Re: [GNC] [regression] delete key functionality lost after pasting into a transaction field

2018-09-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I think this is already fixed for the upcoming 3.3 release. (end of September?) Regards, Adrien > On Sep 1, 2018, at 4:37 PM, jim.e wrote: > > I also am having the same problem of after pasting to a transaction, > backspace and delete keys don't work. > Thanks > > > > > -- > Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Budget module transfers

2018-09-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes it does. For example, you can budget part of your income towards savings, or perhaps paying off a mortgage. Regards, Adrien > On Sep 3, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Roger Oliver wrote: > > At the bottom of the budget window their is a summary of income, expenses > and transfers. The transfer row was

Re: [GNC] A feature request for next release

2018-09-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
version. Regards, Adrien > On Sep 3, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > >> Not sure about the tooltips, but some (not all) icons have labels defined. >> If they did, then both would show by default as they do

Re: [GNC] How to best set up account structure for multiple Tax IDs?

2018-09-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m not certain about allowable characters but the Account Code is used for sorting. Formal accounting procedures use somewhat standardized charts of accounts which are coded by number. All asset accounts are in a certain range, liabilities in their own range, etc. Rather than refer to accounts

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Flatpak 3.2 Mysql issue

2018-09-04 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While --share=network should give you access to unix-sockets, I don’t think that includes access to ‘/etc/hosts’ which lies outside of the sandbox therefore, I’d suspect the reference to ‘localhost’ is not resolving, so only the actual IP address will work. Regards, Adrien > On Sep 3, 2018,

Re: [GNC] A feature request for next release

2018-09-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
3 september 2018 19:32:50 CEST schreef Rich Shepard: >> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> It doesn’t appear that way from what I’ve tested so far. >> >> Adrien, >> >> Okay. Thanks for testing. >> >> Regards, >> >>

Re: [GNC] A feature request for next release

2018-09-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
r css > can > now be used to hide either icon or toolbar :) > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op maandag 3 september 2018 19:32:50 CEST schreef Rich Shepard: >> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> It doesn’t appear that way from what I’ve tested so far

Re: [GNC] date range on budget report

2018-09-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rob, The options for the budget report do allow you to choose which periods you want to report for. (at least as of v3.2) Look at the General tab starting with the Range checkbox. You could say, run the report for July, August, September (Q3) add the Total and Difference columns (from the

Re: [GNC] Paying an exmpense that will be pertially re-imbursed.

2018-09-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:33 AM, jjlwork wrote: > > When I get my power bill I pay the whole thing from my checking account. I > send my girlfriend how much I paid and she transfers me her share and it > gets deposited back in my checking account. So the first transaction is for > example $100

Re: [GNC] Transfer Account Changes - Sometimes?

2018-09-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Jack, Consider the practice of always entering your transactions in the register the money is coming from. (A credit to either an asset such as Checking or liability such as a credit card) This way, one side of the transaction will always be the same. (in that register) Then your

Re: [GNC] date range on budget report

2018-09-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
w I guess I will try > customizing to remove the fourth column and tweak the column labels. > > Thanks again for setting me on the path to success. > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:33 PM Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > Rob, > > The options for the budget report do allo

Re: [GNC] gnucash crashing in ubuntu 14.04

2018-09-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Good to know, thanks! Regards, Adrien > On Sep 24, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op maandag 24 september 2018 17:14:25 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> There is a flatpak but I believe it is still at version 2.6.19. It was made >> independently

Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year.

2018-09-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
e categories are > the same otherwise it means shuffling some part rows down to accommodate a > new year with additional categories. > > Await the new version!! ... must say I do enjoy using the App anyway > > Kind regards > > DAvid > > -Original Messa

Re: [GNC] Location of GnuCash data files

2018-12-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It should probably be filed in Bugzilla, but I think it might already be there. I seem to recall asking this question myself some months ago after a thread about user confusion over these files. I unfortunately can’t find the thread and don’t remember the exact final point, but I do remember

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, I too have had mixed results *opening* the saved file, but copy and paste works every time. I’m pretty sure the wiki reference to this specifies copy and paste as the preferred method, but I’ll double check. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 2, 2019, at 10:51 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ruth, The first time you run GnuCash, you may need to right-click and choose “Open”, then confirm in the pop-up dialog that you want to open the app. After that, left double-clicking should work fine, or you can launch it from your dock like any other app. You’ll have to repeat this

Re: [GNC] Trying to install GNUcash 3.4.1 on IMac

2019-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The screenshot didn’t make it through. To be sure, did you ‘install’ the application to your /Applications folder or some other folder *outside* of the .dmg and *onto* your hard drive or are you trying to simply run the app from inside the .dmg? (you can’t do that by the way) Once copied to

Re: [GNC] new to gnucash

2019-01-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Nothing counter-intuitive about it. It’s a matter of perspective. People are used to hearing the bank telling them that putting money in their account is a ‘credit’ to their account. That’s correct for the bank, because your account is their liability. Increasing a liability is done with a

Re: [GNC] Budget Reporting|Charting Questions and v3.4 Question

2019-01-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The Budget report allows you to see planned vs. actual and a variance column. You can pick and choose which accounts you want to include. You might need to play with the setting for parent accounts concerning if those lines show only amounts in the account or if they include child account

Re: [GNC] Lost all my transactions on Gnu cash

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Back to the original problem, I would suspect maybe a viewing filter is at play? That *could* explain why some transactions aren’t visible. The read-only problem *could* be a permissions issue on the file itself. If register transactions are the only thing that is ‘read-only’ then I’d say that

Re: [GNC] Currency symbol (INR) not showing on Tax Invoice report

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can have multiple versions installed at once, they just either have to be installed in different locations, or if you want them all in /Applications, they each need to have different names. (can’t have two files with the same name in any directory) An easy choice would be to append the

Re: [GNC] Tax Issues

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry I don’t have a copy of 3.3 handy to test, but on 3.4 it works as expected. (I’m using MacOS) As a side note, I did notice how annoying it is that one can’t assign multiple accounts to be tax related without exiting the dialog. Clicking ‘OK’ closes the dialog and the user has to go back

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Truncates saved-reports-2.8

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I’ve seen that very strange issue happen on two other occasions, once with a mailbox file and once with an XML file. I can’t fathom why the OS reports less data than is really there as it shouldn’t care if the file is malformed or not to the filetype’s specifications when it reports

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Tr

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
the original reports file > from a backup. > > So, long story short, the errant report was (probably) causing Gnucash to > truncate the file if I asked it to save a report. > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:14, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > I understand what you mean by they w

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It seems the Balance sheet honors the setting, but using the ’None’ option in Preferences produces a disconcerting result. With the option set to Credit Accounts, all amounts (normally balanced) are positive. With the option set to None, the Liability and Equity line items are negative, but

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Truncates saved-reports-2.8

2019-01-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
ecause Gnucash consistently > put the original file into saved-reports-2.4-backup. All 182kb of it. > > David > > On January 17, 2019, at 2:07 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > David, > > I’ve seen that very strange issue happen on two other occasions, once

Re: [GNC] Tax Issues

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> say, multiple dividend accounts entered as subaccounts under Income:Dividends. > > David T. > >> On Jan 17, 2019, at 2:15 AM, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> Sorry I don’t have a copy of 3.3 handy to test, but on 3.4 it works as >> expected.

Re: [GNC] Treating tax authority as a vendor

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ron, I do this for property taxes with no issues that I can think of. If you want to do this with pass through payments like sales taxes/VAT you might need to think carefully. In such cases, you’d likely post via the invoice the tax charged/collected to a "Liability:Sales Tax Due" account or

Re: [GNC] Currency symbol (INR) not showing on Tax Invoice report

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can assign a stylesheet to the Tax Invoice in options. (it uses the Default stylesheet, by default) So via Edit > Stylesheets you can either specify a different font for the Default stylesheet that contains the symbol, or add a new stylesheet just for the Tax Invoice. If you’re changing

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Check the FAQ on the wiki concerning file locations. Each OS is different and there are specific paths for the various configs, reports, et cetera for linux listed there. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 17, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: > > What folder or files can I copy from one Ubuntu to

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’ve encountered this use case before, though it was always on OS upgrades or transitions when distro hopping. I have sometimes wanted to migrate my data and my desired configs without carrying over configs from no longer used apps, thus trimming cruft for a *fresh* start. It might also be a

Re: [GNC] Features

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Welcome to GnuCash! > On Jan 16, 2019, at 1:27 PM, Kevin Kelly wrote: > > I’ve used Mondeydance for a long time. Unfortunately, updates to Mac OS have > impacted mouse actions and it is difficult now to navigate. I have no > complaints, it is free and I’ve gotten good use. Now, I need a

Re: [GNC] Currency symbol (INR) not showing on Tax Invoice report

2019-01-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In Character Viewer, look up the rupee symbol via a search. Click the glyph for it in the middle pane. You’ll then see a list of font variations on the bottom right. As you click each one, at the top right you’ll get an enlarged version and just below that, you’ll see the name of the font it

Re: [GNC] Windows/Ubuntu Transportable Data File?

2019-01-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
#1 as well as any other platform I suppose. Recent reports show 3.4 (as well as 3.3) runs successfully on at least as far back as Bionic. (18.04) So you could opt for the LTS release if you like. #2 as Stephen noted, you can easily pull files off a common drive with little to no issue. (just

Re: [GNC] Treating tax authority as a vendor

2019-01-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
with a vendor? > Would it gum anything up (reports etc) to post directly to AP? > > Ron > > - Original Message - > From: "Adrien Monteleone" > To: "Gnucash Users" > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:48:08 PM > Subject: Re: [GNC] Treatin

Re: [GNC] Copying settings, layout, and colors to another computer

2019-01-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You should have copied: ~/your_data_files ~/.local/share/gnucash ~/.local/share/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gnucash ~/.config/gtk-3.0 If that 2nd directory did not exist, then your GTK3 installation probably hadn’t a need to create it yet. Your custom CSS file (if you made one) should reside in the 4th

Re: [GNC] Reports in whole currency units

2019-01-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
; Richard > > On 18/01/2019 12:24, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Other than entering your transactions in whole dollars, no. >> >> An option would be to export or copy/paste to a spreadsheet and format those >> cells to truncate or round the amounts. There you can also

Re: [GNC] Currency symbol (INR) not showing on Tax Invoice report

2019-01-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
ort still doesn’t show the symbol. > > So for now, I am afraid I have to stick with the text version of the symbol. > > Cheers. > > On 18-Jan-2019, at 10:30 PM, > gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org> > wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Bootstrapping and Company Ownership.

2019-01-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This mailing list is not for official accounting or legal advice. It is for how to use GnuCash. (and help with any quirks, bugs, etc.) Everyone’s situation is different, influenced by their personal circumstance and their local laws. You should seek the advice of a *local* CPA and/or business

Re: [GNC] New Budget Data Date Range

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not the options for the Budget report, the options for the Budget. Open your budget. Click the Options icon in the toolbar. You’ll see a setting for Budget Period “beginning on” and make sure it is not for 4 years ago. (not sure why it would be without intentionally setting it.) Regards,

Re: [GNC] Cash Account Question

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yep, I’m one of those. I track every expense, entered from *where* I spent the funds. So if the money was the green folding kind (or coin) out of my wallet or pocket, I have an account for that. If I move money to/from my wallet, I track that too. And I routinely reconcile the amount. (no

Re: [GNC] New Budget Bar Chart Not Displaying

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This means the date range for the report (default is start & end of current accounting period) does not match the budget. For example, I opened a chart for the 2018 budget and got a blank page. When I changed the date range to start & end of previous year, I got charts for my selected accounts

Re: [GNC] New Budget Help

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Lorrie, Sorry I don’t have time at the moment to watch the video to comment more specifically, but I *can* tell you that the ’Transfers’ line is to reflect amounts entered in asset and liability cells. So entering expenses should not affect it. I wouldn’t necessarily budget income to the

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry to break this to you after the fact, but GnuCash could have moved all those transactions for you in a second or two. In the future: 1. Create new account 2. Delete old account 3. When GnuCash asks you what to do with all those transactions, tell it the new account to move them to.

Re: [GNC] Reports in whole currency units

2019-01-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Other than entering your transactions in whole dollars, no. An option would be to export or copy/paste to a spreadsheet and format those cells to truncate or round the amounts. There you can also show amounts as multiples of any value you like, for example, reporting in K’s or M’s of dollars.

Re: [GNC] Problems with Budget

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Peter, You copied the list which is the important part. While you included me, I only get the list copy. (that used to not happen, I think a mailman bug or setting was fixed) On that note, please *DO NOT* e-mail me only (and not the list) concerning GnuCash questions unless invited to do so.

Re: [GNC] Problems with Budget

2019-01-23 Thread Adrien Monteleone
composes in HTML, I received the HTML version instead of the usual plain text version I prefer from Mailman. (odd that Mail.app doesn’t allow me to specify plain text receipt, only plain text sending) Regards, Adrien > On Jan 23, 2019, at 6:50 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Pet

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What do you mean by, "My reconcile is a bit erratic.”? You can re-reconcile a period if needed. There is also a reconciliation report and you can view a register with a filter to only show reconciled or non-reconciled transactions. You can also do a ‘find’ which gives you more options for the

Re: [GNC] Help with Macbook

2018-12-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
in advance > > Greg > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:43 PM Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > Greg, > > In addition to Google and Yahoo, that search filter Stephen noted should also > work with DuckDuckGo, StartPage and Bing if you are more comfortable using > them. &g

Re: [GNC] Budget Issue

2018-12-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Peter, Did you not see my last reply to this issue concerning grid lines and blank child cells vs. parent cell totals? Also, no need to start a new thread on the same question. It will be hard for others to follow along and see what resolved it for you in the future. Regards, Adrien > On Dec

Re: [GNC] Budget Issue

2018-12-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
d. > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+peter088=petermacdonough@gnucash.org] On > Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone > Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:27 PM > To: Gnucash Users > Subject: Re: [GNC] Budget Issue > > Pete

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
tement generated by a download of transactions at > the time of the download. I don't care about monthly statements because > I use a week for accounting, not a month. > > > Phil Hays > > On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 14:14 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Phil, >> >> What a

Re: [GNC] Budget Issue

2018-12-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
another place to look? > > Thanks, > > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+peter088=petermacdonough@gnucash.org] On > Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone > Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:27 PM > To: Gnucash U

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
so have monthly statements that I rarely > look at... Is there a reason why I should? > > > Phil Hays > > > On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 11:58 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> You should always use the ending balance, never the “latest" or >> “today’s&

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m not sure I’m entirely following the timing exactly, but many insurances, and it looks like your’s falls in this category, are pre-paid. Thus they are assets until they are ‘used’. So when you make the initial payment: Dr. Assets:Current Assets:Pre-Paid Assets:Insurance Cr. Assets:Current

Re: [GNC] Data entry problem

2018-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There are some known bugs dealing with input and selection. Check Bugzilla. In the meantime, can you click out of that cell, then back into it and edit as needed? At the least you should be able to select the entire incorrect entry and re-enter it correctly even if the delete or backspace keys

Re: [GNC] report filtering

2018-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Do a ‘Find’ and use Number as the field to match. The result will be a register showing only matching transactions, you can then run a ‘register report’ from there. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 20, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: > > I'm using GC3.3 and trying to get a report out. > > I

Re: [GNC] Data entry problem

2018-12-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m pretty sure it was a patch due to be included in 3.4. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 20, 2018, at 8:01 PM, stephen.m.butler51 > wrote: > > Interesting. I thought it was fixed there. Maybe it was a patch to 3.3. > I'm running almost the latest set of patches and don't have that problem. >

Re: [GNC] Import Bills & Invoices: how can I use e.g. \S in the custom regular expression for import?

2018-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Rob, Although it *shouldn’t* work right, did you happen to try just using ’S’ without the leading ‘\’ and letting GC insert it? Is the result ‘\S’ as intended? Certainly, that would be a bug, but you might still get the result you want. (at least for that narrow case) Regards, Adrien > On

Re: [GNC] Import Bills & Invoices: how can I use e.g. \S in the custom regular expression for import?

2018-12-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
21, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Rob Laan wrote: > > Yes, I even tried that! But luckily no result; it would have been pretty > weird if that had worked ;) > >> On 21 Dec 2018, at 23:37, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> Rob, >> >> Although it *shouldn

Re: [GNC] Budgeting

2018-12-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
s there a way to set those values as well? > > Thanks very much, > > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+peter088=petermacdonough@gnucash.org] On > Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone > Sent: Monday, 10 December

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Interest

2018-12-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hamid, This certainly looks like a usage issue to me. Perhaps you are misunderstanding a prior response. If you need to set up non-interest bearing loans, use the Scheduled Transaction feature. If the loan you need to set up is interest-bearing, then use the Mortgage Assistant. Both types

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
actually do. On the date of the payment that transaction will be correct, but not until then. Of course, for personal finances, one might not care that a balance sheet in the interim will be incorrect. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 16, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Stan Brown wrote: > > >> From: Ad

Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayments

2018-12-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
payments > so I'm pretty sure I can just expense them. > > Best, > Tom > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Adrien Monteleone" > To: "Gnucash Users" > Sent: 12/15/2018 4:41:12 PM > Subject: Re: [GNC] How To Handle Prepayment

Re: [GNC] TRANSFER transactions

2018-12-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David Brown, Your post is a bit contradictory. Do you want to "transfer all individual accounts to the single parent account?” or Do you want "to have a single parent and 5 child accounts?” Those are two different things. To accomplish the first, that is, move all transactions from five

Re: [GNC] Reconciling different periods?

2018-12-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You should always use the ending balance, never the “latest" or “today’s" balance. (unless ’today’ just happens to be the actual closing date on the statement - highly unlikely) Reconciling March ‘18 using the balance as of today, 12/13/18 (or any other date) is impossible, meaningless and

Re: [GNC] Accounts do not appear in budget

2018-12-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Do you have any transactions in those accounts yet? If not, they won’t show up by default. You can change this setting in View > Filter By... > Other > Show unused accounts. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 4, 2018, at 3:32 PM, Sadhna True wrote: > > I am a new Gnucash user, and I am using the

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-04 Thread Adrien Monteleone
True. I forgot about that one. I use sqlite and indeed it is always inactive. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > If it were an sqlite file then I don't think the Save button would > ever be enabled. > > Colin > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 16:

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-04 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you try to open the file with a text editor (I used Atom, because TextEdit complained about something wrong with UTF-8 in the file) you will see this at the beginning: SQLite format 3 If it is an sqlite format. If it is the compressed XML, you’ll see gibberish/non-printable character. If

Re: [GNC] 3.3 unstable on macOS Mojave

2018-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Some of us have also discovered that GTK is very particular about the name you use for the font. Search the recent list archives, but I *think* you need to use the ‘family name’ found using FontBook.app. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 3, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Dan Smith via gnucash-user > wrote: > >>

Re: [GNC] Budget Help

2018-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Peter, Do you have any accounts with transactions in them yet or is this your first steps with GnuCash? Are those accounts in the same currency as the default currency for your book? I’ve seen issues in the past that the budget will not show empty accounts, or accounts with different

Re: [GNC] Installation of Gnu Cash 3.3

2018-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Geert, You might not be seeing his screenshot (it is rather small and low-res however) which as we know doesn’t always come through It looks like Windows 10, with an error pop-up: "gnucash.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point inflate/validate could not be located in the

Re: [GNC] Installation on a Mac

2018-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That “Drag to Applications” thingy you see on some apps is a sort of visual ’trick’ - nothing fancy. You can set a background to any finder window. You can have a link to a location (shortcut). If you drag an item onto a link, Finder will copy the item to the link’s ultimate real location.

Re: [GNC] Installation of Gnu Cash 3.3

2018-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry, disregard. I see the OP posted this twice. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 3, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Geert, > > You might not be seeing his screenshot (it is rather small and low-res > however) which as we know doesn’t always come throu

Re: [GNC] How to Reclassify Invoice Amounts

2018-12-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You should really speak to a local CPA to get a clear direction and picture of how you need to handle the various issues particular to your jurisdiction. Revenue and expenses should not be in the same transaction and expenses should certainly not be on an invoice except in rare cases where you

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
or > DMS; just a data file, GNU Financial Data which, it appears, is exactly the > same on a PC and on a Mac and completely transportable between the systems > without modification. > When I do this, I will finalise this conversation by reporting on the result. > Regards > Richard &

Re: [GNC] Help with Macbook

2018-12-04 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Greg, In addition to Google and Yahoo, that search filter Stephen noted should also work with DuckDuckGo, StartPage and Bing if you are more comfortable using them. Enter your desired normal search phrase after the filter text. Yes, you’ll need to ‘install’ the GnuCash.app on the Mac you

Re: [GNC] budget hierarchy not same as account hierarchy

2018-11-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
create. For some reason the > accounts with zero in them don't appear in the budget hierarchy. > > So...I've found out how to do it by creating a false expense / income in the > accounts I need to appear in the budget. > > Thanks! > > Dave > > -Original Message- &

Re: [GNC] budget hierarchy not same as account hierarchy

2018-11-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Dave, If you go to Actions > Budget > New Budget it should create a new budget input window for you with all parent accounts collapsed. But expanding them all should show the same hierarchy as your CoA tab. I don’t think there is any way to even exclude an account from this window. (much less

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Richard, As Robert noted, your data file should open just fine. (caveat on double-clicking assumed) For the preferences issue he brought up, take a look at the wiki where preference and config file locations are stored on each operating system. Be sure to find them on your Win10 system and

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, Now, add on support for the U.S. where you have Federal rules, State rules, even some City rules, and then those rules vary by industry, filing status, income level, type of entity making the payment, and so on. The monster just keeps growing. Intuit must have a small army working round

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Stephen, You can learn it directly. My university didn’t even offer C except as part of their Operating Systems Design course. They start everyone off with C++. Regards, Adrien > On Nov 26, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > > > And I think the route to C++ is learning C -- or

Re: [GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2018-11-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is at least one bug filed on text selection issues. I’m not sure if this is part of the same problem. Regards, Adrien > On Nov 28, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Jack Slater wrote: > > Windows 10 > GnuCash 3.3 > > If cursor focus is on the numeric total in the CHARGE field (Example: the > entire

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
saved report configurations are stored in the >> user’s configuration directory, see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations < >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations> for where that is >> on each OS. >> >> Regards, >> John Rall

Re: [GNC] business Accounts Payable questions

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Jan 9, 2019, at 3:44 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: > > i'm new to using GC for business. > > i don't understand the format and behavior Accounts Payable account. can > you explain the 'Ty' column that starts with '?', then toggles between 'I' > and 'P'? are these 'type', 'invoiced', and 'paid'?

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ruth, Privacy settings of your browser should have no effect on the download or the file opening, but occasionally downloads don’t complete properly and can get corrupted. The solution is to simply re-download. Follow these steps *carefully*: 1. Download GnuCash 3.4, using either Safari or

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 1/9/19 10:06 AM, Les wrote: >>> As far as I can determine, there is nothing in preferences that >>> addresses this issue. Also, there are only 2 maybe 20 investment >>> accounts with this issue. >>> >>> Les >>> &g

Re: [GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2019-01-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m pretty sure it was included in 3.4 that was released at the end of December. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 7, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Jack Slater wrote: > > Any news on this fix? > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 2:07 PM Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > There is at least one bug fi

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
directory) Regards, Adrien > On Jan 8, 2019, at 3:33 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 09:23, Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > >> Yes, on a clean installation of 18.10. But as I experienced with an >> upgrade from Xenial

Re: [GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

2019-01-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If I read Liz’s latest reply correctly, the issue is with an asset account. (bank) The status changed when she changed the description. The status did not change when she changed the debit split to a different expense account. So GnuCash seems to care if you change who the money was paid to,

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Jan 7, 2019, at 5:41 PM, DaveW wrote: > > Thank you Stephen and Colin, > > I am going around and around. I am a little confused as to whether the > instructions in the above thread apply to 18.04 or 18.10?? > Nevertheless, I followed the commands line by line, (Although I > note that

Re: [GNC] Gnucash errors

2019-01-04 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thomas, Please be sure to e-mail this list on all replies. I’m not quite understanding. What tabs are visible when the application starts? (at the very least you should have the “Accounts” tab) What do you mean by ’shows the data that I have entered...”? Can you provide a screenshot? (be

Re: [GNC] Trying to install GNUcash 3.4.1 on IMac

2019-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
ing went away. > > I removed the 3.3.1 Icon I use to start it with from the doc and then 3.4.1 > came up and ran fine. To be clear, 3.3.1 was not running at the time I tried > to run 3.4.1. > > Thanks for your help. > > Ron > > >> On Jan 3, 2019, at 3:58 AM, A

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I just tested the following using LibreOffice 6.1.0.3 and GnuCash 3.4: 1. ctrl+a (select-all) and ctrl+c (copy) from the report within the GnuCash report tab (not a saved file), then ctrl+v (paste) on a blank Calc spreadsheet. I was given a dialog to choose import coding, select my delimiters,

Re: [GNC] Different jobs for vendor or customer?

2019-01-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In line with David’s suggestion, I highly recommend turning on Transaction Journal view and Double-Line mode if you aren’t using them already. It takes up more real estate on your screen, but you are always seeing all info for a transaction. With this, you will see a note field just below the

Re: [GNC] Different jobs for vendor or customer?

2019-01-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
. A job can only have a single owner (vendor or customer) but any owner can have multiple jobs. Hope that helps. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 11, 2019, at 12:45 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > In line with David’s suggestion, I highly recommend turning on Transaction > Journal

Re: [GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

2019-01-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks for the clarification Geert, I’m going to follow your approach and say, “Let’s take a step back.” What exactly is a bank statement telling you? What are they tracking in their books? Why do you need a statement at all? As I noted in a previous reply (though that example was decades ago)

Re: [GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

2019-01-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I would say date is one of those ‘depends’ cases. Changing it to another date within the same period won’t alter the reconciled balance, but changing it to a date outside of the reconciled period of course would. Trying to determine the date range a reconciliation was done for is asking too

Re: [GNC] Copy a month's budget

2019-01-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Personal preference. For example, depending on the nature of the conversation, (like for multiple points/questions to discuss) I’ll use in-line, but I usually use top posting, as in this case. While I see it occasionally, bottom-posting is the least used in these parts as it means you have to

Re: [GNC] Bank Reconciliation Report with Beginning and Ending Balances

2019-01-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Kate, I did see the images, so I understand what you are looking for, but I can’t seem to make the report produce anything similar. Here are your options: 1. The reconciliation tool provides this info at the bottom right, along with the variance of what has been reconciled to what should be

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