Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-17 Thread Fred Bone
On 16 August 2022 at 17:11, Robert Simmons said: > > running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back > through gzip > > As a connoisseur of bad ideas for adding data to GnuCash myself, I have to > point out that one should use a programming language that has a library > wit

Re: [GNC] Saving a New Book doesn't allow format selection

2022-08-17 Thread Phyllis Bruce
Thanks, John. I have heard all those terms many times. Two sets of books and cooking the books describe separate if not unique files to me. You put it in better words - a book is a single GnuCash file and it’s accounts. Therefore, if you have a GnuCash file saved as xml but you want it in an

Re: [GNC] Saving a New Book doesn't allow format selection

2022-08-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, August 17, 2022 8:08 am, Phyllis Bruce wrote: > Thanks, John. I have heard all those terms many times. Two sets of books > and cooking the books describe separate if not unique files to me. You > put it in better words - a book is a single GnuCash file and it’s > accounts. Therefor

Re: [GNC] Saving a New Book doesn't allow format selection

2022-08-17 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Phyllis, I was referring to a particular corner case, in which a user is creating a new file but wants to store it in a format other than the default xml. The Save dialog doesn't provide the user with that option. The workaround is to save the file (as xml) and then perform a Save As in the pr

Re: [GNC] Confusing and inconsistent headers in transaction entry and report forms

2022-08-17 Thread Peter S. Shenkin
Thank you. That is helpful! -P. On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:47 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Peter, > > I think the problem stems from your choice of report options. > > Namely, by default, 'Account Name' under the Display tab is *not* > selected, while the 'othe

Re: [GNC] Change GnuCash scrollbar color in CSS?

2022-08-17 Thread Glenn Fowler
Thanks Adrien for the tip. I dug through some themes and figured it out. Just leaving this here for someone in the future: /* Scollbar */ scrollbar slider { /* Size of the scrollbar */ min-width: 22px; min-height: 22px; border-radius: 0px; /* Padding around the slider */ border: 7px s

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-17 Thread john
> On Aug 16, 2022, at 8:18 PM, list+gnuc...@jdlh.com wrote: > > On 2022-08-16 19:54, john wrote: > >> OTOH I'm pretty sure that gnc_commodity is fully exposed to the Python >> bindings so you should >> be able to write a python script using them to do the same thing without >> voiding your wa