Re: [GNC] About auto-completion

2023-08-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Stan, the old method of typing separators still exists. Regards, Adrien On 8/14/23 6:26 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: I wish to support the 'search throughout' method.  I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces

Re: [GNC] how to search for transactions with new line character in description?

2023-08-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Use the Regex option. Regards, Adrien On 8/14/23 11:42 AM, Lipp F. wrote: When doing paste into a transaction description field, special characters are stored "as is". I need to find a way to delete all these special characters. Can you guys recommend a proper way? Thanks.

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Barry, we don't need your actual files. That's not going to help much anyway. The only thing requested was a screenshot of your file manager window showing the list of files, including their names, creation dates, and modified dates. But if that list is several scrolling windows long, then the

Re: [GNC] Chase ofx support?

2023-08-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Chase does supports download in CSV, QFX, QIF and QBO formats for Credit Card and Bank accounts. QFX format seems to be the best and then importing it as a OFX/QFX has worked well ... -Original Message- From: John Ralls Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 4:43 PM To: D Ducky Cc: Jon Schewe

Re: [GNC] About auto-completion

2023-08-14 Thread Sherman Yoder
I love the "search throughout" feature. i am the treasurer of a foreign mission, and we track expenses by missionary family. All I have to do is to type in "david" and up come David's housing, transportation, and support accounts. That's so much nicer than typing

Re: [GNC] Strange prices update issue (possibly with TSP)

2023-08-14 Thread John Ralls
Kalpesh, Bruce posted at https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/335#issuecomment-1676443182: "While the fix did not make it into v1.58, you can download and install BPSCHUCK/Finance-Quote-1.58_01.tar.gz from CPAN for testing/verification. It also has what I hope is a fix for

Re: [GNC] Chase ofx support?

2023-08-14 Thread Gyle McCollam
I don't use direct connect at all anymore. However, I do import OFX/QFX files from many sources, Chase credit card being one. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam gmccol...@live.com email From: gnucash-user on

Re: [GNC] About auto-completion

2023-08-14 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: > I wish to support the 'search throughout' method.  I admit that it took > me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the > short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner > very easily.  Since I am now

Re: [GNC] About auto-completion

2023-08-14 Thread David Carlson
I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several introductory

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Fred Tydeman
Based upon my usage of keeping three separate "trusts" in the same one file/book, If multiple family members own the same stock, then the Trading transactions will be a pain to keep correct. I gave up and went with three separate files/books. On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM James Thomas wrote:

Re: [GNC] Strange prices update issue (possibly with TSP)

2023-08-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Some good find in debugging ... Strawberry Perl cannot resolve the FQDN name one out of three times for www.tsp.gov on my system (this might be obfuscating the client behavior in response to real backend issue). It might be that I am reaching servers that are in error state (rc = 500 which is

Re: [GNC] Chase ofx support?

2023-08-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 1:33 PM, D Ducky wrote: > > Hello, > > It seems Chase does not support OFX anymore. > > https://www.banktivity.com/support/articles/banktivity-7/ofx-direct-connect-will-no-longer-be-supported-by-chase-as-of-october-6th-2022/ > > > Is it possible to use some other

[GNC] About auto-completion

2023-08-14 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
I know there's been a lot of controversy about auto-completion in GC 5.x. I'm waiting for 5.4 to finish my upgrade, but have been using 4.14 for a week or so now. One thing I just noticed is that, on the accounts tab, when I type the first few letters of an account name it now matches the first

Re: [GNC] Convert Money Market stock acnt to Bank acnt

2023-08-14 Thread R Losey
On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 2:09 PM Fred Tydeman wrote: > Is there an easy way to convert a money market stock account > to a bank account? > > Since the price is always $1, and each transaction has Trading splits, the > money market accounts are adding extra data to the book file and the price >

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 8/14/2023 12:11 PM, Paras Desai wrote: Thanks for a sharing fundamental understanding of accounting, that too coming from a person who seems to have actually done booking keeping with pen and paper is a real treat.  LOL --- it wasn't THAT long ago. In the 1950's (I was a teen in the

Re: [GNC] Copying report formats to new PC

2023-08-14 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2023-08-14 09:43, Richard Stanton wrote: > I'm moving GNUCash to a new PC. I've moved the data files, but > I've also got a bunch of customised graphs that open by default > when I open that file. When I open the file on the new PC, > those are missing. I've googled, and as a result have tried

Re: [GNC] Copying report formats to new PC

2023-08-14 Thread Rich Stanton
Thanks for that, while checking your suggestions I realised that the GCM file hadn't been copied over properly. Copying that fixed the issue, Thanks! Rich On 14/08/2023 18:14:04, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: Richard Can you check the file named saved-reports-2.x   has your custom changes.

Re: [GNC] Copying report formats to new PC

2023-08-14 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
Richard Can you check the file named saved-reports-2.x has your custom changes. Check the userconfig directory in the new machine, you can see th same from Help -> About Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of Richard Stanton Sent:

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread James Thomas
I’m not sure why you’re maintaining separate books for each family member but it occurs to me that, rather than keeping them separate and having trouble combining when you want, you might try keeping all the accounts together but giving each a different name (perhaps just add each family member’s

Re: [GNC] Update F::Q in flatpak GC?

2023-08-14 Thread john
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 04:33, rsbrux via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I am running GC 5.3+ as a flatpak under Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS. > > The included F::Q version is 1..56, which I have modified with the Yahoo as > JSON patch already published to this mailing list. > > However, it looks as

[GNC] Copying report formats to new PC

2023-08-14 Thread Richard Stanton
Hi, I'm moving GNUCash to a new PC. I've moved the data files, but I've also got a bunch of customised graphs that open by default when I open that file. When I open the file on the new PC, those are missing. I've googled, and as a result have tried copying the files located at

[GNC] how to search for transactions with new line character in description?

2023-08-14 Thread Lipp F.
When doing paste into a transaction description field, special characters are stored "as is". I need to find a way to delete all these special characters. Can you guys recommend a proper way? Thanks. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Paras Desai
Thanks for a sharing fundamental understanding of accounting, that too coming from a person who seems to have actually done booking keeping with pen and paper is a real treat.  It crossed my mind to treat family members as partners but it would have been more complicated than maintaining

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
As I have replied to Liz and addressing your valid point, i am maintaining three separate books for each one of us, independent to each other. And that is why I raised a query how I can combine or consolidate three books to create one virtual book which I would call a family book. When I

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Generally, I consider equity as a holy account, as it is a result of all we do with all other accounts, but this case could be an exception. That's a misunderstanding of equity coming from the (very common) special case of "sole" entities. But say, for example, the entity were a

[GNC] Update F::Q in flatpak GC?

2023-08-14 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
I am running GC 5.3+ as a flatpak under Ubuntu  Studio 22.04 LTS. The included F::Q version is 1..56, which I have modified with the Yahoo as JSON patch already published to this mailing list. However, it looks as though the current F::Q release, 1.58, includes quite a few fixes for various

Re: [GNC] Consolidation of family member accounts

2023-08-14 Thread G R Hewitt
I'm coming late to this party I know, but what about looking at it from another angle. Suppose you run the 'Family' [cue 'Godfather' theme] as a business and each of you is a customer? All the in's and out's would be visible in each customer's account making it easy to keep track, and all the