Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
aining thing that runs on my XP virtual machine is some Epson scanner software. Otherwise it's almost always easier to do things on a 'real' machine, the virtual machine environment just introduces another layer of possible issues. -- Chris Green _

[GNC] "Make PDF" button just prints

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
I'm running Gnucash 5.3 on xubuntu linux. The "Make PDF" button on the toolbar just does exactly the same as the "Print" button, it calls up the standard printer dialogue. How can I get a report output as a PDF file? -- Chris Green ___

[GNC] Gnucash 5.3 always gives me an dbind error at startup

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
ocket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0.0: Permission denied GnuCash 5.3 Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26) So, why is it trying to create/connect to a socket in /root? It's bound to get a permission error. It seems to run OK in spite of this. -- C

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 5.3 always gives me an dbind error at startup

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:10:16AM -0800, john wrote: > > > > On Jan 12, 2024, at 13:09, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop to xubuntu 23.10 and that also upraded > > gnucash to version 5.3. > > > > Now, every time

Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" button just prints

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:55:00PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 1/16/24 8:05 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Gnucash 5.3 on xubuntu linux. > > > > The "Make PDF" button on the toolbar just does exactly the same as the > > "Print&quo

[GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
entries. Surely there's a way to get an edtable report!? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
rite occupation. Any other format, whether markup of some sort or word-precessor is infinitely better. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnuc

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
;m trying to do) using a spreadsheet!?? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
er/app to achieve > what you need? This is what I'm after. I'm all Linux based but so far whatever route I take to get from GnuCash's HTML to PDF I end up with a PDF file with images rather than text in it. What do you use to convert to PDF? -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
inux, so LibreOffice etc. are here by default). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remembe

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Chris Green
ch gets me to the result I want, a report I can edit reasonably easily in lowriter. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo

[GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-08 Thread Chris Green
is there an easy way to change this please. I'd prefer something that will fix things every time I create a new transaction report rather than having to edit every report after creating it. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-11 Thread Chris Green
erences to 'transaction' or 'name of account' in my stylesheet settings. Is this something that has been changed since version 4.8? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-11 Thread Chris Green
Adrien, Thanks for your continuing support with this, see further comments and informaiton below. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:52:36AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 3/11/24 5:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 12:01:01PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: &

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

2024-04-15 Thread Chris Green
rom subscribing to the > list, and as you note then the addresses can be collected. > I use a *lot* ofmailing lists (60 or more) and I filter each into a separate inbox. The filter uses the mail headers to separate the lists and, thus, junk mail gets ignored. I'm sur

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

2024-05-11 Thread Chris Green
#x27;m moving to new hardware so the old system will not disappear. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

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

2024-05-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 12:45:11PM -0700, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > Chris: > > On 2024-05-11 03:21, Chris Green wrote: > > I am changing my Linux desktop computer from one running xubuntu 22.04 > > to one running xubuntu 24.04. As a result of this the GnuCash version > >

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

2024-05-12 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 03:49:04PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/11/24 3:08 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > So, given that I'm going up just one major release I shouls be OK, but > > running "Check & Repair" before doing anything else is a good idea. > C

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

2024-05-25 Thread Chris Green
. So the solution has to be simple and manageable by part-time, non-professional people. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

Re: [GNC] Linux gnucash saves files to home directory.

2024-06-29 Thread Chris Green
Yes, it's an absolite pain isn't it!? I've muttered about this several times in the past but it doesn't seem to trouble most people. I just wish there was a way to tell GnuCash to put its "working" files in some user definable sub-directory instead of in the directory

Re: [GNC] SpamAssassin??

2021-10-23 Thread Chris Green
;re familiar with) to compose your 'complex' message and then post it as text. Personally it's one of the reasons I use a text-mode E-Mail program as it allows me to use my favourite (and very familiar to me) programming text editor to compose my messages. -- Chris Green __

Re: [GNC] elementary questions

2021-10-23 Thread Chris Green
matted text when you haven't. -- Chris Green ___ 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, ple

Re: [GNC] Using Gnucash to access file over flaky network

2021-11-24 Thread Chris Green
the database > should be fine.) > > Can anyone confirm whether it's reasonable to expect that Gnucash with > Sqlite backend over sshfs would have working locking and decent > resilience against data corruption in this scenario? Or point out any > obvious "gotcha" I'm

[GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
arrow do nothing when it's in this state. The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never seen this problem before though. I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. -- Chris Green ___ gnu

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > is at the moment. > > > > While entering t

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:05:05PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can&#x

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:48:33AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > is at the moment. > > > > While entering transac

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-01 Thread Chris Green
hly upgrades dating back to somewhere like 11.04 or even earlier. I did do one clean install but that was because I did some rather major hardware upgrades at the same time. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 03:30:02PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > I should have added, the particular distribution of Ubuntu I am using is &

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 10:20:49AM -0600, David Carlson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [GNC] Adaptive learning reset of imports

2021-12-08 Thread Chris Green
o machines at the same time, I always exit from GnuCash after using it. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Why do people start new threads?

2021-12-11 Thread Chris Green
(and useful IMHO) communication medium used for software technical[ish] discussions. I am on far too many (mostly software) discussion lists to even possibly contemplate them moving to forums. With E-Mail everything arrives in my mail program (sorted into separate places for each list), if

Re: [GNC] Why do people start new threads?

2021-12-12 Thread Chris Green
d, that's the fundamental reason for having a Message-ID:. Using anything else is second best. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mai

Re: [GNC] Why do people start new threads?

2021-12-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 04:06:48PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:52:49 + > Chris Green wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 01:16:12PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:24:15 + > > > "Dr. David Kirkby" w

Re: [GNC] OneDrive

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Green
hem if you want. I do keep (off site) incremental backups as well. You do need to be able to go back in time to recover from your own errors which GnuCash (or whatever) has faithfully saved for you! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

[GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Green
ry time I want to look at last year's accounts instead of this years) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 4/6/2022 8:15 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > > I use GnuCash for our (very small) church's accounts and find it works > > very well. > > > > However I do have issues with the

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:54:35PM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 9:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > > On 4/6/2022 8:15 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [GNC] Some questions about reports

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 03:06:45PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:54:35PM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 9:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: >

[GNC] Where has a custom report been saved?

2022-04-08 Thread Chris Green
like that as a file anywhere. Is it buried somewhere in the database (I use sqlite)? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/list

[GNC] Debit and Credit columns wrong way round on one transaction report but not the other

2022-04-08 Thread Chris Green
I have two accounts for my PCC using GnuCash, one is the general church fund and the other is the buiding fund. For some odd reason the Debit and Credit column labels are the wrong way round on the building fund, other reports are OK. What's going on? -- Chris

Re: [GNC] Where has a custom report been saved?

2022-04-08 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I have a custom report (I think it's basically a modified Transaction > Report) in one gnucash set of files that I want to use in another > gnucash. > > Where and how do I find my customised report settings? It

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
lt, but it > won't override what you tell it. > Where do you tell it that? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
icant files in my home directory and that includes GnuuCash's data files. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuc

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 06:58:30PM +1000, Liz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > > > 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by defa

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:54:31PM -0700, john wrote: > > > > On Apr 20, 2022, at 1:58 AM, Liz wrote: > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100 > > Chris Green wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > &g

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread Chris Green
SpiritualityOfFundraising.pdf Whoswho.docx parishReturn2019.pdf No long suffixes, obvious names and no backup/log files in the same directory. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your su

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread Chris Green
latter case, either you used the [x] to close it, or shut down the You mean I'm not supposed to use th X (top right in window) when I close down GnuCash! Every other program I have ever used shuts down cleanly when one does this! -- Chris Green ___

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 06:54:11PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op donderdag 21 april 2022 16:36:36 CEST schreef Bert Riding: > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:45:20 +0100 > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:54:31PM -0700, john wrote: > > &g

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread Chris Green
e filename when I run GnuCash. I also just about always start GnuCash from the command line in a terminal window, I don't like screens cluttered with icons. So my ideal is files simple called 2022General, 2022Buildings or whatever with no, or at least a minima

Re: [GNC] Shutdown using the "X" in windows 11

2022-04-25 Thread Chris Green
shouldn't even know if swap is being used or not. The only thing a large swap might do is slow things down so that GnuCash takes a while to exit/save. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription pr

Re: [GNC] Linux. Mysql and Gnucash 4.1

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
#x27;t believe GnuCash works with mysql (or the equivalent mariadb), the only database storage option that I'm aware of is sqlite. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

[GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
is I get presented with a 'memory' of other accounts which can be very confusing unless I'm very careful with file naming. The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more!

[GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
n Tab) I can't find the string 'open account' anwhere in there. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 04:25:02PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory. > > Is th

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:24:32PM -0400, David T. wrote: >On April 26, 2022 11:25:02 AM EDT, Chris Green wrote: > > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > > GnuCash

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
says " Do not load the last file opened". To me that says don't open the last file GnuCash had opened when I exited. As I said I can, of course, write wrapper scripts (or desktop files) to make GnuCash open specific files. However I wish it *didn't* open the last file I

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash? databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
sh from a menu or icon (rather than the command line) I'd really prefer that it didn't default to the last set of accounts opened. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to u

Re: [GNC] Linux. Mysql and Gnucash 4.1

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:47:04PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 4/26/22 3:28 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:36:30PM +1200, grant wrote: > > > So I have rebuilt my laptop, recovered my databases and installed Gnucash > > > 4.1 but I cannot

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
information associated with the GnuCash data which I keep in the same directory. E.g. there are copies of cheques deposited and GiftAid records. So my way of working is to go (in a terminal window) to that directory and then run programs as needed from there. --

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:10:21PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts > > database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more! > > > It may be c

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:49:02PM -0600, brad wrote: > > On 4/26/22 09:25, Chris Green wrote: > > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > > GnuCash I just want it to see

Re: [GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
Google directly to find specific topics and info. > OK, thanks, so at least I'm not missing anything. :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
I have a prototype script for GnuCash now that I run when I'm in the appropriate directory to open the GnuCash file there. It's still a bit 'messy' with all the log files that GnuCash leaves there, I'm working on that as well! :-) -- Chris Green __

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
out church business and nothing to do with money. I still want to keep them in the same place. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.o

[GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
s have got the list but there seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes doesn't. I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscripti

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:25:49AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a > > transaction? If so how should one do it? > > > > If I click on the entry it&#x

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
sion 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscript

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
aracter set. > Ah, I think you have lead me to the fix, or at least a workaround. If I actually delete (or partially delete) the account name in the transfer column then I get offered the nearest match account name(s). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
GnuCash (or at least one that has been fixed since 4.4). -- Chris Green ___ 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

[GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
. However it's the wrong way round, I want dates down the page and accounts across the page. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucas

[GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
he GnuCash data file name but that does make it rather long and clumsy, and it makes for redundant information which Mr Codd doesn't like! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferenc

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
ile in a generic directory the way that GnuCash does is very rare. Storing universal settings like this makes sense, it provides defaults for the way one wants an application to work, but settings like the dates applying to a particular file should be stored with (or in) that file. -- Chris Green __

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
> > There are further sub-directories to sum of these. It makes it very easy for > me sum = 'some' :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
ng so annoying now! :-) -- Chris Green ___ 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

Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
t making a selection. > I get the change to the up arrow, but (as I said) there's no list to be closed. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://li

Re: [GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:07:53AM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2022, 11:53 pm Chris Green, wrote: > > > My auditor wants a transaction report showing transactions in date > > order one per line with the transaction amounts in columns according > > to

[GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
ll size used for all the 'body' text and so the name doesn't stand out to indicate the start of the next account. I can 'do' CSS but there don't seem to be any obvious selectors for the items I want to change. Is there any detailed description of what sel

Re: [GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:27:59PM +, Christopher Lam wrote: > Use the "Income & GST Statement" report. > > [image: image.png] > > [image: image.png] > Yes, thank you, I've finally got there. That provides the information (plus a few unwa

[GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
with the values I want? -- Chris Green ___ 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

Re: [GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:36:19AM -0500, David Carlson wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:32 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > I find I nearly always change the same five or six report options > > every time I want a new report. For example I nearly always want to > > selec

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op dinsdag 3 mei 2022 18:37:20 CEST schreef Chris Green: > > GnuCash names files in ~/.local/share/gnucash/books according to the > > filename of the GnuCash data file. This is a bit of a problem for me > > b

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
in the name when in fact these are :the same > file except for a different year is an EXCELLENT way to go > Yes, except that it does make for rather long filenames. I'd really be happiest if my GnuCash 'building' bank account data file was simply calle

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:33:51AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/4/22 5:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > The Transaction Report probably provides the information that my > > auditor wants by listing each account's transactions in order and > > giving the total

Re: [GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:29:28AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/4/22 9:31 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I find I nearly always change the same five or six report options > > every time I want a new report. For example I nearly always want to > > select all accounts (at

Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
year are in:- /home/chris/pictures/2020s/2022/03/24 ... and I can very easily find pictures I took on my school summer holidays in the 1960s, and everywhere in between. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update yo

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:59:55PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > On 5/5/22 3:12 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there any guarantee that the CSS Stylesheet wll allow me to access > > every selector I can see in the HTML output? I guess I can simply > > take a look an

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
g each section should be more noticeable. > That's clever! I'd looked at the output HTML but I didn't know about the "first child" modifier. I'll certainly try it, thank you. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing lis

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-06 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:13:06PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I just played around with it on the Transaction Report and came up with > > this: > > > > td:first-child { > > font-wei

[GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

2022-05-06 Thread Chris Green
interested in copying reports across as I run GnuCash on both my desktop machine and my laptop. Just copying the GnuCash data file means that I get the same accounts on both systems but not reports and connected files ('experimental' CSS for report

Re: [GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

2022-05-08 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 07:02:22AM +1000, Liz Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 18:58:13 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > However there are other files one needs to copy if you want reports > > and screen layout and things like that to be the same. Is this > > document

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-11 Thread Chris Green
because it means I can quite transparently use GnuCash on my desktop or when I'm away from home on my laptop. The standard GnuCash lock files prevent me from doing things in two places at once by mistake. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing lis

[GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-26 Thread Chris Green
nover is probably down in the hundreds now. Is there anyone else using GnuCash for this? Thank you for any/all help that anyone can offer. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferenc

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial > > Church Council. The existing accounts are all wholly manual and I > > wa

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
quot; And if you don;t know any of the various options > for accounting for restricted funds, grants, etc. isn't THAT the problem as > opposed to "doing it using gnucash"? > Well, yes, but the existing paper system is hardly transparent! :-) I'm really only trying to wor

[GNC] Setting up for restricted/unrestricted PCC accounts - what's a reasonable approach.

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
... income ... ... unrestricted expenses income It feels like the first is right as one can then still do overall expenses versus income more easily, or have I got it completel

[GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
used for a specific purpose and is often long term and may actually (though not necessarily) be an endowment or some such. I don't think I need to manage 'restricted' funds as we don't have any in our tiny little church. -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 11:40:03AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2020, at 10:39, Chris Green wrote: > >> > > Well it sounds as if you know the ins and outs then! :-) > > I seem to have got away with it so far, with the help of charity-friendly > a

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
ink. If it turns out that there are several then I can have a hierachy with a 'placeholder' restricted and underneath it 'new roof', 'building repairs' or whatever. However I think this may be overkill, we aren't going to be that lucky. -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-30 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:51:45PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 29 August 2020 at 11:40, Chris Green said: > > > I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted > > funds issue. > > > > I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our P

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