"IIUC" means "if I understand correctly". No, Register2 is an attempt to rewrite of the register code to use GtkTreeView[1]. It didn't work out but its remains, er, remain. But I see that I'm wrong about that anyway, Expense and Rebate are the informal labels on the debit and credit columns for expense accounts on the regular register too.
The screenshot is perfect. I'll guess that you've managed to change the account named "Expenses' from type Bank to Expense. Select Edit>Edit Account... from the menu and in the lower left of the dialog box that pops up see if you can select Bank, then click OK. That should put your column headings back. While you're at it I suggest that you change the account name (first line in the dialog box) to something more descriptive of a checking account, maybe "Business Checking" or "Bank Name Checking". Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 22, 2021, at 3:48 PM, Jay Bouxsein <dianan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear John > > At the outset I would like to sincerely thank you and the other members who > have weighed in on my problem. I must admit that I am confused because of my > lack of technical understanding of the matters you guys have been discussing. > Firstly what does IICU mean? Is "Register 2 a technical term of art? > Secondly I illustrated the problem with transaction reports because they were > the easiest things I could attach. I am not so good at screenshots, links and > the like. Windows as an operating system has expanded so much that I really > have not been able to keep up with it. > > I think that I have attached a screenshot of the register which I have been > dealing with. What I really want, which is what you suggested, is our > checking account. I don't want to change the view, I want to open our > checking account in the standard Account Register view we have always had in > the past so we can add our new data. I just can't figure out how to do that. > I hope that you can forgive me. > > Kindest regards, > > Jay Bouxsein > > PS If you would like to speak with me to make life easier at your end, let > me know off list and I will be happy to provide you with my telephone number. > I live in the Chicago Metro area and am thus in the central daylight time > zone. > > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 11:34 AM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Apr 21, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Jay Bouxsein <dianan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have been using GNUCASH for several years to basically track income and > > expenses for rental properties my wife and I own. I do not use it for any > > other purposes, I enter all of our expenses and income and then produce a P > > $ L report and send that to our accountant who keeps our historical books > > and prepares our tax returns. Obviously I could use a spreadsheet as my > > accountant suggested, but I really like your aids in completing the entry > > process, the plus and minus feature, and typing just the first few > > characters and so forth. > > > > In the past, we have done all of the data entry in March of the next > > year and it goes fast because we do not have a lot of units (less than 10 ) > > and limited suppliers (less than 30). My procedure is to call up the > > program and it opens to a register automatically, displaying all of our > > transactions from the previous year and all I need to do is update the date > > of the first transaction which by default is the current date. For > > example, the date displayed was April 21, 2021 and our first transaction > > was for January 2, 2020. All was going well until we got to March of 2020 > > when I could not find an expense account and tried to add a new expense > > account and all hell broke loose. I could not get back to the account > > register data entry screen we always used. Eventually I figured out that > > the account that I thought was missing actually was not and what I had done > > was to create a nearly duplicate account so I deleted the account that I > > had just created and then I was able to get a screen that looked just like > > the one we always had, but we noticed some differences. > > > > On our old register screen we used to have a column for deposits to our > > checking account and checks written out of that account. Now our screen > > shows "Expense" in the column which used to have "Deposit" and "rebate" has > > been substituted for the check amount. That does not seem right to me. I > > am 72 years old and actually was pretty good with the software which was > > available back in the 70's, 80's & 90's but not so much any more. I have a > > feeling that my problem should be a simple one to fix, but my weakness in > > dealing with accounting software is holding me back. I should add that I > > do have a hard copy of a "transction report, Income statement and P&L which > > I have attached to this email in the hope it will give you enough > > information to understand my missive. > > > > I thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. > > > > IIUC the difference is in the column headings in a register view. If that's > the case you're looking at an Expense (not Bank, which is what a checking > account should be) account in Register2 view. That's hard to do: You have to > start GnuCash with the --extra command-line option and open registers from > the Extensions>Reg2>Open Account menu item. > > But you chose to illustrate the problem with transaction reports from 2018 > and 2019 instead of a screen shot so I wonder if you really mean something > else. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > <Screenshot (1).png> _______________________________________________ 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/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
