[GNC] Report Question

2023-03-24 Thread Matthew Clay
I have used gnucash for a few years, and have all of my investments sorted by account. To understand how my investments are distributed, it would be very convenient for me to have a report that computes the percentage of certain investments in the whole, e.g., the percent that is bonds. Is it

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
Thanks, Adrien. I started at then followed "Q: I think I found a bug. How do I report it?" to . From there I searched the bug database as described under "Triage". Not finding my issue already reported, I continued to

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 5:48 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: When you first click 'New' or 'File a Bug', you get the option to select Documentation. (see screenshot) I'm not sure if you can move it after filing, but if not, one of the devs can do that for you. Care should be used in defining this bug. The

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Bug report 798798

2023-03-24 Thread jralls
Stan, Please don't write directly to anyone on the GnuCash team unless expressly asked to. Always use the mailing lists or IRC. You sort of went to the wrong place, but it's not really your fault. The link that you followed is to open a new *GnuCash* bug, but you wanted to open a

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
When you first click 'New' or 'File a Bug', you get the option to select Documentation. (see screenshot) I'm not sure if you can move it after filing, but if not, one of the devs can do that for you. Regards, Adrien On 3/24/23 4:05 PM, Stan Brown wrote: "Documentation" doesn't seem to be an

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
"Documentation" doesn't seem to be an option, so I used "General" -- as others have done, apparently. Bug report now entered. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-24 12:46, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Maybe file a

Re: [GNC] GNC 4.904 Online price source pick list greyed

2023-03-24 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
thanks Karel i am seeing the same behavior. i will request Bruce and John to help * installer is still searching for gnc-fq-check and gnc-fq-helper ,when i copied these files into the bin folder, it successfully completed installation (this did not alter the issue detailed) * The

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
Sigh. You're right, of course. I've never filed a bug report before, so I was hoping someone else would do it for me. But I'll figure it out -- it's the least I can do in return for all the benefits I receive from using GnuCash. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-24

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
On 2023-03-24 12:57, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I haven't tested other apps, but both LibreOffice Calc & Apple Numbers > can either open the exported file directly as it is just an HTML table, > and both accept copy/pasted reports though either or both methods may > pop up a dialog for handling

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user
Hi Everybody Thanks Murugan. Glad to know it works in Excel. For those of us on pensions who may be using LibreOffice Calc your exported report will work fine with no error messages, If you save it, you can then have it in one of the spreadsheet formats. Regards Pete -- Original

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence - SOLVED!

2023-03-24 Thread p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user
Hi Maf (and everybody who has taken the trouble to respond to this query) Thank you all for your thoughts. I am amazed to have an inbox full already. I have investigated Maf's suggestion of using the Transaction Report and have managed to get out something like what I was seeking. I

Re: [GNC] GNC 4.904 Online price source pick list greyed

2023-03-24 Thread Karel Kadlubiec
Hi Murugan, I tried to install 4.904 on Windows 11 in VirtualBox. During installation I was asked twice two following questions: USE_UNALIGNED not set in env. Use unaligned loads and stores? yes/no [no] neither NO_ASM nor ZSTD_DISABLE_ASM set in env. Use assembly in ZSTD? yes/no [yes] Because I

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If the Transaction Report can't get you what you want, consider an Account Report. You could filter any register to show just the transactions you are concerned with. If the filters are not quite nuanced enough for you, or if you want multiple accounts in one report, then craft a Find set

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I haven't tested other apps, but both LibreOffice Calc & Apple Numbers can either open the exported file directly as it is just an HTML table, and both accept copy/pasted reports though either or both methods may pop up a dialog for handling column widths, delimiters, special characters, etc.

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't see that you can as an option, but you can remove the Equity total. Fortunately those cells have classes, so you can hide them with CSS using the CSS stylesheet: .total-label-cell, .total-number-cell { display: none; } Regards, Adrien On 3/23/23 6:01 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I'm

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Maybe file a documentation bug for tracking? Regards, Adrien On 3/23/23 6:06 PM, Stan Brown wrote: In 4.13, the Close Book help text, which is the Close Book section of the installed manual, includes the following text under "How It Works", as the second paragraph under "Necessity": "In fact,

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Simon Roberts
I agree--the reality of any risk is small enough to normal people to be irrelevant, but the damage to credibility among those who might want to use GNC but are not familiar with the significance of public key asymmetric cryptography, is not at all trivial. Meanwhile, thank you Dr. Kirbly, your

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
when you export give a .xls you can then open it in excel, it will give an alert but you can override it Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Brook Milligan Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 1:41 PM To: R. Victor Klassen Cc:

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
>>> On Mar 24, 2023, at 10:35 AM, R. Victor Klassen >>> wrote: >>> >>> I use a transaction report for what you seek. With the right >>> options I get the account, date, description and amount. Copy >>> paste the result into a spreadsheet >> On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:41 PM, Brook Milligan wrote:

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 15:22, wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16:09AM +, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > > because its site certificate

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread R. Victor Klassen
What works for me is just selecting the contents of the report and doing copy. Then opening a spreadsheet and doing paste Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:41 PM, Brook Milligan wrote: > >  >> On Mar 24, 2023, at 10:35 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: >> >> I use a transaction

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Brook Milligan
> On Mar 24, 2023, at 10:35 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > I use a transaction report for what you seek. With the right options I get > the account, date, description and amount. Copy paste the result into a > spreadsheet Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but how do you copy/paste

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I use a transaction report for what you seek. With the right options I get the account, date, description and amount. Copy paste the result into a spreadsheet Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > >  >>> The end of the UK Tax Year

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
The end of the UK Tax Year approaches and I am thinking about my tax return. When I used Quicken there was a report that listed every transcation in particular accounts which was useful since not all my accounts are related to the Return. I had been hoping to do the same in GNU but I don't

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Maf. King
On Friday, 24 March 2023 12:54:19 GMT p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi Folks > > The end of the UK Tax Year approaches and I am thinking about my tax > return. When I used Quicken there was a report that listed every > transcation in particular accounts

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread David Carlson
I live in the U. S., and here the tax report is tied to the IRS form 1040. That would be worse than useless in the U. K. I am not sure what might be available there. On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 8:11 AM Fred Tydeman wrote: > Try: > Edit: > Tax Report Options > to set up which (Income & Expense)

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread cl
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16:09AM +, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > because its site certificate expired recently. > How does that make the site

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 9:30 AM, Simon Roberts wrote: On this, I would disagree. The certificate verifies that the *connection* has not been usurped by a "man in the middle" attack, and thereby that the target site is the one you believe it to be. The certificate says absolutely nothing about the quality

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Alex Aycinena
Bear in mind that that option is designed for US Income Taxes only. I believe someone did a version for Germany but am not sure if it is up-to-date. You can, of course, try to use it anyway. Perhaps a response from a gnucash user in the UK might be helpful? Alex > -- Forwarded

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 11:16, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous > because its site certificate expired recently. > > I can get through by overriding the

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/23/2023 7:01 PM, Stan Brown wrote: I'm setting up a local nonprofit with GnuCash books. It's a bare-bones organization, with no liabilities. When I run a Balance Sheet report in 4.13, there's a final line, "Total for Liability and Equity". Of course that's appropriate in most cases, but in

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Fred Tydeman
Try: Edit: Tax Report Options to set up which (Income & Expense) accounts matter. Then, run: Reports: Tax Schedule Report & TFX Export This is mentioned in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide (search for Tax Report) On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 2:54 PM p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/24/2023 7:16 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I

[GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user
Hi Folks The end of the UK Tax Year approaches and I am thinking about my tax return. When I used Quicken there was a report that listed every transcation in particular accounts which was useful since not all my accounts are related to the Return. I had been hoping to do the same in GNU

Re: [GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Point them to https://code.gnucash.org/website/ The maintainer of www.gnucash.org has been having issues since a major power outage in February and has been fighting with his system ever since. -derek On Fri, March 24, 2023 7:16 am, Michael Hendry wrote: > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to

[GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I don’t think I should be advising others to do so.