[GNC] Account report (Tommy Trussell)
Thanks Tommy, I tried that and it worked fine. I did not want to use the A/R and invoicing procedures as it was not appropriate in our case and we have relatively few members, and not all of them need a statement. I prefer the simplicity of the procedure you mentioned. To overcome the issue I had with no opening and closing balances I found that under options- display for the report I could tick "running balance", which I had not seen before. Cheers David -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org Sent: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 10:16 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 213, Issue 19 Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to gnucash-user@gnucash.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org You can reach the person managing the list at gnucash-user-ow...@gnucash.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. How to use Reminders? (Fran_3) 2. Saving to MySQL (Ira Fuchs) 3. Re: How to use Reminders? (Derek Atkins) 4. Re: Account report (Tommy Trussell) 5. Re: How to use Reminders? (Fran_3) 6. Re: Possible Jump Enhancement (Tommy Trussell) 7. Re: Possible Jump Enhancement (Adrien Monteleone) 8. Re: How to use Reminders? (Tommy Trussell) 9. Re: How to use Reminders? (Stephen M. Butler) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:10:48 + (UTC) From: Fran_3 To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] How to use Reminders? Message-ID: <1828325465.6250073.1607537448...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to Post the bill you don't get reminded.Problem with missing your boss's birthday is you forgot what date it was. So, how do you create a general purpose Reminders for various things in GnuCash like..- Post Electric Bill Today (this reminds you to go find the bill online or in the mail or wherever & post it) - Boss's birthday is on April 1st- Valentines Day coming up on February 14th- Leave check under door mat for yard guy I see the calendar view via clicking... Actions > Schedule > Edit Scheduled Transactions And the tabs & fields when I click "New" And most of the fields are obvious except under Template Transaction... I'm clueless about what I'm looking at...Is tat a template for...- a new bill to be posted- a reminder to pay a bill- or what? And, what about a reminder that is not a financial transaction? Questions: 1 - Is there a way to create General Purpose Reminders in GnuCash? 2 - Where can I find instructions on how to navigate to General Purpose Reminders? 3 - Is there a document that explains the use of the various fields in either... a. the General Purpose Reminder or in b. Scheduled Transactions Reminders? Thanks for any help. -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:47:01 -0500 From: Ira Fuchs To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] Saving to MySQL Message-ID: <2d0dbbd3-9ba6-463e-81ed-ee8d8acf1...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have installed MySQL 8.0.22 on a Mac running Mojave (v10.14.6) with no changes to any configuration file. I would like to save my GnuCash file to this server but I am getting an error: The server at URL mysql://root@localhost/gnucash experienced an error or encountered bad or corrupt data. What to do? -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:50:42 -0500 From: "Derek Atkins" To: "Fran_3" Cc: "Gnucash Users" Subject: Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders? Message-ID: <42107c74d404ae6c48945db9e31cc31f.squir...@mail2.ihtfp.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Hi, Before I respond inline below, I just want to point out that GnuCash is not a calendaring system. If you want to remember things like your Boss' birthday or Valentine's day, there are much better tools (like your calendar!) to do that. So use those tools for those kinds of reminders. Having said that On Wed, December 9, 2020 1:10 pm, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: > Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to > Post the bill you don't get reminded. Why do you not post the bill as soon as you get it? I mean, if you take the time to enter in your bill into the system, why not post it immediately? It's not like the bill is going to change over time, or be ammended. So in the immortal words of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"... "Don't Do That." Post your bill when you enter it. That's what the reminders are for, to pay the bill that you entered AND POSTED. > Problem with missing your boss's birthday is you
Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders?
I'm going to reply in-line, but please understand, I sympathize, and have been in those shoes. What I'm about to say may at first sound harsh, but please keep reading... On 12/9/20 2:03 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: Please, wake up and smell the real world small business day old burnt coffee at the end of a 12 hour day when you are trying to do the bookkeeping and still get home for a few hours sleep before it all starts over again... Look... if you are working the front desk, or the floor, and trying to do other small business duties, doing the books, and trying to keep up with bills from a large quantity of vendors... Sounds like an organizational problem, not an accounting problem. - And some vendors don't actually send you a bill, they just expect you to know they want their payment by the 10th of the month or whatever... Then have a talk with the vendor about their expectations. You are *their* customer after all. (yes, I know many suppliers forget this fact, but that doesn't mean you have to let them behave that way.) - While other vendors send bills via snail mail... Just enter *and* post the bill when it arrives. That's been standard procedure for eternity. Use *their* posting date, not your entering date. (this will correctly 'age' the bill) - And other vendors email bills- Same procedure. And now some small vendors are even (exclusively) using Social Media Private Messenger instead of email to send bills... Now that is absurd. I can't imagine they expect you to even be guaranteed to receive it. Sounds like you need to have a chat with those vendors as well. - So bills are coming in from every direction...Some times it gets very hard to keep up with the mail, email, etc...Results... things fall through the cracks no matter how hard you work. A personal organizational problem, not an accounting problem. And one that I doubt can ever be solved 100%. So now you are telling me to keep up with multiple calendars ! No, Derek did not suggest this. That is for you to decide what tools you need to do the job. GnuCash is NOT and never will be "all things to all people", ever. Would you suggest it be able to send e-mail, type letters, surf the web? Please, take a breath and ponder a spell. Yet another job piled on the head of some poor owner or employee working at a conically understaffed, hanging on for dear life, small business !!! Again, sounds like an organizational and time management problem. What you are describing is not unique to you. Thousands of businesses deal with these issues. (and likely those who do not manage it, are the ones who never become profitable, or don't stay that way) Forget the damn boss's birthday and Valentines day... the main issue here is having specific reminders to remember to go find and post every bill that came in from who knows where. There is no substitute for your own workflow discipline and time management. No software package can prevent you from forgetting to do the tasks of your job description. Some can help in some cases, but only marginally so. YOU still have to use those tools, yes 'tools' is plural. There is no 'one' system for everything, anywhere, from any company or organization. If it were that easy to "just post the bills" the OP would have never been created. It is, you are just overwhelmed due to either too many responsibilities, or lacking a workflow/method to get them in line instead of them making you chase your tail, putting out fires. There are lots of blogs and books on the subject. GnuCash is not the answer to that question. GnuCash can remind you what bills (that are posted) are due and when and how much is left to pay, but it can't remind you to put the data in the system in the first place. This is why Derek suggested a general calendar/reminder app. You need one of those regardless. They are better suited to the 'general reminders' you seek. You can set reminders in said app to check to see if you've received this or that vendor's bill yet, and if so, to be sure to enter and post it. Then, and only then, will GnuCash pick up from that point and handle reminding you about payment. GnuCash is about the data entered into it. You have to find other solutions for the steps before that point. (or entirely outside of it) Sorry for the rant, we love GC... but creating/modifying the code for a simple general purpose reminder ain't that big of a job. Are you a programmer? If so, code it. Contributions welcome. (if they are within the scope of the app) Remember, there is no organization or company behind GnuCash - everyone is a volunteer. There are plenty of other apps already in existence to handle this. Heck, you don't even need an app. A paper calendar will do just fine. There is a large market in desk blotters and wall calendars still. Apparently businesses in 2020 still use them effectively - because they work. (My Aunt has been paying the bills
Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders?
On 12/9/20 12:03 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: Please, wake up and smell the real world small business day old burnt coffee at the end of a 12 hour day when you are trying to do the bookkeeping and still get home for a few hours sleep before it all starts over again... Look... if you are working the front desk, or the floor, and trying to do other small business duties, doing the books, and trying to keep up with bills from a large quantity of vendors...- And some vendors don't actually send you a bill, they just expect you to know they want their payment by the 10th of the month or whatever...- While other vendors send bills via snail mail...- And other vendors email bills- And now some small vendors are even (exclusively) using Social Media Private Messenger instead of email to send bills... - So bills are coming in from every direction...Some times it gets very hard to keep up with the mail, email, etc...Results... things fall through the cracks no matter how hard you work. So now you are telling me to keep up with multiple calendars ! Yet another job piled on the head of some poor owner or employee working at a conically understaffed, hanging on for dear life, small business !!! Forget the damn boss's birthday and Valentines day... the main issue here is having specific reminders to remember to go find and post every bill that came in from who knows where. If it were that easy to "just post the bills" the OP would have never been created. Sorry for the rant, we love GC... but creating/modifying the code for a simple general purpose reminder ain't that big of a job. My guess here is this is about setting design boundaries to minimize project creep... got it... but this one is so close to the line that I dare characterize it as a reasonable "suggestion"... There is probably a way to use the current reminder feature to "fake it" just to get an "in your face" reminder to do whatever. I'll post back if I come up with such. Yes, please, wake up! Use the correct tool for the intended job. Don't pound a nail with the screwdriver. And definitely don't use the hammer to attempt to drive a phillips screw into the wall. 1. Get a good email client that also has a decent calendar. Being on Linux/Ubuntu I use Thunderbird. It has a great calendar system that links up with Google Calendar (and the mail client links up really well with Gmail). The wife (an accountant) also uses Thunderbird on her less desirable Windows box. Both of us share the calendar and mail with our phones and tablets. Yes, I see her calendar and she sees mine. That way I don't have to fire up GnC to find what what is happening today (or tomorrow). 2. Get a better bank or credit union. Mine can get electronic bills from most of my vendors and will send me a notice when the invoice comes in. I can even flag certain vendors to auto-pay so all I have to do is download the checking transactions from the bank. For those that won't play nice with the bank, I still enter their information and bills (as I receive them) into the bank's payment feature so that the bank pays the postage and stuffs it into the envelope or me (at no charge). 3. Setup the recurring transactions in the transaction scheduler. It can handle such things as recording the SSA insecurity check deposit on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Or the internet charge from Century-can't-Link on the 28th of each month. [and since the bank also sees the invoice and the vendor is flagged to auto-pay, well, doesn't leave much for me to do except fire up GnC once in a while]. 4. Maybe you have too many vendors. 5. Maybe not enough employees. 6. Automate what you can in small steps. I'd recommend starting with that email/calendar system that auto-syncs with your phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, wife's set of devices, etc. Do one at a time. Don't automate everything at once. You can hire consultants to do the software setup and integration. PS. You can setup recurring calendar items in Thunderbird, Google Calendar, Android Calendar and they all link together. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 1:50:45 PM EST, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, Before I respond inline below, I just want to point out that GnuCash is not a calendaring system. If you want to remember things like your Boss' birthday or Valentine's day, there are much better tools (like your calendar!) to do that. So use those tools for those kinds of reminders. Having said that On Wed, December 9, 2020 1:10 pm, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to Post the bill you don't get reminded. t Why do you not post the bill as soon as you get it? I mean, if you take the time to enter in your bill into the system, why not post it immediately? It's not like the bill is going to change over time, or be ammended. So in the immortal words of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"...
Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:05 PM Fran_3 via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > There is probably a way to use the current reminder feature to "fake it" > just to get an "in your face" reminder to do whatever. I'll post back if > I come up with such. > If you create a scheduled transaction with NOTHING in the Template Transaction tab, GnuCash will remind you of its existence when it kicks off. Just don't tick the "Create Automatically" option so the transaction will always appear in the Since Last Run dialog. Note that you can create scheduled transactions that follow several kinds of rules, such as the fifteenth of the month, or four days before the third Wednesday of each month, etc. etc. I name my reminder Scheduled Transactions something like "Download BigBank Statement" or "Transfer Niece's Funds to LittleBank" along with some text reminding me what day of the month the reminder is intended to appear. If the Scheduled Transaction gets to the "To Create" status and you don't want it to go away yet, you can change the reminder's status in the Since Last Run dialog. I'm not in front of a system with any pending transactions at the moment but there are several statuses to choose from. As Derek stated, GnuCash is NOT the best tool for calendar entries, but you CAN use Scheduled Transactions for reminder items. If you let your imagination roam you automate a few financial tasks using the transactions themselves. :-) > - > 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.
Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
That might be what I was thinking of. It is about the triggering of the message, but not the vagueness of the message itself. I should think those two are separate issues. Regards, Adrien On 12/9/20 3:35 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: Bug 686051 ? https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051 ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:54 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 12/9/20 9:25 AM, David Carlson wrote > > Just to stir up the muddy bottom, I too often forget to commit the > > transaction in the previous tab, which can mean getting a 'Save the > Changed > > transaction' warning which doesn't reference exactly which transaction > was > > changed, or whether it was the cat walking across the keyboard that > changed > > it. > > I agree, that error message could be a bit more descriptive, and if I'm > not mistaken, there is a bug report on it, or else I'm just recalling > seeing it discussed before. > Bug 686051 ? https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051 ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders?
Please, wake up and smell the real world small business day old burnt coffee at the end of a 12 hour day when you are trying to do the bookkeeping and still get home for a few hours sleep before it all starts over again... Look... if you are working the front desk, or the floor, and trying to do other small business duties, doing the books, and trying to keep up with bills from a large quantity of vendors...- And some vendors don't actually send you a bill, they just expect you to know they want their payment by the 10th of the month or whatever...- While other vendors send bills via snail mail...- And other vendors email bills- And now some small vendors are even (exclusively) using Social Media Private Messenger instead of email to send bills... - So bills are coming in from every direction...Some times it gets very hard to keep up with the mail, email, etc...Results... things fall through the cracks no matter how hard you work. So now you are telling me to keep up with multiple calendars ! Yet another job piled on the head of some poor owner or employee working at a conically understaffed, hanging on for dear life, small business !!! Forget the damn boss's birthday and Valentines day... the main issue here is having specific reminders to remember to go find and post every bill that came in from who knows where. If it were that easy to "just post the bills" the OP would have never been created. Sorry for the rant, we love GC... but creating/modifying the code for a simple general purpose reminder ain't that big of a job. My guess here is this is about setting design boundaries to minimize project creep... got it... but this one is so close to the line that I dare characterize it as a reasonable "suggestion"... There is probably a way to use the current reminder feature to "fake it" just to get an "in your face" reminder to do whatever. I'll post back if I come up with such. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 1:50:45 PM EST, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, Before I respond inline below, I just want to point out that GnuCash is not a calendaring system. If you want to remember things like your Boss' birthday or Valentine's day, there are much better tools (like your calendar!) to do that. So use those tools for those kinds of reminders. Having said that On Wed, December 9, 2020 1:10 pm, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: > Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to Post > the bill you don't get reminded. Why do you not post the bill as soon as you get it? I mean, if you take the time to enter in your bill into the system, why not post it immediately? It's not like the bill is going to change over time, or be ammended. So in the immortal words of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"... "Don't Do That." Post your bill when you enter it. That's what the reminders are for, to pay the bill that you entered AND POSTED. > Problem with missing your boss's birthday > is you forgot what date it was. This is not a GnuCash problem; use your calendar for that. There are many options, like Orange and Evolution, which will do a MUCH better job. > So, how do you create a general purpose Reminders for various things in > GnuCash like..- Post Electric Bill Today (this reminds you to go find the > bill online or in the mail or wherever & post it) > - Boss's birthday is on April 1st- Valentines Day coming up on February > 14th- Leave check under door mat for yard guy None of these reminders belong in GnuCash. > I see the calendar view via clicking... Actions > Schedule > Edit > Scheduled Transactions > And the tabs & fields when I click "New" > And most of the fields are obvious except under Template Transaction... > I'm clueless about what I'm looking at...Is tat a template for...- a new > bill to be posted- a reminder to pay a bill- or what? The Template Transaction is the transaction you have scheduled. The template will be executed and posted into your accounts when the SX fires. The template can be anything (well, any transaction -- you cannot schedule a Business feature object like Invoice or Bill). I, personally, use them to schedule Loan (and Mortgage) payments, because it can approximate interest calculations. > And, what about a reminder that is not a financial transaction? > Questions: > 1 - Is there a way to create General Purpose Reminders in GnuCash? No. > 2 - Where can I find instructions on how to navigate to General Purpose > Reminders? Read up on Evolution (the program, not the Theory of). > 3 - Is there a document that explains the use of the various fields in > either... > a. the General Purpose Reminder or in > > b. Scheduled Transactions Reminders? There should be documentation the SX Editor, yes. Check the Help file. Oh, one more thing -- keep in mind that you can post-date a transaction. For example, I tell my bank to go pay my credit card $1234 on the 17th. Even though today is the 9th, I can enter a transaction
Re: [GNC] Account report
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:47 PM David Long wrote: > Hi, how can I select just the last few months for an "Account Report". I > am getting the whole history of the account from the first ever > transaction? I can use the "Transaction Report", instead and select which > account and periods I want, but then I do not see the opening and closing > balance. > > I am using the accounts to control the member's accounts of a sailing club > and wanted to use this report to produce member's statements. > Here's what I do for a small religious organization, which might work for your sailing club. I have a separate account for each person (actually two accounts in some cases because we keep track of "in kind" contributions, too) and give them a statement for the previous year. I created a transaction report, and selected the account(s) as necessary for a particular person. I set the date ranges to "Start of previous year" and "End of previous year." Obviously you could use "...Previous Quarter" or specific dates as needed. I also added appropriate subtotals on the Sorting tab. Then I used the Report Name field to put the person's name at the top. (It could also say Quarterly Contributions or 2019 Contributions or whatever.) After I got the report to display the information I wanted for that particular contributor, I saved the report using the Save Report Configuration button and renamed it generically, something like "Individual Contribution Report." Then when it's time to create individual statements, I open Reports --> Saved Report Configurations and choose the report I saved. One person's report is ready to go, so I print it. For each additional person, I change the report name and the account(s) it points to, and print. I repeat the process for each contributor. For the very small religious organization, the process doesn't take very long. The organization sends acknowledgement letters for designated gifts, but only sends annual giving reports to folks who have given more than some particular amount, I think $200. If your sailing club has more than a couple of dozen members, you might save some time in the long run by creating a transaction report containing data for the entire club, and exporting that data to a spreadsheet or database and use the data to generate a form letter for each person using something like LibreOffice's mail merge feature. Or LibreOffice Base's report writer, if you can puzzle it out. (Unfortunately LibreOffice's mail merge feature is unnecessarily fidgety. I use it every year to send out detailed renewal contracts for another organization. I keep detailed notes on how to make my contracts and letters work because it took me a long time to figure it out, years ago, and that particular feature has not really improved over time. That's one thing that, last time I used it, decades ago, Microsoft Word handled much more easily. But I was determined to support Open Source software.) > 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.
Re: [GNC] How to use Reminders?
Hi, Before I respond inline below, I just want to point out that GnuCash is not a calendaring system. If you want to remember things like your Boss' birthday or Valentine's day, there are much better tools (like your calendar!) to do that. So use those tools for those kinds of reminders. Having said that On Wed, December 9, 2020 1:10 pm, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote: > Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to Post > the bill you don't get reminded. Why do you not post the bill as soon as you get it? I mean, if you take the time to enter in your bill into the system, why not post it immediately? It's not like the bill is going to change over time, or be ammended. So in the immortal words of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"... "Don't Do That." Post your bill when you enter it. That's what the reminders are for, to pay the bill that you entered AND POSTED. > Problem with missing your boss's birthday > is you forgot what date it was. This is not a GnuCash problem; use your calendar for that. There are many options, like Orange and Evolution, which will do a MUCH better job. > So, how do you create a general purpose Reminders for various things in > GnuCash like..- Post Electric Bill Today (this reminds you to go find the > bill online or in the mail or wherever & post it) > - Boss's birthday is on April 1st- Valentines Day coming up on February > 14th- Leave check under door mat for yard guy None of these reminders belong in GnuCash. > I see the calendar view via clicking... Actions > Schedule > Edit > Scheduled Transactions > And the tabs & fields when I click "New" > And most of the fields are obvious except under Template Transaction... > I'm clueless about what I'm looking at...Is tat a template for...- a new > bill to be posted- a reminder to pay a bill- or what? The Template Transaction is the transaction you have scheduled. The template will be executed and posted into your accounts when the SX fires. The template can be anything (well, any transaction -- you cannot schedule a Business feature object like Invoice or Bill). I, personally, use them to schedule Loan (and Mortgage) payments, because it can approximate interest calculations. > And, what about a reminder that is not a financial transaction? > Questions: > 1 - Is there a way to create General Purpose Reminders in GnuCash? No. > 2 - Where can I find instructions on how to navigate to General Purpose > Reminders? Read up on Evolution (the program, not the Theory of). > 3 - Is there a document that explains the use of the various fields in > either... > a. the General Purpose Reminder or in > > b. Scheduled Transactions Reminders? There should be documentation the SX Editor, yes. Check the Help file. Oh, one more thing -- keep in mind that you can post-date a transaction. For example, I tell my bank to go pay my credit card $1234 on the 17th. Even though today is the 9th, I can enter a transaction dated the 17th from Bank -> CC for $1234, so GnuCash records that I set the bank billpay up to do that for me. Hope this helps, > Thanks for any help. > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ 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.
[GNC] Saving to MySQL
I have installed MySQL 8.0.22 on a Mac running Mojave (v10.14.6) with no changes to any configuration file. I would like to save my GnuCash file to this server but I am getting an error: The server at URL mysql://root@localhost/gnucash experienced an error or encountered bad or corrupt data. What to do? ___ 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.
[GNC] How to use Reminders?
Problem with "Bills Due" reminder popup is if you have forgotten to Post the bill you don't get reminded.Problem with missing your boss's birthday is you forgot what date it was. So, how do you create a general purpose Reminders for various things in GnuCash like..- Post Electric Bill Today (this reminds you to go find the bill online or in the mail or wherever & post it) - Boss's birthday is on April 1st- Valentines Day coming up on February 14th- Leave check under door mat for yard guy I see the calendar view via clicking... Actions > Schedule > Edit Scheduled Transactions And the tabs & fields when I click "New" And most of the fields are obvious except under Template Transaction... I'm clueless about what I'm looking at...Is tat a template for...- a new bill to be posted- a reminder to pay a bill- or what? And, what about a reminder that is not a financial transaction? Questions: 1 - Is there a way to create General Purpose Reminders in GnuCash? 2 - Where can I find instructions on how to navigate to General Purpose Reminders? 3 - Is there a document that explains the use of the various fields in either... a. the General Purpose Reminder or in b. Scheduled Transactions Reminders? Thanks for any help. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
On 12/9/20 9:25 AM, David Carlson wrote Yes, I already do leave the previous tab open, and, in fact, the previous tab is often the Since Last Run results tab, or sometimes a 'with children' tab which are not normally 'Jump to' destinations in the current program configuration. I suppose an immediate 'undo closed tab' a la Firefox would be nice, but then even some/most other browsers don't have this feature, not to mention other 'tabbed' apps. Just to stir up the muddy bottom, I too often forget to commit the transaction in the previous tab, which can mean getting a 'Save the Changed transaction' warning which doesn't reference exactly which transaction was changed, or whether it was the cat walking across the keyboard that changed it. I agree, that error message could be a bit more descriptive, and if I'm not mistaken, there is a bug report on it, or else I'm just recalling seeing it discussed before. Regards, Adrien ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Consolidated Transactions Report will not consolidate
Many thanks Adrien. I hope they fix it soon.
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 15:09, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Peter, I filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798039 with each
> of our error reports as attachments.
>
> I also made the guess that if the option to *not* make account names
> into URLs, (that exists in other reports) was added, or that code was
> blocked off, then this might avoid the error for now until a proper fix
> can be implemented.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 12/9/20 1:33 AM, Peter Jackson wrote:
> > Similar.
> > In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
> > 640:9 19 (for-each # …)
> > In unknown file:
> >18 (gncp-option-invoke-callback # …)
> > In c-interface.scm:
> > 24:4 17 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > 829:9 16 (catch #t # …)
> > In c-interface.scm:
> > 29:37 15 (_)
> > In unknown file:
> >14 (eval-string "(gnc:report-run 1)" #)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > 2312:4 13 (save-module-excursion #)
> > In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
> > 38:6 12 (read-and-eval # #:lang _)
> > In report-core.scm:
> > 693:4 11 (gnc:report-run _)
> > In c-interface.scm:
> > 66:2 10 (gnc:backtrace-if-exception _ . _)
> > 24:4 9 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > 829:9 8 (catch #t # …)
> > In c-interface.scm:
> > 28:40 7 (_)
> > In report-core.scm:
> > 695:29 6 (_)
> > 677:25 5 (gnc:report-render-html #< type: "2fe3b9833af0…> …)
> > In C:\Users\pj42u\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\consolidate-transactions.scm:
> >4049:21 4 (trep-renderer #< type: "2fe3b9833af044abb929a8…>)
> >2954:25 3 (make-split-table-comp _ # _ _ …)
> >1816:49 2 (add-split-row-comp #< col-headers: (("Dat…> …)
> > 574:23 1 (gnc:comp-html-transaction-anchor ("AILEEN JORDAN…" . #) …)
> > 563:0 0 (gnc:comp-register-guid _ _)
> >
> > In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: gnc-build-url
>
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Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
By the way, thanks to David H for triggering my discovery of the shortcut that eliminates one mouse action out of my work load. I think this discussion has brought up several interesting comments. Yes, I already do leave the previous tab open, and, in fact, the previous tab is often the Since Last Run results tab, or sometimes a 'with children' tab which are not normally 'Jump to' destinations in the current program configuration. Just to stir up the muddy bottom, I too often forget to commit the transaction in the previous tab, which can mean getting a 'Save the Changed transaction' warning which doesn't reference exactly which transaction was changed, or whether it was the cat walking across the keyboard that changed it. On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:53 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > On 12/9/20 7:43 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > There is no direct shortcut to jump to another account in the transaction > > if the focus is presently on the date, number, description or notes. > > I understand you were asking for a default, but have you successfully > tested a custom shortcut to activate the Jump button/menu-entry? > > > Actually, I would also like to be able to jump to the last account that I > > came from in my window history without needing to return to another > > transaction that contains the desired account or navigating to window > menu > > bar. > > As in leaving that register tab open and going back to it? > > Regards, > Adrien > > ___ > 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. > -- David Carlson ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Consolidated Transactions Report will not consolidate
Peter, I filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798039 with each
of our error reports as attachments.
I also made the guess that if the option to *not* make account names
into URLs, (that exists in other reports) was added, or that code was
blocked off, then this might avoid the error for now until a proper fix
can be implemented.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/9/20 1:33 AM, Peter Jackson wrote:
Similar.
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
640:9 19 (for-each # …)
In unknown file:
18 (gncp-option-invoke-callback # …)
In c-interface.scm:
24:4 17 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
829:9 16 (catch #t # …)
In c-interface.scm:
29:37 15 (_)
In unknown file:
14 (eval-string "(gnc:report-run 1)" #)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2312:4 13 (save-module-excursion #)
In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
38:6 12 (read-and-eval # #:lang _)
In report-core.scm:
693:4 11 (gnc:report-run _)
In c-interface.scm:
66:2 10 (gnc:backtrace-if-exception _ . _)
24:4 9 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
829:9 8 (catch #t # …)
In c-interface.scm:
28:40 7 (_)
In report-core.scm:
695:29 6 (_)
677:25 5 (gnc:report-render-html #< type: "2fe3b9833af0…> …)
In C:\Users\pj42u\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\consolidate-transactions.scm:
4049:21 4 (trep-renderer #< type: "2fe3b9833af044abb929a8…>)
2954:25 3 (make-split-table-comp _ # _ _ …)
1816:49 2 (add-split-row-comp #< col-headers: (("Dat…> …)
574:23 1 (gnc:comp-html-transaction-anchor ("AILEEN JORDAN…" . #) …)
563:0 0 (gnc:comp-register-guid _ _)
In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: gnc-build-url
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Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
On 12/9/20 7:43 AM, David Carlson wrote: There is no direct shortcut to jump to another account in the transaction if the focus is presently on the date, number, description or notes. I understand you were asking for a default, but have you successfully tested a custom shortcut to activate the Jump button/menu-entry? Actually, I would also like to be able to jump to the last account that I came from in my window history without needing to return to another transaction that contains the desired account or navigating to window menu bar. As in leaving that register tab open and going back to it? Regards, Adrien ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
There is no direct shortcut to jump to another account in the transaction if the focus is presently on the date, number, description or notes. Actually, I would also like to be able to jump to the last account that I came from in my window history without needing to return to another transaction that contains the desired account or navigating to window menu bar. On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 5:25 AM Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 8 Dec 2020, at 23:26, David Carlson > wrote: > > > > I have not looked at customization, I wanted to stay with pre-defined > > shortcuts and wondering why they disappeared in recent GnuCash > releases. I > > now see that they just got harder to find. Having first cut my teeth in > > CPM, then dos, I have grown tired of the constant retraining now required > > for every incremental release of every program in every OS ad nauseum. > > > > I too prefer using the keyboard over the mouse, but since we all have > > different preferences, it is good to try to make the program efficient > for > > as many users as possible. > > > > On my Mac, 2 brings up the whole multi-split transaction, then I use > the down-arrow to the split of interest, and hit J. > > Now I come to think of it, perhaps I customised to mean “Basic > Ledger”, for “Auto-Split Ledger” and for “Transaction > Journal” some time in the past. This would almost certainly have been the > result of a hint on this list. > > Is there something else that the OP wanted to achieve? > > Regards, > > Michael > > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Possible Jump Enhancement
> On 8 Dec 2020, at 23:26, David Carlson wrote: > > I have not looked at customization, I wanted to stay with pre-defined > shortcuts and wondering why they disappeared in recent GnuCash releases. I > now see that they just got harder to find. Having first cut my teeth in > CPM, then dos, I have grown tired of the constant retraining now required > for every incremental release of every program in every OS ad nauseum. > > I too prefer using the keyboard over the mouse, but since we all have > different preferences, it is good to try to make the program efficient for > as many users as possible. > On my Mac, 2 brings up the whole multi-split transaction, then I use the down-arrow to the split of interest, and hit J. Now I come to think of it, perhaps I customised to mean “Basic Ledger”, for “Auto-Split Ledger” and for “Transaction Journal” some time in the past. This would almost certainly have been the result of a hint on this list. Is there something else that the OP wanted to achieve? Regards, Michael ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Account report
On 08 December 2020 at 21:39, David Long said: > Hi, how can I select just the last few months for an "Account Report". I > am getting the whole history of the account from the first ever > transaction? I can use the "Transaction Report", instead and select which > account and periods I want, but then I do not see the opening and closing > balance. > > I am using the accounts to control the member's accounts of a sailing club > and wanted to use this report to produce member's statements. Use "filter by date" *before* running the report? Works for me. ___ 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.
