Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow
Trying again with attachment at the very end. GC retains the column width for each invoice over the life of that invoice. The issue is that new invoices don't inherit any of this - they all start with a narrow date field. See at the bottom (I hope). I can't tell if the date of the bottom line is 01.12.2019 or 11.12 or 21.12, etc. without clicking on the calendar selector. So I widen the Date field, and then shrink some other field to remove the created horizontal scrollbar. For every invoice I create. Thanks, - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 12 Dec 2019, at 05:17, John Ralls wrote: > > Axel, > > Also make sure they're on the end of the email after all text including > signatures. The list server eats inline attachments. > > GnuCash is supposed to remember things like column widths so that you need > set them only once. Is that not working for the Invoice date column--or > perhaps any invoice columns? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Dec 11, 2019, at 3:52 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger >> wrote: >> >> Hi Axel >> >> Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Axel Essbaum : >>> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.6. Pictures say it all (hope this list allows >>> attachments!) >> : >> There was no attachment, neither in the mail nor on the server: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-December/088216.html >> >> That might be caused by sending mails in HTML format. In text format, >> attachments should go through. >> >> Regards >> Frank >> ___ >> 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. > ___ 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.
[GNC] Budget Questions and Observations
Does anyone use the Budget features in GnuCash? I have been giving it a try and am finding some aspects quite puzzling. I have never been trained in budgets so maybe I need to read up on some particular methodology to make better sense of it. Maybe someone can weigh in with some background. A few weeks ago I asked about the lack of account codes in budgets and budget reports and got no response. I wasn't surprised as I am sure very few folks use account codes in GnuCash. I did open bug #797489. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797489 My greatest astonishment with Budgets has been that all the INCOME numbers on the budget show as NEGATIVE. Is this by design? I have concluded this must be a bug, but maybe I'm doing something wrong, so I thought I would ask here before reporting it. As a result of the negative income figures, to project budgeted income I have to enter income figures into the budget as negatives. Regardless the budgeted and actuals (by default) "normally" get displayed RED. (!) Then when I'm looking at the numbers, I have to tell myself that when looking at incomes, negative (red) incomes and differences are "good" and positive (black) income difference numbers are "bad." Is that right? I'm never certain. But I'm easily confused. Well, needless to say budgeted income numbers are darned hard to read. I keep wanting a way to pair up particular income and expense accounts in a budget so they offset each other. I realize this may be beyond the scope of the budget feature, but that one thing would it a lot easier to track encumbered or designated funds. (The budget I'm working with is for a church.) While I'm wishing, maybe budget and actual income and expense amounts could be grouped and added or subtracted usefully using some additional factor, such as account codes or search strings. When entering budget amounts it would sometimes be useful to be able to enter one annual amount OR separate monthly budget amounts. But even with the existing design, when entering budget figures over multiple months it would be great if GnuCash could handle the math rather than having to divide by 12 on a calculator. At the very least it could parse math expressions like it does in the registers. I opened bug #727488 for this one. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797488 GnuCash contains several specialized Budget reports... but I suspect most haven't been fully implemented or tested. (I haven't opened any bugs for the following.) The "Budget Report" works pretty well, but if you turn on all the columns and try to print it, you lose everything off the right side. (In other words, the report paginates properly vertically, but not horizontally.) Fortunately the Budget Report exports quite easily, so I can turn on as many columns I want and export the report and import it into a spreadsheet. With reformatting (like changing fonts and freezing column and row headings), a spreadsheet is a great way to view the budget numbers. Unfortunately copying and pasting into a spreadsheet from this report doesn't work reliably. You have to use the export feature. The Budget Chart report works, after a fashion. But its two chart options are limited and inflexible. I suspect exporting the Budget Report to a spreadsheet would be a better basis for generating charts. I am not certain I understand the purpose of the "Budget Income Statement" or "Budget Profit & Loss" They seem to show only budgeted amounts, not actuals. Are they intended to "test" a proposed budget for sanity? My negative budget amounts to workaround the negative income numbers (noted above) are not compatible with these reports because they work just the same as GnuCash's regular reports elsewhere. The "Budget Balance Sheet" and "Budget Flow" reports ... I do not understand how these reports could ever be used. What is the effective date of the Balance Sheet? It's not labeled, nor is it adjustable (unless I missed something). The flow report has no label to show the selected budget period, and no labels over the columns, so even if it contains some useful data, it's inscrutable. Furthermore, the flow report provides only a very limited period display option -- just one period at a time, no multiple period options. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow
Axel, Also make sure they're on the end of the email after all text including signatures. The list server eats inline attachments. GnuCash is supposed to remember things like column widths so that you need set them only once. Is that not working for the Invoice date column--or perhaps any invoice columns? Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 11, 2019, at 3:52 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi Axel > > Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Axel Essbaum : >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.6. Pictures say it all (hope this list allows >> attachments!) > : > There was no attachment, neither in the mail nor on the server: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-December/088216.html > > That might be caused by sending mails in HTML format. In text format, > attachments should go through. > > Regards > Frank > ___ > 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow
Hi Axel Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Axel Essbaum : > > > Hi All, > > MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.6. Pictures say it all (hope this list allows > attachments!) : There was no attachment, neither in the mail nor on the server: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-December/088216.html That might be caused by sending mails in HTML format. In text format, attachments should go through. Regards Frank ___ 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.
