Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-07 Thread Christopher Lam
Thanks Adrien. I've realised that unless the multicolumn report is merged into mainstream, it will never gain enough exposure for bug reports. So perhaps it'll be better to merge for 3.6 into an 'experimental' submenu within reports. C On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:24, Adrien Monteleone <

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Stephen, Comparative-period P is not yet implemented in GnuCash. (but as Chris Lamm noted, he has a testing version of the report that *might* fit your needs - if you can try it, please do so) You *can* run a multi-column report with each period in its own column, but it will get messy with

Re: [GNC] gtk-3.0 is empty

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sachin, Since you’re using Windows I don’t think you have GTKInspector at your disposal. (I’m certainly free to be corrected on this point, but previous threads seem to indicate it isn’t available, at least currently) I’m really tied up at the moment, but if someone else has the time to fire

Re: [GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be vastly off base here, but, I think that message about “selecting...instead” is because the package build info is specifying a generic name but the actual packages have specific version names as part of the file name. There is a way to fix this. (still specify the version but the

Re: [GNC] Liabilities

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can also click the Account Name column repeatedly to get different sort orders. The order I have from that process is: Assets Expenses Equity Liabilities Income Trading (optional) Regards, Adrien > On May 4, 2019, at 2:57 PM, Maf. King wrote: > > On Saturday, 4 May 2019 20:20:40 BST

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 6:48 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: What do you mean archived? It was GnuCash's wording. And I don't know what it means. I tought it meant I was done editing for the day. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
What do you mean archived? -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On May 7, 2019 9:45:56 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: On 5/7/19 5:34 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: So it closed that tab (which is NOT closing the file). It closed and archived

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 5:34 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: So it closed that tab (which is NOT closing the file). It closed and archived ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, May 7, 2019 7:38 pm, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: >On 5/7/19 5:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Which "close" did you accidentally hit, and where did you "hit" it? That attachment answered the "which", but not the "where". What Page/Tab were you on when you clicked it? As

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread David Carlson
Well, that is why so many of us have flat foreheads 洛. We have done it too. We have learned to go back to the CoA or another account that we recall has a recent transfer and re-open the register window from there. David Carlson On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 6:43 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user <

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 3:50 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 11:45, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: On 5/7/19 3:17 AM, Colin Law wrote: What popup tooltip do you see if you hover over the Close button that you posted an image of? Colin I am too chicken to do it again. I am not asking

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 5:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Which "close" did you accidentally hit, and where did you "hit" it? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Building from source

2019-05-07 Thread Robin Chattopadhyay
Never mind... Sorry, I should have tried harder to find a solution. I had a problem with the guile installation. Once I fixed that, re-compiled and re-installed, the messages went away. Thanks, Robin On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:26 PM Robin Chattopadhyay wrote: > Hi- > > I am attempting to

Re: [GNC] Quicken import and duplicate records

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It’s a wiki. Create an account and make the edits. Regards, Adrien > On May 7, 2019, at 12:04 PM, Cricket Onebit > wrote: > > Can someone edit that page in the wiki? It would help new users a lot. > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 17:00, David Carlson > wrote: >

[GNC] Building from source

2019-05-07 Thread Robin Chattopadhyay
Hi- I am attempting to build from source on a new machine (a backup machine) and I keep running into this when I run gnucash from terminal: ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /usr/local/lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/fin.go failed: ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object

Re: [GNC] Changing account tree on large database

2019-05-07 Thread Cricket Onebit
I used Sqlite and Python for a project a few years ago. SQLite was great, including a few third-party viewers. The Python binding was a bit much to comfortably wrap my brain around as fast as I wanted to. I was learning Python, SQL, and re-learning HTML forms and static-state programming, all at

Re: [GNC] Changing account tree on large database

2019-05-07 Thread Cricket Onebit
I wish I'd thought of a separate account for what we owe her / she owes us earlier, sigh, and one for our son to keep things even. I didn't record things consistently because no method felt "right", and some is on a separate spreadsheet. The current plan is print out anything that affects her and

Re: [GNC] Quicken import and duplicate records

2019-05-07 Thread Cricket Onebit
Can someone edit that page in the wiki? It would help new users a lot. On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 17:00, David Carlson wrote: > The wiki that David Cousins pointed you to does not mention the fact that > GnuCash can only find duplicates to transactions that already exist in the > data. Thus to

Re: [GNC] Changing account tree on large database

2019-05-07 Thread Cricket Onebit
Very happy about the reports and tags. Yes, I always take backups (and backups of backups). Dad used to design hardware for telephone switching systems that absolutely had to work, and Mom was an inaugural member of the 8-hours-lost club with 5-1/4 floppies. The first computer I bought for myself

Re: [GNC] Changing account tree on large database

2019-05-07 Thread Cricket Onebit
Yep, that's my plan. Quicken has a bulk-edit feature that I'll make good use of. When I get around to it. Too many emergency late nights last week to tackle something I need to be awake for. For now, I've decided to do the urgent report in Quicken, then worry about the conversion. I'd hoped to do

Re: [GNC] Create entry for vendor

2019-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
So your line item in the bill would be an Inventory account of type asset. (Inventory is generally not an expense until you sell it, then you expense a special account called ‘Cost of Goods Sold’) The result will debit (increase) the Inventory asset and credit (increase) your Accounts Payable

Re: [GNC] Question about offset entery for inventory

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Kebcoinc writes: > I just cannot remember. > When I am entering a transaction for one of my vendors, > I ordered some inventory, > I want to increase the liability for this vendor > What would I decrease to balance? Your inventory asset account. > I'm actually increasing my inventory and

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user writes: > I restore yesterday's file and still get today's booboo You restored the XXX.gnucash file, which is just your data. > Why won't it let me restore from backup? Because you didn't restore the METADATA file, which contains your open tabs. This would be

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user writes: > Hi All, > > If you accidentally hit "Close", is there a way to undo it other > than from backup (which is what I did)? Which "close" did you accidentally hit, and where did you "hit" it? There are several options that come to mind: 1) The "Close

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 11:45, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 5/7/19 3:17 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > What popup tooltip do you see if you hover over the Close button that > > you posted an image of? > > > > Colin > > I am too chicken to do it again. I am not asking you to click it, just

Re: [GNC] Reporting Tools

2019-05-07 Thread Sachin Danave
Sorry for the late reply Have not been accessing my emails. For now, I will keep my focus on the non-technical part :) and stick to the Excel option ... Thanks for the help Sachin On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:25 AM Klaus Dahlke wrote: > Alternative is to use a database (mysql, postgres, SQLite)

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 3:02 AM, Liz wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:37:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Liz Hi Liz, I think there is some misunderstanding. I pressed the "Close" button, as in "close and archive the account". I did not close the "Tab". I know how to get the tabs back.

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 3:17 AM, Colin Law wrote: What popup tooltip do you see if you hover over the Close button that you posted an image of? Colin I am too chicken to do it again. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On Tue, May 7, 2019, 3:09 AM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> wrote: On 5/7/19 12:08 AM, Colin Law wrote: > What exactly did you do when you tried to restore it from backup? > Without knowing what backup s/w or strategy you use we are in the

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 2:58 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:09, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: I got back the same closed account. If you had deleted the original file and replaced it with the new one there is no way that it could have opened the old one (as it no longer existed). In

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 3:06 AM, Liz wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:37:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi Liz, I think there is some misunderstanding. I pressed the "Close" button, as in "close and archive the account". I did not close the "Tab". I know how to get the tabs back.

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 3:02 AM, Colin Law wrote: What do you see if you click View > Filter By, both Account Type and Other tabs therein. Also show us the whole window please for the Accounts tab Colin I restored from backup. It currently says "Show all" ___

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
What popup tooltip do you see if you hover over the Close button that you posted an image of? Colin On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 10:49, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 5/7/19 2:37 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > I did not close the "Tab". > > The "Tab" did not close. It was

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Liz
On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:37:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: >Hi Liz, >I think there is some misunderstanding. I pressed the "Close" > button, as in "close and archive the account". I did not close the > "Tab". I know how to get the tabs back. >-T You need to think back

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
What do you see if you click View > Filter By, both Account Type and Other tabs therein. Also show us the whole window please for the Accounts tab Colin On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 10:49, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 5/7/19 2:37 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > I did not

[GNC] Create entry for vendor

2019-05-07 Thread Kebcoinc
I just cannot remember I need to create a transaction for one of my vendors I know I need to increase the liability for this vendor but what would I decrease to balance? I am actually increasing my inventory and increasing the liability Thanks -- Sent from:

[GNC] Question about offset entery for inventory

2019-05-07 Thread Kebcoinc
I just cannot remember. When I am entering a transaction for one of my vendors, I ordered some inventory, I want to increase the liability for this vendor What would I decrease to balance? I'm actually increasing my inventory and increasing my liability Thanks -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Liz
On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:37:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > Liz > >Hi Liz, >I think there is some misunderstanding. I pressed the "Close" > button, as in "close and archive the account". I did not close the > "Tab". I know how to get the tabs back. >-T I did remark

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread David Carlson
ToddAndMargo, GnuCash keeps information about some details such as which account windows were left open and their size and locations on the screen when you closed your data file in a different folder on your computer. This information is called your preferences and it is a good idea to

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:09, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > I got back the same closed account. If you had deleted the original file and replaced it with the new one there is no way that it could have opened the old one (as it no longer existed). In fact do you actually mean that it

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 2:37 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: I did not close the "Tab". The "Tab" did not close. It was still there. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/6/19 11:22 PM, Liz wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2019 19:35:24 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user [1] wrote: Hi All, If you accidentally hit "Close", is there a way to undo it other than from backup (which is what I did)? Many thanks, -T Start here

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 12:08 AM, Colin Law wrote: What exactly did you do when you tried to restore it from backup? Without knowing what backup s/w or strategy you use we are in the dark on what you actually did. What backup means is that I have copies of the data file squirrels away wher Gnu Cash can't

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 12:11 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 08:06, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user [1] wrote: GnuCash 2.3 and later View -> New Accounts Page Q speakth with forked tongue. Translation. "You can't. You have to start over. HAHAHAHAH." Panic? What me

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 08:06, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: >GnuCash 2.3 and later > View -> New Accounts Page > > Q speakth with forked tongue. Translation. "You can't. You > have to start over. HAHAHAHAH." > > Panic? What me panic? Good think I am a backup

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Law
What exactly did you do when you tried to restore it from backup? Without knowing what backup s/w or strategy you use we are in the dark on what you actually did. Colin On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 03:44, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > I restore yesterday's file and still get today's booboo

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/6/19 11:22 PM, Liz wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2019 19:35:24 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi All, If you accidentally hit "Close", is there a way to undo it other than from backup (which is what I did)? Many thanks, -T Start here

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-07 Thread Liz
On Mon, 6 May 2019 19:35:24 -0700 ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi All, > > If you accidentally hit "Close", is there a way to undo it other > than from backup (which is what I did)? > > Many thanks, > -T Start here