Indeed I never updated the documentation for the changes in the csv importer. Back then other people were actively working on the documentation and I silently hoped they would step in... That hasn't happened so far.
I apologize I missed updating the introduction page. I may pick that up for a future release. Regards, Geert John Ralls <[email protected]> schreef op 20 juli 2024 01:49:41 CEST: >As I said, I see that as a documentation issue. The column labels have to be >terse and we can’t use per-item tooltips in the long run because the Gtk folks >have pulled them from Gtk4. It’s not great that Geert changed the headings for >the amount columns from Deposit and Withdrawal to Amount and Amount(negated) >but forgot to change the intro screen to reflect it. > >The import dialog also lacks a help button. OTOH the context help is so clunky >I wonder if anyone would use it. Would you? >Even if you would the actual documentation for importing CSV doesn’t explain >all of the column headers and still says Deposit and Withdrawal. > >Regards, >John Ralls > >> On Jul 19, 2024, at 09:22, Greg Julius <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> FWIW, I really struggled with this to figure out what was wrong with my >> imports. There is a Commodity field and there is a Currency field. I had >> to repeatedly fill in fields until I found the issue was Currency. >> >> I also think all of you that help/develop this product do a great job. >> >> Blessings, >> -greg >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: gnucash-user >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of John Ralls >> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 10:40 AM >> To: flywire >> Cc: Gnucash Users >> Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse? >> >> >> >>> On Jul 19, 2024, at 00:10, flywire <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 2. An error message displayed "You must choose a commodity" is wrong and >>>> should be "You must choose a Security/currency" Choose AUD >>> >> >> That’s too narrow an interpretation of “commodity”. Both securities and >> currencies are commodities, but for example widgets are commodities but are >> neither securities nor currencies. The error message is correct, what’s >> apparently lacking is communicating to users the meaning of “commodity”. >> We’re also guilty of mixed messaging because we call the tool that manages >> commodities the Security Editor. Both are a larger problem than an error >> dialog in the CSV importer. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> 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 >[email protected] >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
