Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 217, Issue 9

2021-04-04 Thread Mike Commissaris
Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnc 4.5 report charts do not render (blank screen) Solved Thanks to Tommy and John for insights that helped me find my problem. It's embarrassing, but I discovered I created my GNC launcher pointing to the binary in my build directory instead of the opt install directory.

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-04-04 Thread David H
File >> Open :-) On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 09:30, Andrew Ralph via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi Team > > AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports > for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option. > > My other question was again

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-04-04 Thread Andrew Ralph via gnucash-user
Hi Team AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option. My other question was again what I thought should be a simple solution. Saving data, I have attempted multiple times to do this in various places

Re: [GNC] Duplicate Trading Account Created in V4.5

2021-04-04 Thread Thomas Chen
Thanks for reply. Everything is working well in GNC V4.5 with duplicate Trading Accounts, it just looks weird. I tried to move accounts under Old Trading Account to New Trading Account, but the accounts under new Trading Account are still duplicate. I usually use Trading Account to understand

[GNC] Transactions document link attachments option is missing in CSV import

2021-04-04 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hello, When doing a CSV transaction import, the "document link" is missing in the option columns. I searched the archives and BugZilla and found nothing on this. Is it missing or is there a workaround? My motivation behind this is to write a script that will take a receipt or invoice, extract the

[GNC] Exchange Rates

2021-04-04 Thread Peter Williamson
We use Gnucash to do the bookkeeping for income that includes payments in both local and overseas currencies plus a few admin and equipment expenses. For NZ income tax return purposes, is it possible with Gnucash income reports to assign exchange rates for a particular month and apply these to

[GNC] Exchange Rates

2021-04-04 Thread Peter Williamson
We use Gnucash to do the bookkeeping for income that includes payments in both local and overseas currencies plus a few admin and equipment expenses. For NZ income tax return purposes, is it possible with Gnucash income reports to assign exchange rates for a particular month and apply these to

Re: [GNC] Reconcile "Starting Balance" is wrong

2021-04-04 Thread Roland Roberts
On 4/3/2021 9:06 PM, Roland Roberts wrote: I've delayed reconciling my accounts for a long time and am now paying the price by having a lot of entries to go through. [...] This account happens to be my PayPal account, and normally this is a zero balance account in any period. That was what

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David Carlson
Jack, Several developers monitor this list and often they also monitor the IRC channel described here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC They can help you with info about what it takes to help them. On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 4:56 PM Jack Frillman wrote: > I understand. > > In the program I

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Stephen M. Butler
You will have to do some manual work. This is how I would do it: 1.  Edit the scheduled transaction to Create 15 days in advance. 2.  Run the schedule transactions since last run to create the entry in the journal and update the scheduler so it knows that transaction was already created. 3. 

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David H
As I use Gnucash just for my personal expenses (there are plenty of those) and a couple of rental properties I take a totally different approach and just setup all scheduled txns to create automatically 60 days in advance. Makes it easy to see what's coming up cash flow wise especially if you set

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread D. via gnucash-user
There is literally nothing that prevents you from simply creating the transaction on the date you want, the old fashioned way-- that is, manually. Autofill will make entry straightforward. If, by chance you fail to prevent the normally scheduled transaction from getting created, you simply

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David Carlson
Jack, for a one-time issue like you describe, use Actions-> Scheduled Transactions-> Scheduled Transactions Editor to edit that transaction by changing it to Remind in Advance 15 days. Save transaction. then run Since Last Run to get it into the account register. Then edit it as needed.

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Or adjust the Create X days in advance and run for this month (as noted by another response), modify the date on the created transaction, reset the Create X days in advance to desired value.  All can be done without restarting GnC. On 4/4/21 6:24 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: I can think of two

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David H
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash#Getting_involved_in_the_GnuCash_project On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 07:56, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I understand. > > In the program I switched from using there is an option to commit a > future scheduled transaction

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
I understand. In the program I switched from using there is an option to commit a future scheduled transaction immediately without making any adjustments to the calendar. Based on the responses it doesn't look like it can be done that easily with GNUCash. Which is okay. I'm just inquiring if

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
I have a transaction scheduled for the 15th  of every month. Today something occurred where I want to make that transaction today, the 4th, and have it count as if the transaction occurred on the 15th and the next scheduled transaction date is the following month without having to go thought

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
That didn't work because the transaction I wanted to enter early is scheduled for the 15th it doesn't show up in Since Last Run list. If fact nothing is listed when I run the Since Last Run. On 4/4/21 3:09 PM, Vincent Fu wrote: The way I would do this is: 1) Click on Actions->Scheduled

Re: [GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

2021-04-04 Thread Geert Janssens
I have filed a bug against flatpak for this: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4209[1] Op zondag 4 april 2021 21:56:20 CEST schreef Geert Janssens: > From reading the reports here I believe the settings that got lost you are > those stored in GSettings. Those are not in the configuration

Re: [GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

2021-04-04 Thread Geert Janssens
>From reading the reports here I believe the settings that got lost you are >those stored in GSettings. Those are not in the configuration directories you can symlink. On linux (and hence flatpak) GSettings uses dconf as its backend. As John already suggested it looks like something has

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Vincent Fu
The way I would do this is: 1) Click on Actions->Scheduled Transactions->Since Last Run 2) Change the "Status" column for your transaction from "Reminder" to "To-Create" 3) Check the "Review created transactions" checkbox at the bottom of the window 4) Click on OK 5) Adjust the date in the

Re: [GNC] Gnc 4.5 report charts do not render (blank screen)

2021-04-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 4, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:07 PM Mike Commissaris > wrote: > >> MX-Linux 19.3_64 >> Built release 4.5. Textual reports work fine. However any report that >> involves graphics does not render. Report loads and settings are available >>

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David Carlson
Jack, You are not the first user that believes the Scheduled Transaction workflow could be improved. Over the years there have been suggestions for minor improvements to reduce the average number of keystrokes to implement each transaction to radical changes to the entire process. The existing

Re: [GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

2021-04-04 Thread Tommy Trussell
I should also say, I created symlinks so that my flatpak gnucash installations on different systems share the same settings folder as a distribution installed version, were I to revert to it. SO the flatpak version is doing something completely different, or it blew away the old settings or

Re: [GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

2021-04-04 Thread Tommy Trussell
And just to pile on, I noticed the same in Flatpak running on Ubuntu 20.04. This MAY have been after a "secondary" Flatpak update (?). It still says GnuCash 4.5 Flatpak inside the application but when you open a terminal and run flatpak list I believe it says GnuCash 4.5+. I was quite surprised

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 4 Apr 2021, at 15:30, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user > wrote: > > That's not what I was trying to do. Is this scheduled transaction (Sx) the first of a series (A), or is it part of an existing series which is to be paid earlier than normal? (B) If (A): create the Sx with the early start

Re: [GNC] Gnc 4.5 report charts do not render (blank screen)

2021-04-04 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:07 PM Mike Commissaris wrote: > MX-Linux 19.3_64 > Built release 4.5. Textual reports work fine. However any report that > involves graphics does not render. Report loads and settings are available > but screen renders blank. > I also have versions 4.3 and 4.4 installed

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
That's not what I was trying to do. On 4/4/21 9:24 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote: I can think of two ways. You can just leave it for the 15th and then after this month posts just manually edit to the desired date. You can also start the scheduled transactions next month and do a manual entry this

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
On 4/4/21 8:54 AM, David Carlson wrote: There are a couple of ways.  One is to set the Scheduled Transaction to Remind you several days early.   Then it will remind you as scheduled until you actually go through the Since Last Run list and convert the Reminder to To-Create. That's

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Glenn Fowler
I can think of two ways. You can just leave it for the 15th and then after this month posts just manually edit to the desired date. You can also start the scheduled transactions next month and do a manual entry this month. On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 8:29 AM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread David Carlson
There are a couple of ways. One is to set the Scheduled Transaction to Remind you several days early. Then it will remind you as scheduled until you actually go through the Since Last Run list and convert the Reminder to To-Create. It is not necessary to re-start GnuCaash to trigger the Since

Re: [GNC] How To Remove All Old Invoices

2021-04-04 Thread Greg Feneis
IIRC, invoices can only be created. Previously, people have requested help with deleting a single invoice that was created by mistake. I think the best advice I saw was to set it aside and use when needed. Doesn't seem very good for your case, you'd have to unpost and edit each invoice and

[GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
I have a scheduled transaction for the 15th of each month. This month and only this one time I want to make it before it's scheduled date of the 15th. How can easily I do that? The only way I could see how to do it was going into the scheduled transactions options, adjusting the day ahead

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-04 Thread zuperkoleoptera
On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 03:21 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote: > On 3 Apr 2021, at 1:31, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another issue that I just realized and is related to the > > functionality > > of trading accounts, but maybe not the one that we are discussing > > here, > > is the

Re: [GNC] Reconcile "Starting Balance" is wrong

2021-04-04 Thread Mahon Finbar
Yes, I have found both, transactions 'out of order' and balance not 'correct' I usually find that I made a booboo in an entry or duplicated one or wrong date/year To be honest, even after checking there is often a few centimes difference but I don't let it bother me. Life is too