Re: [GNC] How to change size of register in Gnucash 3.4

2019-02-04 Thread Liz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:17:16 +1100 Liz wrote: > Debian Linux > Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) > > I had the registers set so that I could open 4 without overlapping on > my screen. > With Gnucash 3.4 they all got wider and now take up more screen space > than I desire. > > With the mouse pointer I

[GNC] How to change size of register in Gnucash 3.4

2019-02-04 Thread Liz
Debian Linux Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) I had the registers set so that I could open 4 without overlapping on my screen. With Gnucash 3.4 they all got wider and now take up more screen space than I desire. With the mouse pointer I can make wider still but I wish to make them narrower, and it

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher Lam
Feel free to experiment your transactions; I'd recommend doing a simplified transfer on a simple data file first and testing the output. Please test the portfolio and advanced portfolio reports because they may not handle these types of transfers, and file bugs on bugzilla if the reports produce

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread Liz
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:19:24 -0600 (CST) DGPickett via gnucash-user wrote: > It's be smart if, when I hit the reconcile button, it selected the > date of the 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c > or y. After all, one cannot hope to reconcile the future, and why > set the

Re: [GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

2019-02-04 Thread Liz
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 20:51:42 -0600 David Carlson wrote: > What version Gnucash? what os? > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:27 PM Bostjan Vilfan > wrote: > > > Hello, > > I haven't used gnucash for some time, and when I tried to call the > > program the splash screen appears, and the program

Re: [GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
What version Gnucash? what os? On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:27 PM Bostjan Vilfan wrote: > Hello, > I haven't used gnucash for some time, and when I tried to call the program > the splash screen appears, and the program immediately terminates. Can > someone help? > Regards, > bostjanv >

[GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

2019-02-04 Thread Bostjan Vilfan
Hello, I haven't used gnucash for some time, and when I tried to call the program the splash screen appears, and the program immediately terminates. Can someone help? Regards, bostjanv ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
If you are in the US and both funds are within the same custodial account the answer is trivial, just sell one and buy the other. It only matters when you withdraw cash. If you are somehow moving shares from one custodian to another, that is more complicated. If they are non-custodial accounts

[GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread Harry Foerster
Hello I'm a recent user of Gnucash coming over from the Quicken world. I would like to get some guidance on how to properly transfer a portion of a mutual fund total units in account X into another mutual fund account Y. The transferred units from account X are taken out on a FIFO basis and

Re: [GNC] Restricting expense report to single checking account

2019-02-04 Thread Steve Cohen
On 2/4/19 5:12 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: I think only the Transaction Report will offer this flexibility. Account/Accounts - Bank account Account/Filter Type - "include" Account/Filter By.. expense accounts. On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 05:35, Steve Cohen > wrote: I

[GNC] Fwd: Restricting expense report to single checking account

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher Lam
Sure you're welcome, but it's customary here to reply-all to list. -- Forwarded message - From: Steve Cohen Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 07:28 Subject: Re: [GNC] Restricting expense report to single checking account To: Christopher Lam On 2/4/19 5:12 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: > I

Re: [GNC] How to handle bounced check

2019-02-04 Thread Mike Alexander
> On Feb 4, 2019, at 4:32 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Back to the original question: I think gnucash will try its best to keep you > from adding a reverse payment to an already paid invoice. So what you did via > manual lot manipulation is probably the closest you can get to that outcome. >

Re: [GNC] Restricting expense report to single checking account

2019-02-04 Thread Christopher Lam
I think only the Transaction Report will offer this flexibility. Account/Accounts - Bank account Account/Filter Type - "include" Account/Filter By.. expense accounts. On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 05:35, Steve Cohen wrote: > I wish to make an expense report (pie chart, bar chart, not important >

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sorry, newest not oldest! -Original Message- From: Dale Alspach To: David G. Pickett Cc: geert.gnucash ; Gnucash Users Sent: Mon, Feb 4, 2019 3:37 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile > 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c or y.The oldest

[GNC] Restricting expense report to single checking account

2019-02-04 Thread Steve Cohen
I wish to make an expense report (pie chart, bar chart, not important which) to track spending over the past two years, but restrict the content to expenses paid out of a single checking account. I make selections that seem appropriate to this task in the dialog, but I can see through the

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:22 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > The statement date is also in the past, so the default date is pretty > much never right. In a busy account, my date would match. While the > statement date might be later than the last

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread Dale Alspach
> 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c or y. The oldest transaction would presumably be the first transaction in the account so I assume you mean the most recent transaction. If someone does not frequently mark transactions c or y, the date you are advocating could be as early

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
The statement date is also in the past, so the default date is pretty much never right.  In a busy account, my date would match.  While the statement date might be later than the last included transaction, there is no value in the later date, since no transactions exist in the intervening time

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 4 februari 2019 18:19:24 CET schreef DGPickett via gnucash-user: > It's be smart if, when I hit the reconcile button, it selected the date of > the 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c or y. After > all, one cannot hope to reconcile the future, and why set the

[GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread DGPickett via gnucash-user
It's be smart if, when I hit the reconcile button, it selected the date of the 1) oldest transaction 2) not in the future 3) n set to c or y. After all, one cannot hope to reconcile the future, and why set the reconcile date any later than the last included transaction? -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Help with Error While Setting Up Online Price Quotes

2019-02-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 3, 2019, at 11:42 AM, James Lobash wrote: > > Help. I was attempting to load the GnuCash Online Price retriever but > received the following error message during the "Run gnc-fq-helper" program: > ___ > Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Date::Manip

Re: [GNC] Number Rounding

2019-02-04 Thread thecat131
hmmm - I closed gnuCash and reopened it Seems the problem has been fixed Sorry to trouble you all! Cheers thecat131 - GNUCash V2.4.6 Mac OS X 10.5.8 -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Number Rounding

2019-02-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
So, you're saying that your transaction reads $5.26 in all its splits, but the reconcile window is showing it as $5.30?  Are you sure you're looking at the same transaction, and not two similar transactions with different amounts? Is there something else about this transaction that is odd? 

Re: [GNC] Stock account type "child account" under Equity account type "parent account".

2019-02-04 Thread David Cousens
Jason, "trades in its own stock"It is usually illegal for a company to hold its own shares as assets of the company (except as Treasury stock which does not have the rights of a shareholder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_stock). This is the case in Australian and UK law

Re: [GNC] Question about display of reports

2019-02-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Mark,  Your problem stems from the fact that your accounts are in (Canadian?) dollars, while your locale may be in pounds.  I am not versed in multi-currency situations. Maybe someone else can advise you on how to clear that up.  David On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 13:54, Mark Stockwell wrote:

[GNC] Number Rounding

2019-02-04 Thread thecat131
GnuCash V3.4 Mac OS V10.12.6 Currency: Australian Dollars I tried to reconcile an account but found: the transaction has been keyed in as $5.26 the reconciliation window shows $5.30 I need the reconciliation window to show the data that was keyed in, not round the data. I went to Preferences >

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

2019-02-04 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 06:53, Jamestk wrote: > Yup, I can see the button - next time i will try the menu selection for > postpone, it's no biggie as I rarely use it, only when getting tired and > start making mistakes. > It is easy to test if it is still working, even if it is not time for a

Re: [GNC] Stock account type "child account" under Equity account type "parent account".

2019-02-04 Thread Liz
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 20:35:22 -0600 (CST) jason wrote: > Test > > It seems my post did not deliver. > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > ___ gnucash-user mailing > list gnucash-user@gnucash.org >

Re: [GNC] How to handle bounced check

2019-02-04 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 2 februari 2019 09:37:02 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: > On 02/02/2019 04:24, Mike Alexander wrote: > > A few weeks ago I received a check in payment for an invoice I had sent to > > a customer. I recorded the payment and deposited the check. A couple of > > weeks later I got

Re: [GNC] Question about display of reports

2019-02-04 Thread Mark Stockwell via gnucash-user
Hi David It appears to be in all reports that I run. Attached is an example of a balance sheet report where there are lots of zero balances showing on the right hand side that do not appear to represent anything and none of the totals add up to what I am expecting to see? Thanks Mark > On

[GNC] Help with Error While Setting Up Online Price Quotes

2019-02-04 Thread James Lobash
Help. I was attempting to load the GnuCash Online Price retriever but received the following error message during the "Run gnc-fq-helper" program: ___ Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Date::Manip module) (@INC contains: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib) at