On 2025-06-30 22:33, John W. O'Brien wrote:
On 2025-06-30 20:39, John Ralls wrote:
On Jun 30, 2025, at 16:16, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user <gnucash-
[email protected]> wrote:
On 2025-06-30 19:02, John W. O'Brien wrote:
Greetings friends,
My thanks to everybody who worked on the latest release.
I _just_ upgraded GnuCash to 5.12 (on macOS Sonoma 14.7.6, M3) and
my second task was to generate a new invoice. The Unit Price column
now shows up with four decimal places (e.g. "$100.0000") instead of
two ("$100.00"). The Quantity and Total columns are unaffected. This
is with the Fancy Invoice stylesheet to which I have applied non-
default settings. Invoices that existed prior to the upgrade, posted
or not, exhibit the same behavior.
This initial message is from immediately after noticing this change,
and is intended mainly for broader awareness so others will be on
the look- out for this. I intend to dig into my settings and read
the release notes more closely to see if this is a "me" problem.
Please feel free to point me in the right direction in the mean
time, if you know more than I do. If I cannot solve this on my own,
I will be glad to prepare a ticket.
There appears to be a relevant entry [0] in the 5.12 release notes:
Bug 799602 - Unit Price on Invoice will NOT display as decimals
Based on what little I grasped from a quick review of that bug, I
changes Preferences > Numbers, Date, Time: "Force Prices to display
as decimals." to ticked, verified that "Decimal places" is set to
"2", applied, and restarted the app. No change. The invoice still
displays with four decimal places.
[0] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799602
It’s a non-problem. That’s the way GnuCash is supposed to display
prices when force-to-decimal is enabled, with two more decimal places
than the currency. When force-to-decimal is off prices will display as
fractions if they can’t be presented exactly as a decimal.
The Decimal places field in Preferences>Numbers, Date, Time is for how
many decimal places to insert with the automatic decimal point
feature. It has no effect on the display of numbers.
Thank you for that explanation. I'm not sure I understand it fully, but
at least I grasp that the "Decimal places" setting is irrelevant to this
display anomaly that is new for me in 5.12.
If I want the old display behavior back, where all currency columns in
the Fancy Invoice report render precision to USD pennies ($0.01), no
more and no less, what should I try adjusting next? That is, I have no
need to display prices with more than penny precision, and doing so
unnecessarily is likely to cause confusion among my customers.
There's either something I'm still not getting or there is a new bug. I
cannot figure out any way to get the unit price column to display as I
expect on an invoice.
I started with a fresh install of 5.12-2 (macOS ARM) after renaming
~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash so that I would get default
settings. I made a new file with all defaults. I made an invoice with
three line items with unit prices 1, 10, and 100. In the "View Invoice"
display, these values are rendered with two decimal places, which is
what I expect. In each of the four invoice reports (Easy, Fancy,
Printable, Tax) the same values are rendered with four decimal places.
None of the other currency fields have this problem. I confirmed that
"Force Prices to display as decimals" is un-ticked. If I understand your
explanation correctly, this should be the "force-to-decimal is off" and
_can_ be presented exactly as a decimal scenario. These values can be
displayed exactly with zero decimal places. I would settle for two.
What am I missing?
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