[GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

2023-05-19 Thread Wm
of accounts if a *single* date or *single* account needs to be changed. Basically, if you have organised a good set of accounts, carefully put them together and saved them,  YOU ARE *insert your worst word*.  It is that bad. Fun fact? The p

Re: [GNC] Restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit specifics

2019-12-07 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 25/11/2019 18:33, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 11/24/2019 6:17 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing with restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever they are called where you live accounting better

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-12-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/12/2019 15:36, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like gnc

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-12-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/12/2019 15:36, John Ralls wrote: On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like gnc

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-11-30 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote: Which OS and perl version are you on? At the moment it is looking like gnc might need a more recent version of strawberry perl on Win but I can't quite work out why. If you

Re: [GNC] Non-cash charity contributions

2019-11-24 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
and either is an improvement on leaving things in the Orphan account. Leaving it in the Orphan is lazy thinking. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.o

[GNC] Restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit specifics

2019-11-24 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
Is anyone interested in resurrecting the possibility of gnc dealing with restricted funds and other charitable / not-for-profit / whatever they are called where you live accounting better? -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-11-24 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
work out why. If you (or anyone else) let me know your version stuff I'll try and work it out and take it up in the dev list or with the FQ people as appropriate. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your sub

Re: [GNC] Vanguard investments module for Gnucash / Finance ::Quote

2019-11-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
edn't be arsed with parochial code [1] [1] I'm hitting harder than I intend there, DerekR, I am aiming at people that don't realize there are people outside their immediate environ. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.o

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-11-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 25/08/2019 00:06, Richard Ullger wrote: On 23/08/2019 14:26, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: heads up, folks morningtstar.co.uk (and possibly other European versions) have changed some stuff that mean some F::Q requests have stopped working. This isn't gnc's fault. If you use a quote source

[GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

2019-08-24 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
with appropriate access let us know if the German / French / Italian / Scandinavian / etc versions of morningstar are similarly affected. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-24 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
isn't about gnc, this is about understanding the rules about charities. Having a dinner with friends and declaring it a charitable contribution is a bit last century. Hitting a women is also regarded as wrong. Voting a stupid man president or a buffoon prime minister is, however, allowe

Re: [GNC] Gnucash bug

2019-07-30 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
so you can at least recover them by playing the transactions back https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html might shed some insight on what happened. I think === I’m using 2.6.21 for production. === is more likely to be the problem. -- Wm ___ gn

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
anything: The GnuCash 3.x CSV transaction importer is pretty capable. yes, the importer is improving, it is getting close to being able to read it's own tx. when it can do that well, you can introduce your own tx to the stream. -- Wm ___ gnucash

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
model fails if you push it too hard. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please

Re: [GNC] How to handle bounced check

2019-02-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
ake a new invoice and let the person know you expect it to be paid. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If

Re: [GNC] Stock Quotes

2019-01-14 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
= $ua->request(GET "${ALPHAVANTAGE_CURRENCY_URL}" . "_currency=" . ${from} . "_currency=" . ${to} . "=" . ${ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY} ); === Own risk, etc. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
g, "I have pointed this out, what you do is up to you, gnc". I used to be more co-operative. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mail

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links What's misleading

Re: [GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
are merkin and have few external tx The other way is to go for Trading Accounts, but that means thinking -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, CURRENCY:EUR

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
ng so much for free. [1] I am known for saying that gnc should not be used for trading as it isn't suitable. For starters it records a price per day, think about the significance of that for an intra day trader. Duh! -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing li

Re: [GNC] Can't assign payment to multiple invoices

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/11/2018 10:39, Wail Yahyaoui wrote: Wm: If the payments really are unrelated to the invoices use the old fashioned payment on account method, i.e. reduce the balance on the Liability and tidy it up occasionally. > > I wanted to clean the unpaid invoice list. # > What do

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm
On 01/11/2018 09:19, Colin Law wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 08:23, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links Please point out the errors so it can

Re: [GNC] Question about sub accounts

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
’ with GnuCash” like you’ve asked, that’s what we’re here for. You are sort of right and sort of wrong, the OP wants something that gnc can do with effort but if you have brains you don't bother with. Envelope budgeting is, oddly, something Trump voters pay for. Weird. -- Wm

Re: [GNC] Question about sub accounts

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
s, spend at the lowest level and report at the highest level and drill down until you see what you do (or don't) want to see. BTW, this sort of Budgeting won't work in gnc so don't even try. Micro management of personal finance is best done in another way, I'd go so far as to suggest not doin

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
and it is all a mess, you can't even trust the website at the moment :( -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Can't assign payment to multiple invoices

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
if it could be ordered by invoice number in a given date. If the payments really are unrelated to the invoices use the old fashioned payment on account method, i.e. reduce the balance on the Liability and tidy it up occasionally. -- Wm ___ gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
change. [1] they develop an app, I understand Win users are a nuisance -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
at gnc towers decided to follow the MS idiocy model and put significant stuff in user / computer specific folders :( So what you suggest won't work. Gr! -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
pps model and get them to follow changes, losing bits of closely integrated accounting data is generally not fun. [1] a bad move in portable and non-portable terms, think disjointed backups. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To u

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
transactions and reports will work as expected. And if you think about it, gnc is reflecting reality, when you buy a RUB asset using CHF there are two exchanges, CHF => RUB => commodity. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-use

Re: Integrating Profit and Loss Report into a set of books and the trial balance

2018-03-12 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
-- there are many reports and many have similar names. said the man that didn't spot what the eguile balance sheet shows. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https

Re: Account Report/Register Report

2018-03-08 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
other than not understanding what is being reported? -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble

Re: Integrating Profit and Loss Report into a set of books and the trial balance

2018-03-08 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
atch what was expected If you are able to report honestly on those things you'll do your community a good service. Best wishes. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or

Re: Reporting based on search criteria and exprting transactions to excel. It's simple!

2018-03-05 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
checking if gnc's budgets are are ideal for you (they won't be) -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using

Re: Transaction report ?? currency symbol

2018-03-05 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
right is a general solution rather than a gnc specific one, A -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-03-05 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
into a spreadsheet. -- Wm Never trust a man that thinks teachers having a shoot out with someone that wants to kill their pupils is a good idea or one that doesn't understand metal exchanges. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: General Ledger

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 03/03/2018 13:47, Stan Brown wrote: On 2018-03-02 13:47, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 23/02/2018 12:52, Adrien Monteleone wrote: And unfortunately, this filter change is not sticky. You’ll have to reset it each time you load the GL. This is already a filed bug. AdrienM, it is not a bug

Re: How to get summary journal entries

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
e sheet and whatever else may be required by management. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabb

Re: General Ledger

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
is called so long as you know what is in it and what it is for. Remember: a good proportion of people will be seeing whatever it gets called in translation anyway so stop picking at the scab! -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: General Ledger

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
ing, the slightly blurred bits didn't spoil the view for me. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are us

Re: Alphavantage

2018-03-03 Thread Wm
is "leave it for a bit and try again at least an hour later". Yes, I know that doesn't seem very helpful but I think it is the right advice and at least you know it isn't personal :) P.S. If you haven't ever got a price for something that is a different quer

Re: General Ledger

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
. Depending on where you learned your accounting :) I don't know what GnuCash is calling a general journal. C'mon GnuCash is a transaction stream application with a few tweaks. It isn't calling anything. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

Re: General Ledger

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 23/02/2018 12:52, Adrien Monteleone wrote: And unfortunately, this filter change is not sticky. You’ll have to reset it each time you load the GL. This is already a filed bug. AdrienM, it is not a bug if you have many years of tx, promise. I like the narrow time window. -- Wm

Re: Big thanks, Windows version, multi-currency symbol bug ?

2018-03-03 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
st if the answer on the user list was correct. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, p

Re: Liabilities / Accounts

2018-03-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
gree about the rent but also think the payments should be made regular too. It just makes life easier. If I look at all the future stuff in the general ledger once a week or once a month I have a close to real future transaction flow. I commend accounting in advance when it is obvious. -

Re: Reports balance sheet - with explicit dual currency for "$"

2018-02-26 Thread Wm
th AdrienM in that I don't understand your use of currency pairing, BTW. See above about $ as a symbol being redundant. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https:/

Re: Reports balance sheet - with explicit dual currency for "$"

2018-02-25 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
to anything you want. I think most people use the 3 letter symbols rather relying on the $ -- Wm time passes while mods ponder ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://l

Re: A predictive bar graph needed

2018-02-14 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
leads to misunderstanding. cf Would you like to vote for Donald Trump and Would you like to leave the EU -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https

Re: Trading Accounts

2018-02-14 Thread Wm
to the IRS. The joy being that gnc doesn't take a view :) P.S. I sometimes forget I have to get through Liz first so you'll be reading this next week. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences

Re: Trading Accounts

2018-02-14 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
, at the bottom of my accounts list, there is a list of currencies and exchanges with totals for each. But, again, there isn't any difference in income and expenses. Trading Accounts may well help you given the mix of currencies. -- Wm ___ gnucash

Re: Trading Accounts

2018-02-14 Thread Wm
nger first, promise. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.g

Re: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff Combined into a Single Share

2018-02-09 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
the price editor to enter prices for whatever dates you like. I think you'll find it is the value that alters not the supposed price which is probably a nominal 1 for the OP. gnc deals well with the price changes but not so well with value changes. -- Wm

Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please

2018-02-09 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
useful to me to explain so no harm done. Who knows I may wake up with the answer tomorrow, I am certainly closer in my own mind. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubs

p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please

2018-02-07 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
investments ? is the concept of negative interest income really that unusual (it happens all the time in real markets so why don't gnc reports know about it ?) maybe I'm behaving stupidly and I just need a clue <-- let's hope it is this :) --

Re: export general ledger

2017-12-18 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
, but it is probably like that because someone had the same misunderstanding as you about separate account ledgers 15 or more years ago. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash

Re: export general ledger

2017-12-18 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
longer for my messages while someone checks if I have said something that one person in a faraway land of innocence might consider rude :) -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: export general ledger

2017-12-18 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 18/12/2017 10:32, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: On 18/12/17 03:26, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: On 17/12/2017 19:31, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: I'd like to export the general ledger to a csv file.  When I use File -> Export, however, I'm offered a choice of exporting income, expenses, ass

Re: export general ledger

2017-12-17 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
ely there are a number of scripts that can take gnc files of some flavour and produce ledger-cli / beancount compatible files which are generally mores useful than csv files for accounting data anyway. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.

Re: GnuCash: Docs: Where to document?

2017-12-13 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
dows is genuinely difficult. It involves exact versions of a whole load of supporting bits and pieces and as soon as any of those change you have to start again. -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mai

Re: Finance-Quote Price Issue

2017-12-09 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
who is doing what yet. In practical terms this isn't a big deal for me, I update prices once a week at most and have 3 stocks that are affected and I just edit the prices by hand by shifting the decimal point to the correct place. For someone else this could be a genuine PITA. -- Wm

Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax, Digital ?

2017-09-06 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
, this is not a big issue for the vast majority of UK users of gnc (the grand body doesn't exist) -- Wm ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your