Re: [GNC] How do I invoice a customer which he pays with billable services by him?

2024-08-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yep, credit notes are the way to go. If you want to somehow tie them together, there may be a way to use a clearing account as some sort of intermediary, which could be either an asset or liability and/or a sub-account of AR/AP. GnuCash does not in any way link AR with AP tracking, thus even

Re: [GNC] Checks outstanding...VERY outstanding!

2024-08-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is no time limit on reconciliation. What you are describing is a match limit on importing. Those are two separate functions entirely. If you open an account, and click the Reconcile button, it will show all unreconciled transactions since the beginning of your book. I just tested this w

Re: [GNC] Using custom reports in gnucash

2024-08-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Try not using a chatbot to write code? First, did you go through the debugging section of that wiki page? Is there nothing in those steps to provide hints of what is wrong? (at the very least, the Tracefile should contain complaints about the report not loading) After those steps are exhaust

Re: [GNC] how to total up all "stock transactions" in a year

2024-08-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What changes in stock values do you see in those accounts that isn't part of a buy/sell transaction? Regards, Adrien On 8/21/24 1:06 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: That I do, however that column seems to hold also changes in the value of the assets therein (I believe?), whilst I only need the actu

Re: [GNC] Printable invoice tab/screen does not display the invoice to be printed

2024-08-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Correct. That was a command to *launch* GnuCash in a way that you disable the compositing mode as it has a bug. Thus, your reports will be visible. Since that works, you can set the environment variable as described by Charlie so you don't have to use that special command each time. Regards,

Re: [GNC] Printable invoice tab/screen does not display the invoice to be printed

2024-08-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hmm...I can't duplicate this. (on MacOS) With the blank report up, click the Options button on the toolbar and then go to the General tab. In the Invoice Number field, is there one selected, or is it blank? What happens if you click the Select button for that field and choose that invoice? (

Re: [GNC] Missing Digests?

2024-08-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I get all messages, not digests, but I have noticed an odd delay in delivery over the last week. I first caught it when some folks were quoting in a reply from a message I didn't get. Then a few days later. It shows up as new. Then just yesterday, I saw a message come through as new with a date

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If Auto Updates are enabled, that could be why your system rebooted itself. MacOS gets security updates every 2 months and will reboot to fully install them. The last few came out in March, May and July. Regards, Adrien On 8/5/24 11:41 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: Thanks, John, I’ve tried and f

Re: [GNC] Bulk setup of accounts?

2024-08-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Bob, you did it backwards. (the Help and Guide are clear on this from my recollection) The recommended workflow is to import in small increments (perhaps monthly) adjusting account assignments and train the matching editor as you go. Reconcile after each small import. This process teaches t

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 256, Issue 48

2024-07-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, that's what a placeholder is, an account with restricted posting. There is no combination of placeholder *with* transactions, though marking an account as a placeholder does not empty it of existing transactions. Those have to be reassigned manually. (so it is possibly to have a placeholder

Re: [GNC] Puppy linux problem with notes/memo field on import and invoices due reminder l.

2024-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
FossaPup is based on Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS. I don't think this ubuntu-based series was continued, at least not officially. The newer release is based on Debian Bookworm, but Fossapup did get an updated release iso in March 2023. Even modern Pups run in RAM. That's part of how they work.

Re: [GNC] Check & Repair

2024-07-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If I'm not mistaken, when you upgrade, GnuCash will automatically make necessary adjustments to your file when things change internally from version to version. (for example, one version long ago, changed how time stamps were internally recorded, but nothing changed visibly to the user) Sometim

Re: [GNC] [Possible phishing attempt] Re: [devel question] instanceCount in schedxaction

2024-07-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, but I'm subscribed to all three. I saw it on all three. But I only see this thread here on -user, and not on -devel as it appears in the archive. Regards, Adrien On 7/20/24 11:14 PM, Kevin Buckley via gnucash-user wrote: That "Apple Silicon" thread was sent to all three announce devel u

Re: [GNC] Sales items, Service items, Inventory items

2024-07-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What you are asking for is not just inventory management, but point of sale tied to it. GnuCash doesn't have either of those. You would need to use proper outside software for those functions. You should then be able to export the accounting data from that system into GnuCash for bookkeeping

Re: [GNC] [devel question] instanceCount in schedxaction

2024-07-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Strange, while it is certainly on the archive, I don't see it either. (using Gmane via Thunderbird) I did see the thread about Apple Silicon though. I wonder if there was some sort of propagation hiccup. Regards, Adrien On 7/17/24 7:38 PM, John Ralls wrote: Your email to gnucash-devel went t

Re: [GNC] 1. Re: Request for help! (Patrick James)

2024-07-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not clear from that comment if you did so, but it's also a bad idea to try to import everything in one go. While it seems like it would take more time, breaking the import into chunks (some would recommend monthly, reconciling after each one) allows you to train the import matcher, which in sh

Re: [GNC] Same currency pair, two places, same date

2024-07-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not quite. 1/4148 = .000241080038573 but 1/.000239 = 4184.100418410041841 (which appears to be a repeating number) Possibly, there are two transactions that day with one having transposed digits (4148 vs. 4184) in the transfer amount that was entered directly rather than looked up online.

Re: [GNC] Crashing release 5.6 in Windows 10

2024-07-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Good to know it is resolved as of 5.8. As for Chrome, did you use the direct links provided in the release announcement? (it seems those are also provided on gnucash.org) Perhaps Incognito Mode is blocking something on SourceForge or GitHub that prevents getting to the download link, but I wo

Re: [GNC] Crashing release 5.6 in Windows 10

2024-07-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I normally keep my tabs on the left, but moved them back to the top and tested. I can re-arrange tabs with the mouse with ease and no crashing. I can't say if it would have crashed for me on 5.6, as I likely didn't try to re-arrange tabs while using it. I also can't say if it was a known and

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 256, Issue 20

2024-07-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You're welcome, but I'm not following how you end up with 'unbalanced amounts' or what it is you are referring to in that regard. The balancing of your accounts is independent, and forced upon every entry by GnuCash. (GnuCash won't let your books be 'unbalanced', though it will happily let you

Re: [GNC] accumulate split with import Invoices CSV doesn't work

2024-07-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Glad that helped. Please remember to either copy the list on all replies, or just reply to the list address to make sure others benefit from the full conversation. (and in this case, can see what resolved the issue) Regards, Adrien On 7/8/24 2:52 PM, GNUCash wrote: Thanks Adrien, That sett

Re: [GNC] accumulate split with import Invoices CSV doesn't work

2024-07-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Verify that Preferences > Business > General > 'Accumulate splits on post' is checked. While you are indicating to do so in the import, the posting code might be reading the preference and overriding your column. If the devs intended that column to work the otherway and override the preferen

Re: [GNC] Bogus email?

2024-07-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 7/7/24 9:30 AM, Frederick Bambrough wrote: Why? This is the weirdest mail list I've ever subscribed to (the list, not the contributers :-) ). We're asked to CC to the list whereas on every other list I've used the principal is to ONLY post to the list. I would suspect that's the shortest, ea

Re: [GNC] Consolidated billing of two credit cards

2024-07-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm in the camp that would just use a single split transaction payment and leave the accounts as-is, if not for the very least, that the bank still treats them as separate accounts. They can change how they present the statement on a whim. (as they have clearly already done once) I always atte

Re: [GNC] More than 4 files

2024-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
And I see it is in the Wiki FAQ. Regards, Adrien On 7/7/24 9:57 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Found it surprisingly fast: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094869.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] More than 4 files

2024-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Found it surprisingly fast: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094869.html (and not as old of a thread as I thought, or maybe there were others) Regards, Adrien On 7/7/24 9:54 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I could be mistaken, but I thought this was a hidden

Re: [GNC] More than 4 files

2024-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be mistaken, but I thought this was a hidden preference, at least on MacOS that could be edited via a plist file. I'm not sure if that situation still exists or if this can be edited on other platforms. (or where that file might be) I seem to recall either a list thread or bug on the to

Re: [GNC] Correcting an over payment on an invoice

2024-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The 'correct' accounting way is to never edit an existing transaction, but instead, issue a 'correcting transaction'. This could be for the difference, or it could be first, a reversing transaction, and then the correct transaction. Which is used depends on various factors beyond the scope of t

Re: [GNC] Scroll Bar and QIF Import OSX

2024-07-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That's the horizontal scroll bar. The vertical (what I'm guessing the OP is referring to, though it wasn't specified) should always be visible. Even in a register with only one transaction, I can see it, though the indicator takes up the entire height as there is nothing to scroll. If the vert

Re: [GNC] GC crashing after upgrade

2024-07-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Or install an older version in a virtual machine. Regards, Adrien On 7/2/24 6:31 PM, Ernie Wakamatsu wrote: Thanks again for your help. It sounds like my best option to get around this crash and inability to commit QIF import changes is to go back a couple of versions and wait for the next st

Re: [GNC] Scroll Bar and QIF Import OSX

2024-07-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
When I was on BigSur, I was also on an older version of GnuCash, so I can't say exactly how the new one would work, but I don't presently see any issues with 5.7 on Monterey. I do recall some issues with older versions of GnuCash on some systems not showing it though. Perhaps looking over close

Re: [GNC] Account types "Bank" and "Cash"

2024-07-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
William, If you Edit the account, you should see a checkbox for Auto Interest Transfer. Unchecking it should prevent the pop-up next reconciliation. Regards, Adrien On 7/2/24 3:33 PM, William Prescott wrote: I use the "Bank" account type. When I reconcile, it opens a popup window to enter a

Re: [GNC] Account types "Bank" and "Cash"

2024-07-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
At the least, the informal labels change. (thus, when *not* using Debit/Credit) There used to be a feature that allowed for adding an interest transaction for checking accounts when using the reconciliation feature. I seem to recall it being problematic, and so I think it was disabled, but I

Re: [GNC] Credit card reconciliation - starting balance

2024-07-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Have you ever reconciled this account? If not, the starting balance should have been zero. Regards, Adrien On 7/1/24 4:34 AM, Trevor Richards via gnucash-user wrote: I am failing to reconcile a CC account. The ledger appears to replicate my statement in the 1st month of transactions. The 1st

Re: [GNC] Exchange rate fluctuation changes historic amounts in P&L and BS

2024-06-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, P&Ls are not a re-evaluation at a specific date. That describes a Balance Sheet. P&L is a reporting of the results of transactions to expense and revenue accounts over a date range. (otherwise known as an Income Statement - there are entries for both in the GnuCash Reports menu. They are t

Re: [GNC] Exchange rate fluctuation changes historic amounts in P&L and BS

2024-06-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The transaction is set in stone, of its base currency. If you report in a different currency that can change based on exchange rates to the reporting currency. This is influenced by the Price Source of the report Options in the Commodities tab. Unfortunately, some of those options don't work q

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet totals showing zeros?

2024-06-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ken, GnuCash should, by default, set those preferences to match your computer's locale. If you are in Canada, unless you have a good reason to use a different one, your OS should be set to Canada as your locale. Then these preferences wouldn't be an issue. Regards, Adrien On 6/29/24 11:22 AM,

Re: [GNC] Imbalance Records with zero amounts

2024-06-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I intentionally do this with relevant memo text to keep track of transactions I'm not sure about. That gives me an easy list via the Imbalance account to see what still needs to be resolved, or just give up and committed as-is. Regards, Adrien On 6/27/24 2:06 AM, David Carlson wrote: Well, A

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Credit and Debit Columns in Journal View

2024-06-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash does not use the formal debit/credit labels by default just as you describe. (though I personally prefer the formal labels, and recommend those new to double-entry turn them on at least while learning as that will match textbook examples) Regards, Adrien On 6/26/24 8:58 AM, Sara-Jayne

Re: [GNC] generating a report for a single transaction type repeated in one account

2024-06-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In addition to David's suggestion of doing a Find followed by an Account Report, you can use the Transaction Report as you noted with the text you want to filter on via the Transaction Filter on the Filter tab in the report Options. Each report will give you the desired transactions, but they

Re: [GNC] Discovered install link for Finance Quotes in Win11 app

2024-06-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If gnucash-cli --quotes can write to the book, then try that with the Windows Task Scheduler. Regards, Adrien On 6/18/24 1:21 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Only issue now is the price database window hiding itself. Some way to easily schedule price updates would be nice. _

Re: [GNC] reconcile buttons

2024-06-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
One design. They even all use the GTK toolkit for drawing the UI. (though not always the same version across all platforms) As for the web server idea, see the RoadMap on the Wiki. GnuCash is not at present following the MVC paradigm or even an 'proper' database application. Work is being do

Re: [GNC] Missing Register Right Click Options

2024-06-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Good to know, thanks for reporting back on the resolution. Regards, Adrien On 6/14/24 8:37 PM, j a wrote: Hi, Adrien, This is to confirm that the issue has been resolved. It was due to a misconfiguration on my Gentoo Linux system. I inadvertently compiled some packages with flags that caused t

Re: [GNC] Color tabs: General Journal

2024-06-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Correct. Neither has an ID. Regards, Adrien On 6/12/24 8:50 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: Thanks, Adrien. I'll enter the request for enhancement and mention both General Journal and the Accounts tab, which I'll bet is also not separately ID'd.

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 255, Issue 13

2024-06-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Bruce, Try this: Set the Journal to show all transactions in Preferences. Set a filter while viewing the Journal to the period in question. Run an Account Report. You can do the same with individual accounts. The Transaction Report is also very powerful and can be customized quite a bit. I

Re: [GNC] GC now only opens a report

2024-06-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Indeed. I guess I never encountered it because I only use tabs and don't open reports or registers in separate windows. (*not* using separate windows will avoid this issue) Regards, Adrien On 6/12/24 3:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: You can close it as follows: - Start gnucash - open a report

Re: [GNC] Missing Register Right Click Options

2024-06-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Anytime you have an issue with something not working properly, please also include your Operating System. (and version) I can confirm that the right-click also works fine on 5.6 using MacOS 12.7.5 Monterey. I seem to recall some context menu issues (what you get when you right-click) way bac

Re: [GNC] Color tabs: General Journal

2024-06-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I fired up the inspector and poked around. Unfortunately, I didn't see any way to target just that tab for styling. It would need an ID (optimum) or class to write a CSS rule. So the only avenue left is to file an RFE on the bug tracker and ask to add the ability to set the tab color for the G

Re: [GNC] GC now only opens a report

2024-06-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash opens whatever tabs were open when you shut down. Why the Accounts tab doesn't come back up for some folks, I have no idea, as I don't know of a way to close it. (it is always visible for me) But you can certainly bring it back up via the View menu as you have discovered. Regards, Ad

Re: [GNC] Color tabs: General Journal

2024-06-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not in the UI, but perhaps with a CSS file. You'll want to fire up GnuCash with the GTKInspector to find out how to target that one tab, if it is even possible. Regards, Adrien On 6/10/24 8:34 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: I set the color on a couple of accounts, and then went to Edit

Re: [GNC] Clearing filters on account registers

2024-06-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Tabs don't change color on their own. You have to do that intentionally by editing an account and setting a color. This has nothing to do with filters. Make sure that Preferences > Register Defaults > Number of transactions is set to ZERO to show all transactions. While you mentioned the "Sh

Re: [GNC] Clearing filters on account registers

2024-06-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Paul, To further a bit on David's advice, see the Wiki about File Locations. Note the locations of GnuCash files for your particular OS. Then copy over the appropriate (or all) files between the two machines. Note, if you make any preference or settings changes, then you'll have to re-sync t

Re: [GNC] Clearing filters on account registers

2024-06-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In any register, if a filter is applied, the right end of the Status Bar (top or bottom of the tab, depending on a preference) will say 'Filtered' to alert you of that fact. If that is visible, then simple click View > Filter by..., and clear or update the filter to match the other computer.

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert)

2024-05-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You don't need to roll back a reconciliation that is now out of whack. If need be, un-reconcile that transaction split, then re-reconcile. Regards, Adrien On 5/29/24 8:33 AM, Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user wrote: So final thought for the GNUCash programmers.  Please consider a 'roll back' fac

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert)

2024-05-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash is supposed to warn you when editing a reconciled transaction that would change the flag. If not, perhaps you turned that message off. Check Actions > Reset Warnings and look for something like "change contents of reconciled split". If it is there, select it and Apply to reset the war

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back

2024-05-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
And I learn something new everyday. Thanks David! Regards, Adrien On 5/28/24 9:17 AM, David Carlson wrote: A tidbit of information that you may find helpful: If you hover the mouse over the "y" character in the reconcile box in an account split line, the date of the reconciliation for that acc

Re: [GNC] Running balance/total from search results is always $0.00

2024-05-29 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If the Memo field is your only criteria, then just use the Transaction Report and use the Filter tab for your Memo text. Note, you'll need to decide which account you are summing on the report though. (likely the same issue with the Account Report) In the case of multiple expense accounts for

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Both Michael & user 'flywire' have offered the 'how to do that' answer. Michael's answer involves out-of-the box reports that are further manipulated outside of GnuCash to achieve the desired end result, using the standard method of entering transactions. (this is quite normal for anything but

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This is a perfect example of why this list is not the place for accounting advice. We can't answer, "What should I do?" You have to know that first, then ask, "How do I accomplish this using GnuCash?" In many cases, the answer is, "The same way you'd do so with Pen & Paper." (sans the actua

Re: [GNC] How should I enter values on a budget in gnucash ?

2024-05-24 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Daniel, The Budget module needs lots of testing. Some changes were made (not sure at what release) to sort out issues with negative signs and the book preference for 'reverse balanced accounts.' I used to use this module quite a bit, but about that time, I fell behind and haven't gotten back

Re: [GNC] [gnc] Forecasting savings

2024-05-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is a budget module. Otherwise, you can use scheduled transactions, or just enter transactions in advance and run relevant reports. As the real-world transactions happen, edit those already entered to reflect any differences. If you want to preserve the prediction vs. actual, you might h

Re: [GNC] Easier way to print to PDF

2024-05-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
PDFs that are images are almost always scans of physical paper without an OCR step. Though, I'm sure some 'printers' take the image route rather than create a proper PDF. (Portable Document Format) Regards, Adrien On 5/20/24 7:43 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: PDF pitfall: some

Re: [GNC] Easier way to print to PDF

2024-05-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Does this answer your question?:https://askubuntu.com/questions/1263902/how-to-quickly-modify-cups-pdf-printer-output-folder-setting If not, you can set bookmarks to other locations in that file dialog. While this won't change the default, it would just be one extra click on the bookmarked loc

Re: [GNC] Manipulating data extracted from gnucash to Excel

2024-05-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Any reason not to use CTRL+A? Regards, Adrien On 5/19/24 9:08 PM, Joseph Keithley wrote: If the whole left-click hold copy and drag doesn't work well, there is an alternate method. When you move the mouse cursor to the top left of the tab, move the cursor slowly to the right until the mouse cu

Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.62 released!

2024-05-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Bruce, et al, Coding can be fun in many cases, but you seem to find solace in the mindbogglingly headache-inducing game of whack-a-mole, to everyone else's benefit! Thank you for the insane amount of effort you put forth on this project. I have yet to use (or profit) from all of it, but even

Re: [GNC] Use of cash discounts in business account tree

2024-05-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I am no accountant, but that doesn't sound quite correct. If you put the Cash Discounts account under Expenses, then that would be a contra-account as it reduces the price of your expenses you pay the wholesaler. So that credit is correct, but I don't see that there should be a debit to your c

Re: [GNC] Unable to Refine Existing Search

2024-05-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The Transaction Report has a Filter option that takes simple text as well as a Regular Expression. Regards, Adrien On 5/14/24 2:24 AM, Patrick Skelton wrote: I realise what I am really wanting here is a custom report but I need it to contain only records containing a certain string and I can'

Re: [GNC] How to transfer customer and vendor information from a previous GNUCash file?

2024-05-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Please remember to hit reply-all or reply-list so others can participate and benefit from the discussion. - While you can't delete an Invoice/Bill, you can reuse them. When I end up in such a situation, I change the document ID to "Use Next" so I can find it easily, and then simply edit it

Re: [GNC] How to enter an accrued expense before Invoice?

2024-05-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Please read over my original reply again. I gave you the transaction templates that illustrate what you are looking for. Step 1 is recording the accrued expense. This should be dated when the expense was incurred. (when service rendered) Step 2 is entering the Vendor Bill which accomplishes t

Re: [GNC] How to enter an accrued expense before Invoice?

2024-05-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That's only if you do everything manually as you describe. You could also use the Business Features to enter the Accountant's Invoice (Bill) to you, and then enter a payment to clear it. The line item(s) of that Bill, would connect to your Accrued Expenses account, though admittedly, not dire

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
A confirmation dialog that the Check & Repair was completed (maybe even with or without incident or a summary) would be nice to have, but I know the devs already have a full plate. Perhaps file an RFE (Request For Enhancement) in the bug tracker if that one doesn't already exist. Regards, Ad

Re: [GNC] How to transfer customer and vendor information from a previous GNUCash file?

2024-05-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
As far as I am aware, there is no means within GnuCash to export/import Business Features setup data such as Customers, Vendors, Employees, or Tax Tables. You can import Invoices/Bills from a CSV, (such as data generated by another app) but you can't export them. (outside of running relevant

Re: [GNC] How to enter an accrued expense before Invoice?

2024-05-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This is essentially a basic accounting question, not so much 'how to do this in GnuCash.' The exact accounts used are up to you, but generically between an accounts such as: Dr. Expenses:Professional Services Cr. Liabilities:Accrued Expenses When the invoice is received, draw down the Accr

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I think there were issues too with reports on Linux with NVIDIA graphics though there is a workaround and if I'm not mistaken, now also a fix. Regards, Adrien On 5/12/24 6:03 PM, Paul Kroitor wrote: You're on a Linux platform so it won't directly matter, but be aware that the Windows 5.5 versi

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Correct. The Check & Repair should run silently automatically upon first opening your file with 5.5, but it doesn't hurt to do it intentionally. The biggest change I recall between 4 & 5 is the new type-ahead search method for the Description field. I personally prefer the change, but some fol

Re: [GNC] [resolved] Re: no drop-down accounts list in ledger Transfer column.

2024-05-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You're welcome. Though, I don't think those AppImage builds are from the GnuCash development team. Caution is advised. Regards, Adrien On 5/9/24 5:59 AM, v@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 09/05/2024 01:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Any opposition to using flatpak? You wouldn

Re: [GNC] [resolved, sort-of] Re: no drop-down accounts list in ledger Transfer column.

2024-05-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Any opposition to using flatpak? You wouldn't have to wait. Regards, Adrien On 5/8/24 3:18 AM, v@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: That could explain things. Unfortunately, I can't (readily) install 4.13 on mint - even the latest mint 21.3 has libraries too old for the deb's off the website. But

Re: [GNC] no drop-down accounts list in ledger Transfer column.

2024-05-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hmm.. it has been many moons since I made the move from 3.x to 4.x, so I don't see an obvious preference either. But perhaps toggle the: Preferences > Register > Actions > Auto-raise lists checkbox and see if that helps. If not, note as I mentioned, you should still be able to type through

Re: [GNC] no drop-down accounts list in ledger Transfer column.

2024-05-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
4.x introduced a better 'type ahead search' in that field if I'm not mistaken, which could be why you see a discrepancy between 3.8 & 4.8. You can still use the old method either directly by typing the beginning of the full account path with separators like before to speed things up, or just s

Re: [GNC] Account Hierarchy

2024-05-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks Stan, I've bookmarked for future reference. Regards, Adrien On 5/3/24 9:50 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: https://github.com/dawansv/gnucash-custom-reports?tab=readme-ov-file#tag-prefix ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuca

Re: [GNC] Account Hierarchy

2024-05-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is another, simpler, option, such as: Sales and that's it. If you're using the Business Features and will be creating Invoices for your sales, then the invoice line items will contain the individual product sales data. (you also might have separate sub-accounts under Assets:Inventory f

Re: [GNC] Printing Reports: Income and Expense Line Chart

2024-04-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What version of GnuCash and what OS? I just created a PDF output via the 'Print to File' option in landscape just fine using GnuCash v5.5 on MacOS Monterey v12.7.4. Regards, Adrien On 4/30/24 8:02 AM, Tom Balazs wrote: Right now I'm struggling with the Income and Expense Line Chart. I want t

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote on a Mac with a foreign perl

2024-04-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
John, I have Homebrew installed. I'm not familiar with @INC, but happy to learn. I just ran gnc-fq-update without issues. I still have the output from that update if you need it, or if you need output from any other commands, just let me know. I'm still on GnuCash 5.5, my Perl is 5.30 and i

Re: [GNC] Please address broken QIF import

2024-04-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What do you find about dropping to an earlier release, not 'straightforward'? It is a simple matter of removing the current release, and installing the older one. (I believe on Windows systems, you can safely just install the older release as the installer will do the in-place replacement for y

Re: [GNC] Is anyone else getting these malicious e-mails?

2024-04-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
So far, nothing like that has come across the wire to me. Regards, Adrien On 4/14/24 9:57 PM, Michael DeBusk wrote: I've gotten two or three obviously-malicious e-mails pretending to be from this mailing list. The From: line lists the sender as "Gnucash User" but the address is not this one. I

Re: [GNC] how to find open invoices

2024-04-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Business > Customer > Find Invoice Set criteria to: Is Posted?, unchecked You can of course add other criteria to refine the search. Regards, Adrien On 4/13/24 10:07 PM, tburmas wrote:     I often have invoices that are open (in progress) that are not ready to post.  Is there a way to see a

Re: [GNC] Zorin os

2024-04-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The distro does not matter. (with perhaps some caveats concerning dependencies) While you technically can jump from 2.6.21 to 5.6 (current version), that isn't officially supported, nor recommended. See the Wiki FAQ about upgrading procedures from one major version to another. (In this case,

Re: [GNC] I'm looking at installing GnuCash but has a couple of questions first

2024-04-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Mac comes with screensharing built in. No need for a separate app. Some linux distributions also include VNC apps by default, or they can easily be installed. Regards, Adrien On 4/9/24 3:23 PM, G R Hewitt wrote: Also Teamviewer runs on a MAC too.

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You 'paid' when you 'tendered' the payment. (tender isn't just an offer of payment, but includes acceptance/receipt, which has happened in this case. It does not include cashing/depositing or otherwise processing a negotiable instrument that was tendered as payment.) How you handle the unclear

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While there are other considerations, such as cash versus accrual and following the Recognition Principle, I see this as more of a general case of Your Books vs. the Bank's Books. You keep Your Books. The Bank keeps theirs. You then reconcile the two. (which does *not* involve changing dates)

Re: [GNC] gnucash-devel list down?

2024-04-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
An announcement posted on 4/2 came through for me. And while you can get to it here: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel The archive link returns a Not Found. Regards, Adrien On 4/7/24 8:50 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: I have received nothing from that list since 3/

Re: [GNC] CSS GTK Register padding/spacing

2024-04-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The name of the class for #2 is just: .register-primary Though I don't know if you can add padding to it or not. (which is where the GTK Inspector comes in handy) Regards, Adrien On 4/1/24 2:31 PM, J R via gnucash-user wrote: I read all the wiki many times plus other sources 1. This works

Re: [GNC] CSS GTK Register padding/spacing

2024-04-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
See this wiki page: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3 I'm not sure how to run the inspector on Windows. Perhaps some other users here can help. There are plenty of threads on CSS in the list archives. Maybe one of them describes the Windows process. Without it, you're just shooting in the d

Re: [GNC] CSS GTK Register padding/spacing

2024-04-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are you using the GTK Inspector? It provides a sandbox to play with rules to see their effect and then you can put them in your CSS file. Keep in mind, not every element in the UI is exposed or even addressable for styling. Regards, Adrien On 4/1/24 6:34 AM, J R via gnucash-user wrote: I ca

Re: [GNC] Find account

2024-03-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That only works if the account is visible and not in a collapsed part of the tree. Regards, Adrien On 3/30/24 12:03 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: While in the Accounts pane you don't need to "use" anything. Just start typing a part of the name you're looking for. (It doesn't need to be

Re: [GNC] Segmentation fault while importing invoice data

2024-03-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
See the wiki about crashes and bug reports. Take a look there as well about getting a Tracefile, then file a bug with the crash report and tracefile as attachments. (The Tracefile may or may not contain relevant info) You don't mention your OS by the way. Regards, Adrien On 3/30/24 10:56 AM,

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-03-30 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash 5.6 should be out tomorrow with F::Q 1.59. Regards, Adrien On 3/29/24 10:32 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Yes, but as I went to flatpak to get a later release, it is discouraging that it fails to get updated for newer releases of Finance Quote and for all I can tell,

Re: [GNC] Updating gnucash

2024-03-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I could be mistaken, but I thought that the 'All' function negated the need to be viewing the CoA when running it, and that the non-All function operates as you describe. (context aware) Good tip about the task manager. Sometimes the process is so fast, you aren't sure if it completed

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Frozen

2024-03-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Anytime you have a problem, please report the GnuCash version and Operating System you are using. As for the issue at hand, my first guess is a hidden window has input control, but your OS allows you to scroll other 'background' windows. (I know MacOS and some Linux distributions can do this,

Re: [GNC] Updating gnucash

2024-03-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In addition to the advice given by the other replies, it is advised to run Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All when first opening a file after an upgrade between major releases. These checks and repairs are supposed to run automatically, but that doesn't always go smoothly or complet

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