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

2017-08-01 Thread Fred Bone
On 31 July 2017 at 13:55, Derek Atkins said: > Mike, > > mike.m...@gmx.net writes: > > >[If you don't mind me saying this: I haven't seen mailman lists for > >quite some years and I was a little surprised to see they still > >exist. I could not find any way how to add another

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

2017-07-25 Thread Fred Bone
On 25 July 2017 at 1:01, mike.m...@gmx.net said: >In about a year's time the UK taxman (HMRC) will only allow approved >accounting software to transmit the transctions required by law to >HMRC. The project is known as Making Tax Digital or MTD No exact >details or requirements to

Re: Scheduled transactions editor does not include ACTION feature | Use Bugzilla

2017-07-24 Thread Fred Bone
On 23 July 2017 at 19:34, aegross said: > GnuCash - User mailing list wrote > > the Action field in a given transaction. > > I am **not** talking about the ACTION field in any particular account > register. Rather, once a scheduled transaction has been setup; if that > transaction is going

Re: Scheduled transactions for part year

2017-08-09 Thread Fred Bone
#On 8 August 2017 at 13:21, IanM said: > New to gnucash so finding it a bit difficult to get my head round details > Council tax (UK property tax) is paid by 10 regular monthly payments each > year (i.e. 2 months with no payment). Can this be done with scheduled > transactions and if so how - or

Re: Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Bone
On 8 June 2017 at 18:41, Eric Coates said: [...] > But your comment has raised another observation: I updated (on 7th June) > my collected share values and AIR.PA had risen to €73.95 BUT the value > of the 89 shares is still reported as £3989 (in the "Present GBP" column > of the account

Re: Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

2017-06-09 Thread Fred Bone
On 9 June 2017 at 12:54, Eric Coates said: > Fred > > In my original post I included the following "89(the number of > shares)*€73.07(the value of each share)*0.87(the Euro to GBP exchange > rate) ie £5658" and compared that with the value £3989 as reported in > the account listing. At that

Re: Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

2017-06-10 Thread Fred Bone
On 10 June 2017 at 16:47, Eric Coates said: [...] > At some point, somehow I had managed to enter a price for Airbus shares in > GBPs (I've no idea how; when adding a price manually the price is > automatically set in Euros, I must have worked extra hard to make this > mistake!). I removed just

Re: Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

2017-06-10 Thread Fred Bone
On 10 June 2017 at 14:52, John Ralls said: > > > On Jun 10, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Fred Bone <fred.b...@dial.pipex.com> > > wrote: [...] > > I can verify that an old price in GBP trumps a new one in EUR. This > > *has* to be a bug, surely? > > > > I will

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 3 October 2017 at 19:16, Steve said: > Color me clueless, well, almost... > > Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. > > So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports > sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by > opening up each one, copying

Re: Enhancement Request for GNUcash

2017-12-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 5 December 2017 at 8:46, Mike or Penny Novack said: > Most of us reading this are having more than a little difficulty > understanding for WHAT you are asking. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Online quotes for funds

2018-06-10 Thread Fred Bone
On 9 June 2018 at 17:37, Graham Balin said: > Sorry to be a bore, but having cracked the stock quotes problem, I'm now > having trouble with funds. I suspect the problem lies in the display box. > Stocks are easy xyz.L or whatever, but how do I find out what funds should > be? > > I tried

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-29 Thread Fred Bone
On 28 December 2017 at 14:56, farleykj said: > Sorry, I thought I'd responded to the message about telling the agent what > browser it is identifying itself as. I'm using Perl, and the code I'm > using to see what's up is as follows: > > > use LWP::UserAgent ; > use LWP::Simple ; > > my

Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 177, Issue 52

2017-12-24 Thread Fred Bone
On 24 December 2017 at 12:12, Colin Whyles said: > Ticotexas, > > Under Tools there is a tool for closing books. I would advise making a > copy of your accounts in case anything doesn’t balance properly. I’ve > been caught out due to my own incompetence. It isn’t easy to undo closed > books. On

Re: Upgrade, 2.4 to 2.6 creates problems

2018-02-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 5 February 2018 at 7:50, John Ralls said: > > > > On Feb 5, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Eric Rempel wrote: > > > > I have been using Gnucash 2.4 for some 5 years on my Windows 7 system. > > I'm very happy with it. Over the weekend I upgraded to 2.6.19. 2.6 would > > not open an

Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 February 2018 at 14:04, Adrien Monteleone said: [...] > SQLite is a flat-file db using SQL principles. It has some limitations and > doesn’t work well for all situations. iTunes is probably the most widely > used app to employ it. (I think it was even designed by Apple especially > for

Re: [GNC] transaction filter

2018-08-01 Thread Fred Bone
On 01 August 2018 at 14:42, Harold said: > I filtered the transactions to show certain dates. Now, how do I get rid > of the filter?Thanks,Harold View->Filter By ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] GNC] Chart of Accounts sort order in v3.2 - Help

2018-09-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 04 September 2018 at 18:03, Stan Brown said: > I can confirm that the change did NOT happen between 2.x and 3.2. I > have 2.6.19, and when I click on Amount Name, in the Accounts tab, I get > only the choice of alphabetical and reverse alphabetical. I'm running 2.6.21 (on Windows 10) and I

Re: [GNC] Alphavantage quote displaying wrong currency and value

2018-07-08 Thread Fred Bone
On 08 July 2018 at 9:51, Mark Blakeney said: [...] > Then I eventually discovered the Type/Namespace > field serves no purpose whatever and can be configured to whatever you > want to make up! That field should be removed. The obvious purpose is to let the user group securities by type. If you

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 2.6.20 Report Problem

2018-04-15 Thread Fred Bone
On 15 April 2018 at 23:22, Christopher Lam said: > Hmm sounds like Windows versions come with guile-1.8. The following > change should fix this. Change line 271-272 in category-barchart.scm to: > > (define the-acount-destination-alist >   (account-destination-alist accounts account-types >  

Re: GnuCash: Register Entry Autofill

2018-03-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 March 2018 at 10:35, Charles Sliger said: > Is there any way to turn off the autofill function when ebtering > transactions in a register? > GnuCash frequently insists on creating a split transaction that I have to > deconstruct in order to enter a simple transaction. I've looked in the >

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-31 Thread Fred Bone
On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 12:31, Geert Janssens said: [...] > Another way to figure out where your current data file is stored: > * Open GnuCash > * Click on the File menu > * You will see a list of last-used files between the "Properties" and the > "Close" menu items * Hover with your

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

2019-01-03 Thread Fred Bone
On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 5:58, Jon Leech said: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 05:38:13PM +0530, D wrote: > > Jon, > > > > I can't test this right now, since I'm not at my machine... > > > > Try this: > > > > Open your source account. > > > > Move to the entry point in the register. > > > >

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Fred Bone
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 13:45, Robert Heller said: [...] > I think Finder does not pass filename parameters "on the command line", > but instead uses some inter-process communication API and not all programs > are coded to handle that properly, mostly because most non-Mac programers >

Re: [GNC] How to automate $ value on the contra account when editing a transaction

2018-12-03 Thread Fred Bone
On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 23:02, David wasserman said: > Okay John, I will try to be clearer. > > I am talking about inputting a new entry into an account. Say, my bank > account. So, in the register I could enter Date; Notes: Account to Debit; > Account to credit and their respective $

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Fred Bone
On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 9:44, David Carlson said: > Absolutely, I was not expecting agreement with the bank, I just think the > creation of an unbalanced transaction is bad form. There is no reason to expect that taking three rational numbers A, B and C, such that A=B+C, converting to

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

2019-01-24 Thread Fred Bone
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:14, Adrien Monteleone said: > Place the following in the Embedded CSS section of the Notes tab under the > invoice’s options: > > > * {font: “name of font"; } > > > This will change the font on the entire invoice. It should then render the > INR currency

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

2019-01-27 Thread Fred Bone
On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 21:50, Colin Law said: > In the original message, in the html section, the image is > > height="00145" border="0"> > > I guess that means it is an image on the senders mail server. No it doesn't. The cid= indicates that this is a multipart message

Re: [GNC] Fonts

2019-04-06 Thread Fred Bone
On Friday, April 5, 2019 at 13:05, Adrien Monteleone said: > Thanks Tim! > > I’ll add this to the wiki. > > This is good news and makes life less complicated for the Windows user > base. Assuming the CSS parser is obeying the rules, it should make no difference whatsoever whether the line end

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Bonus share entry

2019-03-06 Thread Fred Bone
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 22:00, Gnucash Xboxboy Mageia said: [...] > Hi Derek, > > I've attached a picture, I don't think I'm explaining very well. > > Please see attached. > > What can I do about that imbalance line? Delete it, and delete the price and value on the "buy" split.

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Bonus share entry

2019-03-06 Thread Fred Bone
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 22:38, Gnucash Xboxboy Mageia said: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:22 PM Fred Bone > wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 22:00, Gnucash Xboxboy Mageia said: > > > > [...] > > > Hi Derek, > > > > > > I've

Re: [GNC] How to set up Standing Order/Direct Debit with different first amount in GnuCash

2019-03-03 Thread Fred Bone
On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 15:35, Alan A Holmes said: [...] > I'm currently trying to set up a scheduled transaction for a rates bill, > where there are a total of 8 payments, with the 1st payment a different > amount to the other 7. Quicken used to allow this as a feature of setting > up

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-29 Thread Fred Bone
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:44, Adrien Monteleone said: > Try setting up sub-folders and mail filters. That might help at least > shunt the mail off out of your main inbox till you can look over it. > > I also commented in the other thread you can select digest mode, which > will give you

Re: [GNC] Need help with a Savings account

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 April 2019 at 19:12, ToddAndMargo said: > On 4/16/19 1:24 AM, Fred Bone wrote: > >> So I should switch my opening balance to a negative number? > > > Possibly. It rather depends on whether your account was overdrawn when > > you started your current books. >

Re: [GNC] Run GnuCash Upgrades Side-by-side With Older Versions

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 18 April 2019 at 10:51, Justin Mathew said: > Can the OP or anyone update whether the portable version worked parallel > to the installed version? > While I haven't used a recent edition via PortableApps, I did try v3 that way when it first came out, and it worked exactly as expected -

Re: [GNC] Switch to Account that a Transfer is from by Keyboard

2019-06-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 June 2019 at 9:27, David Carlson said: > I thought there was already a keyboard shortcut for that. In Windows > release 2.6.19, the letter *J* is underlined in the word *J*ump in the > *A*ctions menu, which is supposed to indicate a keyboard shortcut. > However, when I tried it today, I

Re: [GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

2019-06-19 Thread Fred Bone
On 19 June 2019 at 8:09, Colin Law said: > It really is better if you subscribe to individual emails rather than the > digest, at least while you have ongoing discussions here. Then you can > just use Reply All which is much easier. Or get the digest in MIME-Digest format, as supported by all

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Trans shows completed 5/8 but not in register?

2019-05-22 Thread Fred Bone
On 22 May 2019 at 10:43, Adrien Monteleone said: > Jack, > > I could be mistaken, but I’d think David is referencing the options to > “Create automatically” as the opposite of “To create” and > “Notify me when created” as “Show created”. No, he's clearly talking about the "To Create" and "Show

Re: [GNC] help lost data file

2019-04-09 Thread Fred Bone
On Monday, April 8, 2019 at 22:55, Eric Rathhaus office said: > So I used the go to command and got the first screen shot. opening the > book folder and I get the second screen shot. It’s odd that there are > so few files as I’ve used this program since 2012. And when I tried to > open any of

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Fred Bone
On 25 April 2019 at 9:56, AEG said: > Hi Eric, > > Thank you for your help with this. > I understand that the Symbol/Abbreviation should be SSE.L and that agrees > with what I used to use with AceMoney, but I'm a little confused about > what should appear under the heading "Namespace" in the

Re: [GNC] Need help with a Savings account

2019-04-16 Thread Fred Bone
On 15 April 2019 at 15:43, ToddAndMargo said: [...] > So, when I deposit something to the bank, I am actually > losing money (giving it to someone else), so it is a debit? No, you are handing it to them, so they owe it back. That's what "debit" means, after all. > So I should switch my opening

Re: [GNC] journal entries

2019-08-13 Thread Fred Bone
On 12 August 2019 at 12:57, Mike or Penny Novack said: > On 8/12/2019 12:45 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote: > > This is also similar to NetSuite, which is an on-line double entry > > bookkeeping service, and where "journal entries" are a special case > > transaction, even though by definition everything

Re: [GNC] multiple currencies in one transaction

2019-08-20 Thread Fred Bone
On 20 August 2019 at 13:17, Jeff Abrahamson said: > When I said price editor, I meant the price database.  I've been > assuming that the rates there are used for proposing rates on new > transactions. They are, but mainly because there has to be *some* default value. In most cases you will want

Re: [GNC] List subjects

2019-08-24 Thread Fred Bone
On 24 August 2019 at 18:40, David G. Pickett said: > Google seems to show a repetitive chain of problems of headers being > stripped.  It is nice to have the subject list at the front of the email, > but the body lacks any structure: headers, footers!  Mailman says they > should be > there: 

Re: [GNC] PSD2

2019-09-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 18 September 2019 at 10:37, Adrien Monteleone said: > Tim, > > Please DO NOT e-mail list members directly unless specifically asked to do > so. > > All messages should be sent to the list. > > I saw your original post to the list about this, but I have no idea what > ‘PSD-2 policy’ means.

Re: [GNC] Use of "dash" as a Separator Character

2019-07-23 Thread Fred Bone
On 23 July 2019 at 12:48, Adrien Monteleone said: > What happens if you accidentally trigger Imbalance or Orphan, does they go > to your custom accounts or does GC re-create them? I also have them as child accounts (under "Suspense"). They function perfectly well - in fact, only a couple of

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Calculations

2019-11-02 Thread Fred Bone
On 01 November 2019 at 12:34, John Ralls said: [...] > You could try adding this to fin.scm: > > (load-from-path "gnucash/app-utils") > (define (gnc:days-in-prev-month) (/ ( + 1 (- (gnc:get-end-prev-month) > (gnc:get-start-prev-month 86400)) This will produce a non-integer result if (a)

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 November 2019 at 19:17, Kay Robinson said: > Hi > > Whilst gnucash was minimised on my toolbar I had a short power outage. > When I re-booted the system I couldn't open my accounts because 'another > user was using them' I chose to open anyway, but couldn't save a change I > made. What

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

2019-12-15 Thread Fred Bone
On 14 December 2019 at 11:51, David Carlson said: > Now we making some progress! > > Since I do not use invoices and I am also living in the past on release > 2.6.19 in Linux, my experience is not germane, but I will note that I see > a tendency in regular account register windows for the date

Re: [GNC] Sub-accounts disappeared during upgrade 3.5 > 3.7

2019-12-16 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 December 2019 at 16:12, Paul Kroitor said: > Thanks David, > > I'm on Win 10, fully patched. I did try to look at the XML data files. > Unfortunately I had turned on compression and thus they're not human > readable unless someone knows a simple Windows decompression command line >

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 06 October 2019 at 7:48, armanschwarz said: > Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > > Software can’t fix you. Only you can fix you. You shouldn’t do the > > reconciliation till you have time not to rush it. The software won’t > > explode if you don’t reconcile by a certain date. > > Yeah I

Re: [GNC] Am I being a muppet?

2020-03-04 Thread Fred Bone
On 03 March 2020 at 17:50, Uttam Chakravorty said: > >1. Re: show previous years totals on account page? > > (Adrien Monteleone) > >"you can run the multicolumn Income Statement, from the Reports > > > Experimental menu. Select a range of several years in Options > General > > and

Re: [GNC] mortage calc

2020-01-29 Thread Fred Bone
On 29 January 2020 at 7:11, Alan Schold said: > Thanks. I did not realize there had been updates (do we get some sort of > notification?), You do if you are subscribed to this mailing list. 3.8 was announced Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:54:59 -0800 ___

Re: [GNC] Duplicate emails in GnuCash Digests

2020-02-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 05 February 2020 at 7:32, Alan A Holmes said: > >From a user perspective I see duplicate messages from "D via > >gnucash-user" for most, but not ALL, of D's posts. I don't recall > >duplicates from anyone else, but if there have been any it's only been > >the odd one or two, and not enough to

Re: [GNC] Is there GnuCash portable ?

2020-02-23 Thread Fred Bone
On 22 February 2020 at 22:49, Long said: > But, is it from gnucash team ? Assuming you are referring to the PortableApps version, then it's built from official GnuCash source for the PortableApps environment. You've already been told it wasn't built *by* the GnuCash team, but it's as much

Re: [GNC] Change the First Day of Week

2020-02-23 Thread Fred Bone
On 23 February 2020 at 8:22, Long said: > I reboot my computer to Linux Mint 19.3, and of course, my day & time > setup like windows 10, and it's have the same problems. Is it a bugs ? Why > this software over 20 years and still have that bugs ? Every piece of software ever created has bugs,

Re: [GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

2020-01-08 Thread Fred Bone
On 08 January 2020 at 0:13, Adrien Monteleone said: > David, > > It’s quite all right. I think it was just noticed first that some of > your replies were un-threaded. But as I noted also, this isn’t isolated > to just you. (and Derek might be on to something with the Android angle) > > I guess

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-01 Thread Fred Bone
On 01 January 2020 at 8:37, Greg Feneis said: [...] > My wish is that there was an easy way to install a newer GnuCash release > without giving up the previous, that they could run alongside each other > for a while. The PortableApps version usually seems too be one or two editions behind

Re: [GNC] Price of gold

2020-04-08 Thread Fred Bone
On 08 April 2020 at 8:40, John Ralls said: [...] > The > gold amount is Troy ounces, about 40 grams. That "about" is a bit of a stretch. One troy ounce is 31.1034768 g (one troy ounce is 20 pennyweights; one pennyweight is 24 grains; one grain is defined as 0.06479891 grams)

Re: [GNC] How to change "Unrealized Gain/Loss" to "Readlized Gain/Loss" in Balance Sheet ?

2020-04-10 Thread Fred Bone
On 10 April 2020 at 5:15, Long said: > Please help me. Is it possible? If yes, please give me an example . I told you that some days ago: enter a transaction to realise the gain/loss (maybe one per affected account). ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Auto-delete imbalance with no value in split

2020-04-10 Thread Fred Bone
On 09 April 2020 at 22:55, Håkon Fremstad said: > Hi > > Whenever I change the value of a split-transaction, I get an imbalance > with the difference. And after I fix the imbalance in the > split-transaction the imbalance stays there with no value. Is there a way > to make these empty imbalances

Re: [GNC] Would like to use, but ....

2020-04-15 Thread Fred Bone
On 15 April 2020 at 9:02, Derek Atkins said: > Hi Andrew, > > First, please remember to CC gnucash-user on your replies so that others > may benefit from the conversation and chime in. You can do this by using > the Reply-To-List or Reply-All functionality in your mailer. > > If you could

Re: [GNC] Help!

2020-04-09 Thread Fred Bone
On 09 April 2020 at 14:15, Evelyn Bleasdale said: > I am still using Yosemite on my macbookpro, and am very happy with GNU > cash 2.6.9 for our family accounts. Now I must upgrade to High Sierra, and > am worried about how that will affect my GNU cash. Will I need to upgrade > it as well? Any

Re: [GNC] What is Unrealized Losses/Gain in Balance Sheet Report ?

2020-04-08 Thread Fred Bone
On 08 April 2020 at 1:05, Long said: > Hello, > > First, i'm not an accounting, and trying to use GnuCash to manager my > finances. > > I'm managing multiple currency in GnuCash, and i created Bank account for > each currency i had. > > And everytime my currency rate changed, i changed it in

Re: [GNC] General Ledger

2020-03-29 Thread Fred Bone
On 29 March 2020 at 10:40, Adrian Yong said: > Hi Adrien, > > Below is the screenshot... I get a file type FILE. > > [image: image.png] Because you chose to give it a plain name with no ".csv" extension. > When I double click on the file to open it, Excel is not on the list: > > [image:

Re: [GNC] notify when new version is available?

2020-04-27 Thread Fred Bone
On 27 April 2020 at 16:07, Ed Love said: > For some reason, no. Is there any particular reason why there isn't an > option in GC itself? It's a very popular way of doing it. It is also, depending on individual tastes, a very unpopular way. ___

Re: [GNC] Reporting combinations of accounts

2020-04-30 Thread Fred Bone
On 29 April 2020 at 17:51, Ruaraidh said: > I'm in the UK where married couples are taxed separately and have to file > separately. I'm not a tax expert, but I've just googled it and find > confirmation on both government and accountants' web sites: husbands and > wives (the words used on the web

Re: [GNC] Reordering splits in a transaction

2020-05-16 Thread Fred Bone
On 15 May 2020 at 9:03, peterb said: > I have a recurring transaction with a very complicated split. At some > point, the splits in the recurring transaction seem to have organized > themselves in a confusing way - seemingly not related to the order in > which I entered them. > > Is there any

[GNC] Upgrading GnuCash

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Bone
Currently running 2.6.21 (without issues) and think I should probably upgrade to 4.whatever. I know I need to bridge via 3.something, but can I safely assume that 3.11 will do the necessary data tweaking, or should I start with an earlier 3.x? And is opening and closing my files sufficient, or do

Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Fred Bone
On 29 August 2020 at 11:40, Chris Green said: > I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted > funds issue. > > I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our PCC. What I > *thought* were restricted funds are actually 'designated' funds. I.e. we > (the PCC) have

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 209, Issue 49

2020-08-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 August 2020 at 10:25, nor said: > Hello,With "Magnifier" I failed to magnify the screen precisely. Normally > I use CTRL + & - to magnify view in steps of 10% for all apps. in case > the fonts are small. But with app GNU it seems not possible. I am on WIN > 10.However, A fonts

Re: [GNC] How to balance correctly a particular transaction which involves debt?

2020-09-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 September 2020 at 16:37, Daniel Fishman said: > Hello, > > Suppose that you go with your friend to a shop, and then a friend > remembers that he forgotten his credit card and asks you to pay > for his merchandise. He intends to return the money later. You pay > in the shop (for example,

Re: [GNC] Transaction report: selected date range

2020-05-24 Thread Fred Bone
On 24 May 2020 at 8:56, Rich Shepard said: > I'm missing something in my attempts to define a date range for a > transaction report on a single account. > > The account is displayed and has focus. I select Reports -> Account report > -> Options and do find where I can specify starting and ending

Re: [GNC] Request for help with GnuCash 4.1

2020-08-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 04 August 2020 at 20:43, David Jaggar said: > Hello to Whom this concerns: > > I'm not quite sure if I am sending this request to the correct place. > Anyway, I am wanting help with updating to the latest version 4.1 or even > 4.0 since the problem shows up there also. When I down load the

Re: [GNC] GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

2020-08-11 Thread Fred Bone
On 11 August 2020 at 20:14, elvis said: > If you want a fixed date burn a cd or use other ways of verifying the > files like md5sum > > > All of this fixed date stuff is just security theatre if you can access > the source and pretty much the same even if you can't. There seems to be a fair

Re: [GNC] GnuCash list

2020-07-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 07 July 2020 at 9:08, Adrien Monteleone said: [...] > also mentions ‘Gmane’ but I don’t know if > that is still active, or if its users simply manage not to have problems > so we don’t hear about them.) You could always try clicking on the link. You get a pretty clear message to the effect

Re: [GNC] Gnucash - user

2020-07-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 07 July 2020 at 8:00, Adrien Monteleone said: > I just added an explicit instruction in the Mailing List Membership > section of https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists directing readers > to https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo, click the desired list, and > fill out the

Re: [GNC] GnuCash list: gmane

2020-07-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 07 July 2020 at 12:09, David Carlson said: > Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100 Oooh, we used to *dream* of having 300 baud. We had to send our data one bit at a time using Morse code tapped out on an old drainpipe.

Re: [GNC] Gnucash - user

2020-07-07 Thread Fred Bone
On 07 July 2020 at 11:02, Adrien Monteleone said: > The wiki page has been revised with the following: [...] > 3. Send a ’Subscribe’ command directly to > gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org It would be more helpful still if it had "=subscribe" appended to the "mailto:; string in the href

Re: [GNC] Question marks instead of currency in reports

2020-06-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 17 June 2020 at 16:34, Gio Bacareza said: > Why am I getting question marks instead of currency in the reports? > > Gnucash Version: 3.7 > Preferences / Default Currency = PHP (Philippine Peso) Because the currency symbol isn't defined in the font you're using, is the usual cause.

Re: [GNC] Will Image Attachments go through the email list server?

2020-06-18 Thread Fred Bone
On 18 June 2020 at 15:56, Fran_3 said: > Just wondering if I can include an image file with a post? Plenty of people do. Whether you can might depend on your email client. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Question marks instead of currency in reports

2020-06-19 Thread Fred Bone
On 19 June 2020 at 18:29, Gio Bacareza said: > Thank you for the help Christopher. Yes there are bold fonts capable of > displaying Philippine Peso but the report still displays question marks. > See screenshot below > > [image: image.png] Your total line is very obviously not in Arial so the

Re: [GNC] Default View: Tip

2020-06-11 Thread Fred Bone
On 10 June 2020 at 23:05, David Carlson said: > Here is my suggestion. If someone wants to improve the syntax, go ahead. > > To change the register view to show the Notes field in each transaction > select 'View' in the menu bar and check 'Double Line'. How about: Every transaction has a

[GNC] Default View: Menu entry and tooltip

2020-06-11 Thread Fred Bone
On 11 June 2020 at 13:18, Adrien Monteleone said: [...] > Under Guide "§2.3.8 Menu Items”, info there suggests hovering a menu > entry will provide a description of that menu entry in the Statusbar but I > don’t see any thing happening in the Statusbar as I hover over each menu > item. (even with

Re: [GNC] Default View: Menu entry and tooltip

2020-06-12 Thread Fred Bone
On 11 June 2020 at 16:58, Adrien Monteleone said: > Thanks Fred, > > So you are viewing a register while seeing this? (presumably, since that > is the only way I’ve found to have that option appear in the View menu) Given that it applies only to the current register, that's what I would

Re: [GNC] Ordering Transactions on same date

2020-06-14 Thread Fred Bone
On 13 June 2020 at 16:02, Stan Brown said: > > On 2020-06-13 15:17, Robert Smits wrote: > > On October 16, 2017 08:18:49 am baneeishaque wrote: > >> Solved the problem in aneasier way... > > Well, don't leave us in suspense! What was your solution? Maf.King asked, back when the message was

Re: [GNC] Get Online Quotes

2020-07-16 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 July 2020 at 11:33, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton said: [...] > To get quotes for a UK fund, I switch on Get Online Quotes, select > Multiple sources, scroll down to the bottom of the list of sources, and > select "U.K. Funds ...". So far so good. Three mouse clicks and one > scroll-down is

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-26 Thread Fred Bone
On 25 November 2020 at 14:59, David Cousens said: > Adrien, Laurel > > I have just downloaded GnuCash 4.2 and installed it on my wife's Windows > 10 box and it appears to be working OK. I checked "C:/Program > Files(X86)/gnucash/bin" and there is no "libgncmod-app-utils.dll" in that > location.

Re: [GNC] Account report

2020-12-09 Thread Fred Bone
On 08 December 2020 at 21:39, David Long said: > Hi, how can I select just the last few months for an "Account Report". I > am getting the whole history of the account from the first ever > transaction? I can use the "Transaction Report", instead and select which > account and periods I want,

Re: [GNC] Rounding & formulas

2020-12-23 Thread Fred Bone
On 23 December 2020 at 0:25, Thomas Lenherr said: > Thank you all for your responses. > > For the record, this is for private bookkeeping purposes (mainly splitting > costs for different things with roommates), and so regulations generally > don't apply as accuracy to a cent is more than enough

Re: [GNC] What is the purpose of the row at the bottom of an "stock" type account?

2020-12-24 Thread Fred Bone
On 24 December 2020 at 10:47, mike823 said: > Data entry. The same as for any other type of account, when you choose "split" view. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Rounding & formulas

2020-12-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 December 2020 at 22:14, Peter West said: > There’s no rounding as such involved in the formulae. The timing will > only matter if total_amount changes between the two calculations, which I > assume it will not do. If x/2, when x is an integer (be it number of cents > or number of pennies or

Re: [GNC] Rounding & formulas

2020-12-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 December 2020 at 12:12, Peter West said: > I don’t understand why "total_amount-(total_amount/2)” doesn’t work. > I’m assuming that two formulae are used: total_amount/2 & > total_amount-(total_amount/2), as the OP specifies. > > If the amount is odd, the first should be (given consistent

Re: [GNC] Apparent Miscalculation

2020-11-16 Thread Fred Bone
On 14 November 2020 at 21:23, Eric Coates said: [...] > The full details for each share follows: > > Airbus > 114 shares @ €85.56   equals €9753.84 @ (€0.89662 = £1) thus value > =£8745.49 *NOT £11631.65* > > Deutsche Post > 80 shares @ €38.92   equals €3113.60 @ (€0.89662 = £1) thus value >

Re: [GNC] Wrong starting balance

2020-11-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 20 November 2020 at 22:09, David Carlson said: > As I started to suggest in my previous email, if a given split line > contains a 'Y' reconcile status, that implies that the transaction split > line passed a reconciliation process for that account on a certain date > recorded within the data

Re: [GNC] Security price retrieval [again]

2021-01-09 Thread Fred Bone
On 09 January 2021 at 16:54, Frank H. Ellenberger said: > Am 07.01.21 um 18:01 schrieb Graham: > > Sorry - didn't realise that the images hadn't gone through. > > When I try to update prices, more than half do not update, and it [...] > > I have run gnc-fq-update and I get:  Date::Manip is up to

Re: [GNC] Configuring Automatic Retrieval Quotes error

2021-01-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 January 2021 at 23:12, Denise Ufkes said: > Hello, > I am just starting to set up GnuCash and want to set it up to > automatically update mutual fund prices.  I followed the instructions in > the manual as show here, but got the following error.  I can see the file > it is looking for, but

Re: [GNC] Need Transaction Report on Checking to show only Debits

2021-05-11 Thread Fred Bone
On 11 May 2021 at 12:41, Fran_3 said: > How can I create a Transaction Report on the Checking AccountAnd show only > Debits?Or show only Credits? Thanks for any help. Start by selecting only the relevant txns, perhaps? e.g. Value has debits greater than 0.00

Re: [GNC] namespaces vs import prices

2021-03-22 Thread Fred Bone
On 22 March 2021 at 9:03, Jack Frillman said: > Yes there is a way of doing it in Version 4.4. I just did the same thing > so I could put all my securities from my past 401K into a namespace I > called STALE. I did that because I wasn't ever going to do anything with > them again and I wanted

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-06 Thread Fred Bone
On 05 February 2021 at 20:05, Adrien Monteleone said: > On 2/5/21 7:39 PM, David Carlson wrote> > > I want to start with "... will tell me on start up > > that it has created x number of scheduled txns. I can see the change in > > value in the register but not the actual txn." > > > > Where does

Re: [GNC] Assets vs. expenses vs. income entry

2021-02-22 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 February 2021 at 18:47, Jim DeLaHunt said: > > On 2021-02-21 18:30, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > …The summary:  Credits go next to the window … < > when facing computer screen>> > > > Wow, this is a great rule of thumb! > > The only problem is, the window is to my left as I sit in my

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