Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-29 Thread David Carlson
First, I thought I followed all the links in your previous post,and all I found were Diff files which don't mean much to an ordinary user. Especially since your post suggested that you would make that change the default. Your example views in your last post show a register with the longest note

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Liz Dodd
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:03:10 +0100 Chris Green wrote: > > My advice would be to go for a very simple chart of accounts and > > deal with restricted funds and budgeting externally, either on > > paper or on a spreadsheet. I have discovered from bitter experience > > that it is possible to

Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-29 Thread azalea4va
To each his own, but I would not call this "ultra-wide", it is normal wide on a modern monitor. I have no problem seeing the information and I have old-man eyes. My post was a reply to someone whom seemed to be requesting this feature and a followup to a post three years ago where I provided a

Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Fred Bone
On 29 August 2020 at 11:40, Chris Green said: > I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted > funds issue. > > I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our PCC. What I > *thought* were restricted funds are actually 'designated' funds. I.e. we > (the PCC) have

Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-29 Thread David Carlson
azalea4va, Why would you want to impose an ultra-wide layout onto most users that find it very difficult to see the information even in the double line mode on their monitors? You have not even provided an illustration of what it would look like and asked for an opinion from other users. How

Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-29 Thread azalea4va
When using gnucash on a modern computer monitor, I found it frustrating that there was plenty of space for the NOTEs field to appear yet also could not find anyway to make it happen. So I made some chnaged to a file in the source code, recompiled, and now have that capability. See

Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/29/2020 6:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted funds issue. I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our PCC. What I *thought* were restricted funds are actually 'designated' funds. I.e. we (the PCC) have made a

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:26:53AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > Well, yes, but the existing paper system is hardly transparent! :-) > > > > I'm really only trying to work things out from what has to be on the > > annual return to the CofE. > > > > The restricted and unrestricted

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Well, yes, but the existing paper system is hardly transparent! :-) I'm really only trying to work things out from what has to be on the annual return to the CofE. The restricted and unrestricted funds are at least basically separated by being in separate accounts. If the restricted funds are

Re: [GNC] help with error message

2020-08-29 Thread Greg Feneis
Jane, usually this happens when the user downloads and tries to import transactions that have already been downloaded and imported. Perhaps confirm that the data hasn't already been imported? However, sometimes GnuCash incorrectly treats new transactions as if they've already been imported. If

Re: [GNC] Setting up for restricted/unrestricted PCC accounts - what's a reasonable approach

2020-08-29 Thread pobox . deva
Chris, You will find plenty of discussions on this list on restricted/unrestricted funds for charity, trust, etc. Much of the account setup also revolves around taxation in your jurisdiction, so I won’t delve into those aspects. My comment here is restricted to your query on which account

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 11:40:03AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2020, at 10:39, Chris Green wrote: > >> > > Well it sounds as if you know the ins and outs then! :-) > > I seem to have got away with it so far, with the help of charity-friendly > accountants and especially this

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Aug 2020, at 10:39, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: >> On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: >>> >>> I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial >>> Church Council. The existing accounts are all

[GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted funds issue. I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our PCC. What I *thought* were restricted funds are actually 'designated' funds. I.e. we (the PCC) have made a collection for example 'for repairs to the church

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread John Angelico
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 19:42, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial > > > Church Council. The existing accounts are

[GNC] Setting up for restricted/unrestricted PCC accounts - what's a reasonable approach.

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
I have installed GnuCash on my xubuntu system and I've done the default 'business' accounts set-up as that seems closest to what a PCC needs. Now presumably I need to apply some sort of restricted/unrestricted account types. It would seem that the way to go would be to split 'expenses' into

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:51:47PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 8/26/2020 7:16 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > > > I used to run my own small Ltd. company so basic accounting methods, > > > VAT, etc. are not beyond me either. > > > > > > What I want is more on the 'how to run a small

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial > > Church Council. The existing accounts are all wholly manual and I > > want to move to some level of

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.11

2020-08-29 Thread Geert Janssens
The "1:" prepended to the version number comes from packaging gnucash. I don't know the details but it's a mechanism commonly used by distro packagers to force a certain version over another one. Some packages in Fedora have this too, though not all. Regards, Geert Op woensdag 26 augustus

[GNC] help with error message

2020-08-29 Thread Jane Knichel-Aldea
Hello: Can anyone provide some troubleshooting advice for this error: [image: image.png] I have downloaded transactions from my bank many, many times, but never got this message that 2 transactions were processed, but no trx to match. There are definitely transactions in the date range I