Agreed -- IMHO the current budget mechanism is a bad hack.
There are better ones e.g. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Zero-Sum_Budgeting
Test implementation available at
https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/master-envelope-budgeting
On 5/12/18 5:38 pm, D via gnucash-devel wrote:
Another option would be for someone (other than myself, because I never have
used, liked or understood the budgets module) to write some documentation for
the budgets.
A third option, even less likely, is for someone who cares to go in and try and
make sense of the budget features, and rewrite the functionality in a way that
people can understand and use. I say less likely because this area has been
deficient for a long time without any interest in improving it developing
anywhere.
A fourth option, more radical but based on the reality of number three, is to
remove this module altogether, since it is neither being fixed nor improved.
Keeping it around suggests to new users that it has any support behind it,
which is not the case.I
David
On December 5, 2018, at 2:58 PM, Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
Another case of something recently being an issue all of a sudden...
Perhaps changing the default to include *all* accounts is in order.
Certainly I can see the use case of someone setting up GnuCash for the first
time and one of the 1st items in their workflow being to create a budget before
they enter any transactions. I would say that is more likely than someone using
GnuCash for an entire year before diving into the budget module, which is the
apparent assumption based on how it works.
Regards,
Adrien
On Dec 5, 2018, at 3:24 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>
wrote:
Do you have any transactions in those accounts yet?
If not, they won’t show up by default.
You can change this setting in View > Filter By... > Other > Show unused
accounts.
Regards,
Adrien
On Dec 4, 2018, at 3:32 PM, Sadhna True <sadhnat...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I am a new Gnucash user, and I am using the software to manage personal
finances. I have previously used QuickBooks to do bookkeeping for a small
company.
In Gnucash, I created my accounts. When I create a new budget, a new tab opens,
but none of the accounts I created appear in the budget. What am I doing wrong?
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