Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded. It might be worth investigating the Windows equivalent of a symbolic link. Regards, Adrien On 9/5/22 8:22 PM, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: In the C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc directory, in the gnucash subdirectory, where there is an

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread john
> On Sep 5, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens: >> Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john: >>> This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 >>> >>> I discovered while researching this that yelp

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread john
> On Sep 5, 2022, at 4:05 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user > wrote: > > > > On 9/5/22 3:09 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: No I didn't delete the account?

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
In the C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc directory, in the gnucash subdirectory, where there is an "enviroment" file, I added an "environment.local" file with the following content: GNC_DATA_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash I then opened up gnucash, but the saved reports are still not

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hi Stan, I'm not where I can look into it but here is the info for configuring your file location: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#System-wide On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 7:26 PM Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2022-09-05 15:26, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: > > On the "new" laptop

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
Thanks, but that section is a bit above my "pay-grade". As I posted, I already know where the saved reports are being stored on the 1 Windows laptop in question, my issue is how to *relocate* that location. I take it I'm suppose to create GNC_DATA_HOME and/or GNC_CONFIG_HOME somewhere with the

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-09-05 15:26, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: > On the "new" laptop it is looking for the saved reports in > c:\users\butte\Appdata\Roaming\Gnucash. I want it to look in > c:\users\butte\Dropbox\Gnucash where the current Gnucash data file > resides. Can someone give me a clue how I

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread David Carlson
If you had previous dividends open up one of those transactions, then while the curser is sitting in the description box click Transaction > Duplicate Transaction. Set the date to the correct date, then tab down to the last split line and add a split to the security account. No need to enter any

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
On 9/5/22 3:09 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: No I didn't delete the account? Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history? The account is hidden because it's balance

[GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
I had everything set up perfectly between 2 laptops, working great, used dropbox to sync my GnuCash data file and saved reports; but unfortunately, had to reinstall Windows on 1 of the laptops. I have everything back working fine, including syncing of the Gnucash data file, except for the

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 05.09.22 um 23:26 schrieb David Cousens: This probably indicates the Ubuntu developers haven't solved the problem. They usually only copy the debian packages and for that see Johns mail https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-September/102729.html Regards Frank

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread David Cousens
Hi Geert  GnuCash 4.11 on Linux Mint Vanessa (Ubuntu 22.04 based) also gives the same error  "Document Not Found The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-guide’ does not point to a valid page."  when opening the tutorial or help manual from the menu. There are no gnucash doc files for yelp in

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens: Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john: This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Phil Wolff via gnucash-user
David ~ [1]https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#DOT_GNUCASH_DI R: "When moving from GnuCash 2.6 to 3.x or above, GnuCash will automatically try to migrate all data from DOT_GNUCASH_DIR to their respective new locations. After mitgration, GnuCash 3.0 or above should

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john: > This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 > > I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for > the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and help:gnucash-guide are able to > find the GnuCash docs I'm

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
On 9/5/22 1:32 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: No I didn't delete the account? Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history? The account is hidden because it's balance is 0. Reappearing means exactly what it says. I

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: >> No I didn't delete the account? >> Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history? >> The account is hidden because it's balance is 0. >> Reappearing means

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: No I didn't delete the account? Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history? The account is hidden because it's balance is 0. Reappearing means exactly what it says. I was no longer in the account tree, i.e. list,

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread David Carlson
There are a couple of scenarios where it is desirable to post dividends in the security account even though it does not affect the security, it does affect your ROI. One is for certain report s and the other is when the user reports dividends by ex dividend dates instead of payment dates. On

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
No I didn't delete the account? Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history? The account is hidden because it's balance is 0. Reappearing means exactly what it says. I was no longer in the account tree, i.e. list, because after the sale it's balance became 0. No matter how I

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread john
This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and help:gnucash-guide are able to find the GnuCash docs so another option for the packager (and BTW I think the one in

Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You deleted the account holding the fund after selling it? Otherwise, and unless you marked it 'hidden' it will always be there. Having activity in it doesn't change that. But you wouldn't have activity in it anyway from a dividend. What *exactly* do you mean by 'reappearing in my account

[GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

2022-09-05 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
Last month I sold a mutual fund say XYZ. Several weeks after the sale closed and the calendar date went into the next quarter I received a dividend from XYZ. How do I enter that dividend transaction for XYZ without having it reappearing in my account list and screwing everything else up?

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Phil, My response was not for flatpak. It's how the gnucash-docs build scripts (written by the gnucash developers) currently install things. And on Fedora 36 for example that is still the case. The documentation links you are listing are the html versions of our documentation and is not

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Phil Wolff via gnucash-user
Geert ~ Thanks for responding! That may be true for a Flatpak installation, but mine is what GNC calls "pristine," and I've found the documents at - file:///usr/share/doc/gnucash-docs/gnucash-guide-en/index.html - file:///usr/share/doc/gnucash-docs/gnucash-help-en/help.html ~ Phil On 9/5/22

Re: [GNC] A new start - somewhat strange

2022-09-05 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Norbert: On 2022-09-04 20:44, Norbert Klein wrote: …Some time ago, I saw on the list here a clear graphic example: the Groceries heading, with two subheadings with two different currencies – but my download was lost with my recent hard-disk crash.… You may be remembering a thread you started

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Phil, Regarding the documentation, it seems like Ubuntu 22.04.1 ships a newer help viewer that's not compatible with where GnuCash stores its guide and manual on disk. This has been fixed for the future GnuCash 5.0 but not for the current 4.x series. As temporary workarounds you could

Re: [GNC] A new start - somewhat strange

2022-09-05 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Norbert, You are remembering a thread where the suggestion was to create accounts in the second currency for the major areas you anticipate tracking find in Riel. To wit: Expenses - Groceries - - USD - - RIEL Best, David T. On Sep 5, 2022, 06:45, at 06:45, Norbert Klein wrote: >Thanks –