Re: [GNC] Is a screwed-up style sheet hiding somewhere?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You didn't like the looks of an invoice so you tried uninstall/re-install? Holy cow. Since you don't specify what about the invoice you don't like, the best I can do is guess: You're not a fan of your duplicated company name and info. That's certainly reasonable. I'm not sure why it would

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There already is such a preference. It is the very first preference on the first tab. Most reports (certainly annual ones) default to 'beginning of accounting period' and 'end of accounting period'. The OP's issue is that preference by default is 'beginning/end of *this* year, and we're

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Then set your accounting period to the desired range or else use Saved Configurations as needed. But do note if you customize the Accounting Period to specific dates, you'll have to change it again next time. The easiest option that requires the least amount of repetitive work is to leave

Re: [GNC] Register column sizing

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That's a good question and one I've had myself. It is even more perplexing when I discovered the registers are based on code from the Gnumeric spreadsheet app. My wild and very limited understanding guess is: That part of the UI didn't get borrowed from Gnumeric, maybe for a good reason. A

Re: [GNC] Sort order not being maintained

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I just tested using 4.13 on Mac. It works properly there. I tested closing the register I sorted, then re-opening. I then tested closing GnuCash and re-opening. In both cases, the sort order was retained. (I tested with your options of Date, Reverse, & Save) Try 4.13? Regards, Adrien On

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That also happens to be the very FIRST preference overall. First tab of Preferences, first preference. You'd have to really not be looking top-down or in any order to miss it. Regards, Adrien On 1/6/23 3:51 AM, David H wrote: Yeah it's Prefs >> Accounting Period - not sure if that's used by

Re: [GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I understand your explanation, but if you aren't checking and verifying every transaction, how do you ever discover when the automated process makes a mistake? Reconciliation was invented long before computers, but I appreciate that the process demands one to slow down, take your time, and

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'll follow up that if you've left the default Accounting Period defined as 'Start of this Year/End of this Year' and you try to run your annual reports in the following year, such as today for 2022, yes, the range will be wrong. As I noted in my other reply, use Saved Report Configs. Get the

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, if you set the period in Preferences, it remembers it. Do a test and set specific odd dates here and run an annual-style report before and after doing so. If you change a report's Options to something other than "beginning/end of this period" which is usually the default for most reports,

Re: [GNC] Why can't I set 'selcted' accounts for reports permananently?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That would depend on the report. For some, it makes sense that GnuCash doesn't know which accounts you want till you tell it. For others, there are sane defaults. (like the Income statement that already has Income & Expense accounts selected) Some reports also behave a tad differently

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Maybe it is used for things other than reports? Regards, Adrien On 1/6/23 5:11 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:31:46PM +0300, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: There is also a setting in preferences somewhere to change the accounting period. As I don't use the feature, I

Re: [GNC] Register column sizing

2023-01-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't play with it too often these days, but if I do, I won't miss the auto-size or accidentally exposing the price column. Regards, Adrien On 1/5/23 9:40 PM, john wrote: It would be really easy to turn off autosizing on the Description field and only a little work to figure out another

Re: [GNC] beginner bookkeeping question

2023-01-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That depends on your setting for Preferences > Accounts > Reversed balanced accounts. The default is 'Credit Accounts' if I'm not mistaken. So in that case, the more you owe, the more positive the liability balance will be. If you set the preference to Income & Expense or None, then

Re: [GNC] Variables in Scheduled transactions

2023-01-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are you using GnuCash 4.13? I just tested this and I only get one prompt. Regards, Adrien On 1/4/23 10:53 PM, Stan Brown wrote: My mortgage payment (say 900.00) is the same each month, but of course every month interest (intamt) is a few cents less and principal (900-intamt) the same few

Re: [GNC] Transfer between receivable accounts

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There's no direct method of transferring balances or payments between AR accounts. (sadly, but GnuCash is not unique in this regard) Some type of intermediary account would be required. (likely, one that is a sub-account of AR so as not to disrupt the overall AR balance) While not as 'clean'

Re: [GNC] new user, new file

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Strange. Placeholder would stop you from editing or adding transactions in the account, but it doesn't stop me from creating a sub-account. Try creating Owner's Capital as a sub of the parent: Equity instead. Also, what version of GnuCash and what OS? Regards, Adrien On 1/3/23 4:07 PM,

Re: [GNC] new user, new file

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Jamie, Please use Reply-List or Reply-All to keep the discussion on the list. I've copied your personal reply below. I'm not sure why that would happen. I just added an Equity account with no issue. Let's be sure we're discussing the same thing. At initially creating a new book with

Re: [GNC] new user, new file

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It sounds like you are considering your current personal payments as your equity investment as you pay, rather than fronting the money and then using it from there. You should be able to simply: Dr. Expense Cr. Equity:Owner's Capital (or whatever you determine is the best name for that

Re: [GNC] Clarification of Total (Period) column

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hmmm... I'm seeing the same thing. It appears to default to 'this year' regardless of the setting. I'd call that a bug. Regards, Adrien On 1/3/23 3:14 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: I have added a column called ‘Total (Period)’ in the accounts view page but I am not sure what that period is? I

Re: [GNC] Problem adding a split to a currency conversion.

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 1/3/23 2:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Unless I am mistaken, it is not easy to delete transactions when using the business features. I don't think one can simply delete a transaction and it goes away. You can't delete invoices, but you can remove their entries in your books by un-posting.

Re: [GNC] Delete / Edit invoice doesn't?

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That is true, but not the reason GnuCash doesn't offer the facility to delete them. (you could edit and change the invoice number, as a work around) Maybe Derek can shed light on the code reasoning. I vaguely recall it being discussed a few years ago, but I long since lost that thread.

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't think they end up in the same place. I also checked the archive and the message was not there. I only saw it because you also happened to copy me personally. gnucash-user@gnucash.org works gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org did not go through. Regards, Adrien On 1/3/23 11:47 AM, Simon

Re: [GNC] Problem adding a split to a currency conversion.

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 1/3/23 7:08 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I have the following situation I'm in the UK, where the currency is GBP A customer in Poland paid $540 for consultancy via Zoom. He paid in advance, so I've not added him as a customer under the business features. Murugan answered the main question on

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Interesting approach concerning modifying the tax invoice. I'd say all of that sounds correct to my understanding as well, save I think you have the Scheme—HTML bit reversed. The files are in Scheme, which generate the report as an HTML table. (not the other way around) I'm pretty sure

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Is this just a one-off? I'd just enter the transaction. If it is complicated and you already have an instance in a register, duplicate it. If it hasn't ever occurred, and you don't want to manually enter it, edit to run today, click Actions > Since Last Run to fire it off, then edit to revert

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That's "dialect" of Lisp. (please excuse my fingers not syncing with my brain) Regards, Adrien On 1/3/23 12:15 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Scheme is indeed, a dialog of Lisp. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To u

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Simon, I'm not sure why this reply from you was not appearing on the list. The server must have had a hiccup. I'm quoting and replying inline below. Regards, Adrien On 1/2/23 9:21 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: Oh... so the fields to show are specific to the invoice? Oh, that's a pity, and we

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not a bug. Most likely a design decision. Not sure how you'd figure out what options to show if you don't know yet which report you want options for... Stylesheets are not peculiar to a certain report. You can edit them independently, then assign them to reports for use. Unfortunately, I

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Scheme. See the Wiki development section for links to details of the reporting system. (which isn't much as it is not well documented, for programmers, so far) Regards, Adrien On 1/2/23 8:05 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: Ah yes! I just found Edit->Report Options, which at first glance looks

Re: [GNC] Fields present in invoices?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The Options allow you to turn some things on or off explicitly, but they are not all-inclusive. You might want to investigate customizing a stylesheet, but that does muck with the workflow to get an invoice report in most cases, resulting in lots of clicks. Using a CSS rule like 'display:

Re: [GNC] Invoice emailing?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If by 'directly' you mean from 'within GnuCash', no, you can't. Since the customer's e-mail address can appear on the invoice in their info block, you might be able to set up a script, possibly combined with a folder 'watcher' that can automate e-mailing a resulting PDF from printing the

Re: [GNC] Invoice emailing?

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not that I'm aware of. You could export or print to file for each invoice, then attach the resulting document. This is entirely a manual operation though. You may want to investigate gnucash-cli, but I don't know if the business features are exposed there. A third option may be to script

Re: [GNC] Trial Balance Report Settings

2023-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Surprisingly, no, there is no such setting. Many if not most other reports have it. You can file an RFE (Request for Enhancement) at bugs.gnucash.org In the meantime, export or copy/paste the report to a spreadsheet and edit them out from there. Regards, Adrien On 1/2/23 9:51 AM, Benjamin

Re: [GNC] Crash on account delete

2023-01-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't know specifically other than there are some issues with 'libraries' on some systems. I've used the SQLite back-end on Linux and currently use it on Mac with no effort. Windows takes some work regardless of choice if I understand correctly. However, if you already have MySQL installed,

Re: [GNC] Crash on account delete

2023-01-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 1/1/23 6:36 PM, Xe Roy wrote: I have the latest version 4.13 downloaded yesterday running on Windows 11 on AMD Ryzen 9 5950x. Thanks for the clarification, and good to know you are up to date. I can't remember if the account I was trying to delete was the placeholder or the subaccount.

Re: [GNC] Crash on account delete

2023-01-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
First, Welcome to GnuCash! As with most issues, but particularly with crashes, can you provide the version of GnuCash you are using and the Operating System? Now, for some additional detail questions: 1. Did the account you were trying delete contain transactions? If not, was it set as a

Re: [GNC] Printing Invoices

2023-01-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
When you bring up the invoice report from the Reports menu, no invoice is selected, so this is a correct message. The message *should* be giving you a link to click bringing up the General tab of Options, but if not, click the Options button on the toolbar (which should default to the General

Re: [GNC] how to use information of vendor and customer for report as a same person

2023-01-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash doesn't have the ability as of yet to combine Customer/Vendor accounts. The best option I can think of is to create them both as separate entities (customer & vendor) and handle them separately. Where you have cross-over in credits/payments, you'd need to set up an intermediary

Re: [GNC] One File, Two Users

2022-12-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/31/22 2:43 PM, Paul Kroitor wrote: 1. Put the data file in an existing MySQL server in the cloud and allow the MySQL lockout mechanisms to deal with access conflicts; No go. At least if you're considering the MySQL backend. GnuCash doesn't use it except as a store. It reads the

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not sure where you saw that odd string. It didn't appear in your last post. Binaries would be stripped off anyway. It must be something with your mail client. Regards, Adrien On 12/31/22 6:56 PM, Robert Kesterson wrote: I don’t know what that content is, but I didn’t knowingly post a binary

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not boring. Well detailed, thanks! It looks like that rules out file-access issues. Okay, last gasp here: For safety, I'd make 2 copies for testing. 1. Update prices via GUI rather than CLI. Check if transactions disappear. Exit, reopen, check again. Since you were running the CLI update on

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/31/22 1:18 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 at 00:13, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I would only use them for cases where you are billed (incurred the expense) before you pay, not at the same time. Why is that? Because that is the p

Re: [GNC] Config files?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/30/22 8:02 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: Thanks Murugan, that's really useful. First it tells me that I'm using a significantly old release (3.8, from the Ubuntu "built in" stuff). Better fix that, methinks. Are the data files I'm working on in 3.8 going to read directly into version 4, or

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Where is your data file? Are you using 3 separate physical machines, or are some of these VMs? If you've done various finds, reports, and other searches to eliminate data-entry error possibilities, and since this has happened more than once to the same data, I'm inclined to hazard one more

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Glad to know that worked! (and that there isn't another bug to squash) Regards, Adrien On 12/30/22 5:47 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Thank you. I think that you solved my problem. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I would only use them for cases where you are billed (incurred the expense) before you pay, not at the same time. Using your postage example: If you pay a company periodically for postage, quite possibly for more than one shipment, or have to take explicit action to pay a bill, use the

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/30/22 4:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: It's actually a bill, not an invoice, but I think they are pretty similar. When I unpost and edit, then look at the register, everything looks okay. Yes, similar code too. Just different terms based on perspective of Vendor vs. Customer. CR:

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
How do you do that for a posted bill/invoice? Mine is immutable. (and should be) Regards, Adrien On 12/30/22 4:32 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: I just modify the account on that one line to point to Postage.  It doesn't seem to hurt any and is a whole lot simpler than trying to enter the

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That's a matching problem on the import if I recall correctly. You have to fix it there. I've seen threads on the topic, but since I don't use it, the details are not sticky in my brain. If I understand properly, GnuCash *should* be able to match existing transactions and simply set the 'c'

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Another possibility: The transactions ended up in a different account. Do a Find from the Accounts tab from all sides of the transaction and see if they pop up when you think they are missing. Also, check the Orphan and Imbalance accounts. And another possibility: You have a View Filter on

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'll let others who use this feature provide more specific advice, but as to the general question of dates matching: I wouldn't expect my dates to match the bank's records. My dates would always be the date of the real-world transaction. The Bank's dates would be when the bank cleared it,

Re: [GNC] Bank account reconciled, will this change screw things up?

2022-12-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Since this is an invoice, you can't just edit from a register. 1. Unpost 2. Edit 3. Repost 4. Then check that the payment is still applied. (it should be and GnuCash tries to keep things tidy for you, but check just in case) *you do not need to delete the payment or pay the invoice again.

Re: [GNC] Deleting Transaction from Reconcile Deletes Wrong Transaction

2022-12-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That sounds like a GTK bug. You were raising a context menu on what was selected, not where the mouse pointer was located. If you had a line in the left pane selected, that is what got deleted. Maybe reverting to a backup file and making it your main file would be in order for restoring your

Re: [GNC] Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

2022-12-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Such restrictions would have no bearing as to if they should be separate or not. It has nothing to do with GnuCash or even accounting. If the respective governments simply treat them as equivalent to paper, coins, or other current digital blips, then they likely will not get separate currency

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
that are often worn by several distinct individuals using distinct software, and thus you may have to use multiple apps to suit your needs. Regards, Adrien On 12/28/22 1:50 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 02:01, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/28/22 1:50 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: 1) Can not generate a quote I recall this being considered for version 5.0 due out next Spring, but I haven't checked the status on the feature lately. Meanwhile, create invoices for printing/e-mailing, but do not post them. Edit them either

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/28/22 10:07 AM, R Losey wrote: While that is technically true, I enter credit card charges on the day I use the card, not when it clears... ditto for writing checks, and I suspect most people do it that way. Those generally *are* the days payment is legally made. When you hand over a

Re: [GNC] How to generate Budget V Actual Report for Profit and Loss

2022-12-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/28/22 5:38 AM, David Long wrote: Thanks Adrien for your reply. I have also been trying to produce a report showing this year's P compared with previous. I tried the multi column reports, but the descriptions repeat and the rows do not line up. Reporting Actual V Budget and prior years is

Re: [GNC] Improvement suggestion

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There are separate preference files, and saved report configurations are also separate. If anyone is concerned with backups for these, visit the GnuCash wiki concerning File Locations to see what directories need to be included in said backup strategy. (also useful when migrating to a new OS

Re: [GNC] "Path Head for Linked Files Relative Paths" - per file setting?

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm pretty sure there is a bug report filed for this enhancement, but I don't recall the current status. Regards, Adrien On 12/23/22 11:17 AM, tuuranton--- via gnucash-user wrote: Hello First, the *question*: Currently it appears the "Path Head for Linked Files Relative Paths" is a global

Re: [GNC] How to generate Budget V Actual Report for Profit and Loss

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You are correct. The current work-around is to finish off in a spreadhseet to add the missing Net Income calculation. Adding the Actual (and Variance) to the Budget Income/P version would be nice. (percentages would be awesome too!) I'm not sure that it is necessary for the basic Budget

Re: [GNC] What determines the order of transaction is CSV file?

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I was about to suggest the order was not random, but that if you exported multiple accounts, you'd see them in order, by-account. (so sorted on account first, then by date) Exporting individual accounts might produce a more sane result. While I'm sure there are use cases, I'd think there is

Re: [GNC] Add top-level account for both Income (Revenue) and Expenses (Other [Non-Operating] Income And Expenses)

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
1–5 already exist of course. 6 can be a sub-account of 3, or another top-level equity account. Personally, I'd go with sub-account, then export my P/Income Statement reports to a spreadsheet app to break off lines affecting 6 into their own section as is traditional for its use case. That

Re: [GNC] Is "Transaction -> Add Reversing Transaction" on menu okay for a refund?

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/25/22 7:04 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I made a transaction with PayPal for £0.60 on 28/03/2022, then cancelled it the same day. Is simply adding a reversing transaction on the menu okay for a refund? I previously put the wrong date (today) on a transaction that took place in March, so I

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I occasionally look at other registers and may even do Finds before committing a transaction. I do get a warning about wanting to save changes if I attempt to exit the register being edited, attempt to edit an already committed transaction in two different registers at once, or when exiting

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/27/22 6:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I am still getting used to this software. I don’t find it the most intuitive piece of software, but it will be beneficial to me. The other gripes that I have, are not ones that the developers want to fix 1) Can not generate a quote I recall this

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
As others have noted, there is no need for reverting to a backup file to make changes. And when you do so, are you then reverting back to the 'current file'? (you weren't particularly clear on that point) If so, you've now got 2 files with different transactions! And I use the business

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That warning already exists in the case of editing a previously reconciled transaction. The rules governing the warning have been greatly relaxed a few releases ago to reduce an annoyance for 'non-material' changes however. (the date, should still be 'material') You might have dismissed the

Re: [GNC] Do I need to set up multiple bank accounts for different currencies?

2022-12-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't think you'd have separate accounts. But you might want to turn on the Trading Accounts feature that can handle adjusting splits for multi-currency transactions. (such as getting paid in USD, but the bank shows receipt in GBP) I dare hazard a guess that if your account is denominated

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/21/22 5:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 21:39, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: I don't see why you went through the trouble of steps 2-4. Thank you. I showed my accountant my proposed layout and he didn’t comment. Maybe he

Re: [GNC] How can I refund this payment through PayPal, using business feature?

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't see why you went through the trouble of steps 2-4. I suppose if you managed to get back to zero, no harm no foul, but I'd anticipate you're going to have a big mess in the future with that setup. AP is usually one bucket - for all payables. GnuCash tracks each vendor for you, and

Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Glad that helped, thanks for reporting back! Regards, Adrien On 12/21/22 2:21 PM, TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE wrote: Thanks, Adrian. You're right about the '#' being needed (at least on my system). Once I got the correct font spec working with the "*" I tried with and without the '#', and only with

Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

2022-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
My understanding is that even using the term 'CSS' with respect to GTK is a stretch. It certainly is not conformant in many other areas, but that's good to know for browsers. Regards Adrien On 12/21/22 4:59 AM, Fred Bone wrote: Also, I'm surprised the wiki doesn't show this, but I'm fairly

Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Terrence, You nearly had it right the first time. You need the "#" in front of the selector: "#gnc-id-main-window" The initial post you made left off the '#' sign at the beginning. If it is not there in your CSS file, that would be why it didn't work. That symbol indicates a CSS 'id' and

Re: [GNC] How to define the "Action" list in, e.g., Edit Bill

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can type anything you want, but you can't edit the default list short of editing the code and compiling a custom version of the app as it is currently hard-coded. Regards, Adrien On 12/20/22 7:59 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: How does one define that "Action" list in "Edit Bill"? I cannot

Re: [GNC] Bills: can I tag them other than by "Job"?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can, but unfortunately none of that is accessible outside of the bill. (at least not usefully, like in a search, or report filter) I think there is a standing bug about Notes being overridden by the first line-item Description/Memo. And I don't think they are editable in the AP or other

Re: [GNC] "Edit Bill": How do "Bill ID" and "Billing ID" differ?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/20/22 4:57 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: Yes, someone else clarified that "Bill ID" is an ID we assign (e.g., purchase order?), while Billing ID is the number assigned by the vendor (usually / often "Invoice #"). In the documentation I saw some old screenshots. Seems the "Bill ID" used to be

Re: [GNC] How to handle inventory assets in GnuCash?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There are plenty of apps out there of various sorts, many of course are open-source and free, as in beer, and not just as in speech. (usually 'community editions' of paid-for apps, but some are just free, like GnuCash) Some are quite complicated and maybe more than you want to chew on, such

Re: [GNC] Best practice to change name of GnuCash file ("book")?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Those are backup files. (explained in the Help you said you were reading...) If you need to restore it, open GnuCash, then File > Open and choose that backup. Then File > Save As, and give it the original or desired name. You can then delete the backup and mangled 'original' file if desired.

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Right below that is 'Reset Default Layout' if needed. Regards, Adrien On 12/20/22 11:18 AM, Eric Chapman wrote: Everyone: I also found this setting when in "Edit Bill": *View*>*Use as Default Layout for Vendor Documents* I have found that if I click in the header on the rightmost column it

Re: [GNC] Way to change display of vendor info in Vendor List?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I have my city, state, zip in Address 2, but it does not matter. (there may be other places it might, and you might end up with intervening blank lines in your case) Most screens like the Vendors & Customers overviews share a similar header to other tabs like Accounts. There is a drop down

Re: [GNC] What accounts should I reconcile?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You mean the Reconciliation Report? There is an option to only show unreconciled transactions. You can also filter a register view to unreconciled and mark them as 'cleared' then perform a reconciliation. The reconciliation window itself shows you if transactions that are unreconciled, with

[GNC] MacOS GTK Quirks with 4.13? was Re: Changes: Macbook Pro

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm on Monterey on an Intel iMac and I've noticed some quirks right off with 4.13 too. I'll hazard that they are likely GTK based and not GnuCash issues. (I didn't look yet, but if 4.13 was built against a newer version of GTK, that might explain it) I'll try to investigate more and file bugs

Re: [GNC] Why can't accounts called "Credit Card" be "A/Payable"?

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The purpose of the Business Features is to handle accruals. Accounts Payable is the account traditionally used for this for Expenses incurred on credit. It holds the liability for the expense, from the time it is incurred, to the time it is paid. This allows you to record activity on the

Re: [GNC] 4.13

2022-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
dmg is the ending suffix of a Mac 'Disk Image' file. It is used to package software and other items for transfer between MacOS systems. In this case, GnuCash is distributed as a '.dmg' file. When you open it on a Mac, a Finder window opens showing the contents of the 'disk'. You can then

Re: [GNC] 4.13

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are you on a Mac by any chance? You need to open the dmg and drag gnucash.app to Applications. (the dmg now has the shortcut to make it easier) Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 10:54 PM, Orith wrote: good morning, *I downloaded and followed the instructions. but, when I opened the "about" the

Re: [GNC] 4.13

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You must have downloaded the wrong file. Mine says 4.13. Be sure to get it from gnucash.org which takes you to SourceForge. (you can also download from the official GitHub repo also linked from gnucash.org) Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 10:54 PM, Orith wrote: good morning, *I downloaded and

Re: [GNC] QIF Import troubles

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not counterintuitive at all, but rather a matter of perspective. You might be familiar with a bank 'crediting your account' which increases its balance. Now, you wonder why in your own books, crediting your bank account decreases the balance. That is because from the Bank's perspective,

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Just to be clear, you Process Payment separately from posting. (there is an option to Pay on posting, but you still enter it separately) It is in the Process Payment dialog that you choose the Transfer Account as Credit Card, *not* when you post - that should be to AP. You can certainly have

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not sure what you mean, I've attached a screenshot of my Edit Bill window. Is this what you are seeing? Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 9:17 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: Adrien, I appreciate your help. For whatever reason I did not see the "Post" button at the top :) What does the "BIL" column at

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I forgot to mention, there is an option when posting Bills to 'consolidate splits'. If you do so, the AP entries will be rather simple. The only way to see line-item detail in that case, would be to view the invoice. This may be fine for your use case. If however, you want to easily do

Re: [GNC] How to use Vendors & Accts Payable, but pay via Credit card?

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Eric, You open a Bill with its line items going to Expenses. When you post the Bill, you are asked what account to post to, which as you noted would be AP. When you Process Payment, you will choose the 'transfer account' as your Credit Card account. Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 8:59 PM,

Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don't think it will be an issue, though that doesn't mean you won't find a bug or two. I use extended characters in some memos and descriptions and haven't had any problems so far. You can even use emoji, I'm pretty sure, though I do not. Regards, Adrien On 12/19/22 7:47 PM, Dr. David

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/19/22 8:29 AM, Alaa Zeineldine wrote: When I receive payment for an invoice amount that is not a whole number, (say $140.16), the Process Payment window rounds the fraction part of the amount. In this case the invoice value will show as $140.00. But the payment I receive is the exact

Re: [GNC] Rounding discrepancy in payment processing

2022-12-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Strange, I've been using the Payment feature since *way* before 4.6 and still using it on 4.12 (4.13 is now out too) and I've never encountered this. All payments are always exactly as entered. What operating system? (I'm on MacOS at the moment, but I've used GnuCash on Linux and can still

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Indeed, §6.4 Multiple Split Transactions, particularly steps 10–15 cover this. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-multi-enter.html Regards, Adrien On 12/18/22 4:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Though I also suspect this is covered in the Documentation which gets rare

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
explicitly. Though I also suspect this is covered in the Documentation which gets rare attention from new uesers. (I'll have to drag that up to confirm myself.) Regards, Adrien On 12/18/22 3:37 PM, Liz Dodd wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:15:41 -0600 Adrien Monteleone wrote: I'm not certain

Re: [GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/18/22 2:20 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: Hi, everyone, I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. I have some

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 12/18/22 5:09 AM, p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: Investigation this morning has established:    * The system is set up in Basic Ledger Mode    * The test transactions were entered in the Bank Account    * The Bank Account shows no record of the test

Re: [GNC] Splitting a Transaction (Newbie Question)

2022-12-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The transaction didn't disappear entirely when you pressed ENTER. And that is the proper way to commit the transaction. There's nothing random about how it works. If you are viewing a register that is not one of those you are entering amounts for, it will be gone from view, because it doesn't

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