of all the columns exceeds the width of the window, a slightly inconspicuous horizontal scroll bar appears at the bottom of all columns, allowing me to shift columns left and right. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 15:28 listsub3

Re: [GNC] Top-Level Account:Expenses not totaling in Budget

2020-07-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You are welcome. If that example of ‘Medical’ is showing zero (without an explicit ‘0.00’ entered by you) and any of the child accounts of ‘visits, meds, and tests’have amounts, then you have found a bug. (though why for some accounts and not others is to be determined.) It *should* roll up

[GNC] Top-Level Account:Expenses not totaling in Budget

2020-07-06 Thread Lorrie Laskey
Adrian, Thank you very much. Without your help, I would have never found the auto-fill feature. And now the Expenses are showing a cumulative total. Both were big issues. I was ready to find another program. Some child-level accounts are still showing zero values because their sub-accounts have

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread David Cousens
Don, I have sent emails to Hugo directly as well as through the error message that comes up on attempting to post with Nabble and have received no feedback from either and no fix. David Cousens On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 12:35 -0500, Don Ireland wrote: > Out of curiosity, i visited their forum.

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread David Cousens
As a counter to that David, if you are going to put the effort in to learning something new, you might as well start with the newest version of it. A lot depends on our individual backgrounds. As a sometime programmer, I am generally fairly comfortable with the latest versions of most software

Re: [GNC] Accounts List Columns Displayed

2020-07-06 Thread listsub3
Thanks. The down arrow at right hand end of columns header was not visible on my screen - it seems like expanding column size(s) causes it to get pushed off the screen - which I guess should not happen. On 06/07/2020 12:28, Maf. King wrote: On Monday, 6 July 2020 12:14:55 BST listsub3

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread David Cousens
David T, It is just a web interface to the mail listserver. I find it has some advantages in presentation of threaded posts particularly when looking back over archived material compared with my mail client. Someone has updated the signup instructions some time ago to point out that you have to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I would be curious how people are finding Nabble in the first place. I didn’t even know it existed until after using the list for some time and similar issues of confusion were posted. I know the wiki references it and how to avoid issues, but I seem to recall it stressed using the list

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Stan, It's true, I did write that. My point was more about *individuals* signed up for Nabble; if an individual were get their GnuCash-users fix directly from lists.gnucash.org, instead of getting it ad-ded up by the lesser provider Nabble, then that individual would not have the

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread Don Ireland
Out of curiosity, i visited their forum. When you look at the "people" tab, there is an option to show only the administrators. That lists ONE USER named Hugo. On July 6, 2020 5:22:15 AM CDT, Liz wrote: >On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:24:25 -0700 >Stan Brown wrote: > >> > I guess all that would

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I will add steps 4b & 7b: After opening your file with the new version you just installed (3.x, and later again with 4.x) with focus on the Accounts tab click: Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All This will attempt to fix any issues that the data file might have already had, or that

Re: [GNC] Top-Level Account:Expenses not totaling in Budget

2020-07-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Jul 6, 2020 w28d188, at 8:36 AM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > > I tried estimating the expenses and that ignored the rent, entirely, the > largest of my expenses. Please do file a bug report on this. Extensive work has been done on the budget recently and the developer working on it is in

Re: [GNC] Top-Level Account:Expenses not totaling in Budget

2020-07-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Jul 6, 2020 w28d188, at 8:36 AM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > > 1. How do I get a total monthly expense value for all expenses? That should be in the summary at the bottom as well as in the parent account ‘Expenses’ line in the budget itself. *note — do not enter a value into a parent

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-07-06 08:34, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Jul 6, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Liz wrote: >> >> On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:24:25 -0700 >> Stan Brown wrote: >> I guess all that would recommend abandoning nabble altogether, and drinking the gnucash Kool ade directly from lists.gnucash.org...

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread Fleur Dragan
It didn't even occur to me I couldn't send an attachment to the list. I facepalm. I'll go through it again with debugging and send you the output directly tomorrow. Thanks. And of course, before I wrote this, I was so excited I forgot to set up debugging and I went and tried setting up an

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread John Ralls
Unfortunately the stderr/stdout capture didn't make it through the list. You may send them directly to me if you like, but please first go through them and remove any identifying information, especially the bank routing id, account numbers, and any PINs or passwords. All that you need for

Re: [GNC] Gnucash user Nabble

2020-07-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 3:16 AM, Liz wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 07:20:17 -0700 > John Ralls wrote: > >> I'm not the list moderator nor do I have shell access to the mail >> server, so I can't help you. Your best recourse is to get on IRC >> (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC) and ping

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Liz wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:24:25 -0700 > Stan Brown wrote: > >>> I guess all that would recommend abandoning nabble altogether, and >>> drinking the gnucash Kool ade directly from lists.gnucash.org... >>> just saying.?. >>> > I don't know how we

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread D. via gnucash-user
2.6.13 was released in 2016. While the user may not have engaged with the community actively over that time, I'd hesitate to refer to them as a "newbie." Original Message From: "w...@theprescotts.com" Sent: Mon Jul 06 10:57:21 EDT 2020 To: David Carlson Cc: GnuCash Users

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
I agree. Will On 2020 Jul 6, at 07-06 09:40:50, David Carlson wrote: This thread was started by a newbie who is still learning how it works. That person doesn't need the extra burden of finding things changing, sometimes for the worse, while still learning. On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:33

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread peterb
Hmmm, with respect, this doesn't seem like a helpful reply - I looked at the documents you referenced, and the questions Fleur is asking are not, in fact, answered in them. It could be that you're misunderstanding her questions, or it could be that both she and I are misreading the documentation.

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/6/2020 10:40 AM, David Carlson wrote: This thread was started by a newbie who is still learning how it works. That person doesn't need the extra burden of finding things changing, sometimes for the worse, while still learning. Well I spent my working days in a shop where the motto was

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread David Carlson
This thread was started by a newbie who is still learning how it works. That person doesn't need the extra burden of finding things changing, sometimes for the worse, while still learning. On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:33 AM w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > David, > > There is no one answer for

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
David, There is no one answer for everybody but I find it is better to pick a time when I have no emergencies and update, even if it will "fix something that ain't broke". Either you skip all updates until you have to, then it is a pain because you are way out of date and there may be no

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
David, just grep the release notes 2.6.13 - 3.11 for "Bug". Regards Frank Am 06.07.20 um 15:35 schrieb David Carlson: > Will, > > In many. Cases it is better to follow the the adage "If it ain't broke, > don't fix it." > > David Carlson ___

[GNC] Top-Level Account:Expenses not totaling in Budget

2020-07-06 Thread Lorrie Laskey
I am creating an income vs expenses budget, inputting my monthly values for July to December 2020. The total cumulative running value for Expenses is not changing as expenses are added to the month of July for all expenses. For example... - $60 - gas - $60 - phone - $1500 - rent -

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread David Carlson
Will, In many. Cases it is better to follow the the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." David Carlson On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 7:55 AM w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > "Decide from those whether there are new features that you want. If not, > there is no reason to abandon a release that you

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
"Decide from those whether there are new features that you want. If not, there is no reason to abandon a release that you are using successfully." I would disagree. I think it is better to keep all software current. You may not want new features in the current latest release, but down the road

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, IMHO most of your questions are answered in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect and https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Glossary HTH Frank Am 06.07.20 um 13:33 schrieb Fleur Dragan: > > First I set: > > export GWEN_LOGLEVEL=debug > export AQBANKING_LOGLEVEL=debug > export

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread Fleur Dragan
First I set: export GWEN_LOGLEVEL=debug export AQBANKING_LOGLEVEL=debug export AQOFX_LOG_COMM=1 export AQOFXCONNECT_LOGLEVEL=debug Then I ran, just to be safe: rm -rf ~/.aqbanking/ Then I ran: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug 2>&1 | tee gnc.out Once GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Accounts List Columns Displayed

2020-07-06 Thread Maf. King
On Monday, 6 July 2020 12:14:55 BST listsub3 wrote: > On Accounts tab (GC 3.5) the only 3 columns I get displayed are Account > Name, Description and Total. > > Is there any way to control/get additional data columns for account > fields - example Account Type? I want to be able to sort list by

[GNC] Accounts List Columns Displayed

2020-07-06 Thread listsub3
On Accounts tab (GC 3.5) the only 3 columns I get displayed are Account Name, Description and Total. Is there any way to control/get additional data columns for account fields - example Account Type? I want to be able to sort list by various fields - especially Type.

Re: [GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-07-05 23:55, Verghese Kuruvilla wrote: > I am using GnuCash software ver 2.6.13 on my computer having Microsoft > Windows 10. Is there a latest update for this version and if so how do I > download the update? There is, and it was announced on this list earlier this week. I guess you

Re: [GNC] Transcation Search & Replace

2020-07-06 Thread listsub3
Thanks to all for suggestions - I will do some experimenting - maybe this can be added to feature suggestions list. I also do not see why implemenetation is dependant on using a database underneath. The old Quicken model seemd quite good to me. With regard accounting rules & bulk edit/changes

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User

2020-07-06 Thread Liz
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:24:25 -0700 Stan Brown wrote: > > I guess all that would recommend abandoning nabble altogether, and > > drinking the gnucash Kool ade directly from lists.gnucash.org... > > just saying.?. > > I don't know how we could, because no-one knows who actually signed Gnucash

Re: [GNC] Best match probability calc is too pessimistic

2020-07-06 Thread Liz
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:49:40 -0400 David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: > From my perspective, transactions posting within 3 days of the > transaction date should still get a match score of 6. One day after > transaction ought to be 8. One of the grocery stores I go to > frequently has never

Re: [GNC] Gnucash user Nabble

2020-07-06 Thread Liz
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 07:20:17 -0700 John Ralls wrote: > I'm not the list moderator nor do I have shell access to the mail > server, so I can't help you. Your best recourse is to get on IRC > (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC) and ping warlord. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Jul 5, 2020, at

[GNC] Help required

2020-07-06 Thread Verghese Kuruvilla
Hi I am using GnuCash software ver 2.6.13 on my computer having Microsoft Windows 10. Is there a latest update for this version and if so how do I download the update? Also could you please advice me whether I should install the GnuCash 4.0. If so will it overwrite the existing software? How do I