Still may be a bug worth noting, but maybe this suggestion from a thread earlier this year [ https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-July/078469.html ] will help?
> With the budget screen open . . . View -> Filter By -> Other Tab and select > Show Unused Accounts -- *Jim Passmore* On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:27 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Interesting. Glad you found a workaround. But that sounds like a bug. > Please report it. (note, I don’t see a similar bug already on Bugzilla) > > I can confirm this behavior. As well, if you delete the workaround > transaction before creating the budget, the account won’t show up. So it > isn’t just a matter of creating an initial transaction, there has to be a > transaction in the account for it to appear in the new budget. (presumably, > you can *then* delete that workaround transaction) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > > On Nov 20, 2018, at 8:11 PM, <dtep...@yahoo.com> <dtep...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > Thanks. I'm using vers 3.3 on Win 10 > > > > For some reason when creating or revising a budget not all the accounts > automatically appear. But what I did discover is that if I put one > transaction in the account (like one cent)....then that account does > suddenly appear in the new budget which I want to create. For some reason > the accounts with zero in them don't appear in the budget hierarchy. > > > > So...I've found out how to do it by creating a false expense / income in > the accounts I need to appear in the budget. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+dteplus=yahoo....@gnucash.org> > On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone > > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:00 AM > > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > Subject: Re: [GNC] budget hierarchy not same as account hierarchy > > > > Dave, > > > > If you go to Actions > Budget > New Budget it should create a new budget > input window for you with all parent accounts collapsed. But expanding them > all should show the same hierarchy as your CoA tab. I don’t think there is > any way to even exclude an account from this window. (much less add an > account) The Budget Report on the other hand, can be customized to include > only the accounts you want. > > > > Note, I just tested this with version 3.3. If you are using some other > version, perhaps there is a bug there. (I also used the budget with > versions 2.16.12 or so through present, but I didn’t always create new > budgets with each. I’m pretty sure 2.6.15 and 2.6.19 worked fine) > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 6:53 PM, David and Tracy Erickson via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi. > >> I want to create a new budget but the budget hierarchy is not the same > as my account hierarchy. How do I correct this? Is there a way to refresh > the budget hierarchy so tat it matches the account hierarchy? > >> Thanks > >> Dave > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ 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 https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.