[GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

[Peter Wu]

Hello,
Gnucash community.  Hope everyone is doing well and having a good time.  Two 
questions:


  1.  Beside the mailing-list.  Does anyone know a forum where we can ask and 
discuss issues?  I feel it maybe easier to search/discuss/answer questions than 
a mailing list.
  2.  As the email subject says.  Attached qfx file does not work.  I have 
personal Bank of American checking and credit card.  They all work.  I 
downloaded the file by using the “Web Connect for Quicken 2018 and above”.

I have a suspicion why it is not working.  Maybe it is because a combined qfx 
file.  BofA organized their business account in a group fashion.  They made a 
parent account and each credit card holder as a child account.  Their personal 
account doesn’t follow this parent-child account structure.

Does anyone has a solution for this kind of qfx file?

Best,
Peter


stmt (13).qfx
Description: stmt (13).qfx
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Re: [GNC] Issues with Payables

[cyberforester]

I knew there was something I was omitting from my question...

What I have done is create the invoice and then subsequently process
the payment or receipt against the invoice.   I have then noticed that
I have entered the receipt or payment date incorrectly and then changed
the date in the Bank Account Register.

On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 21:24 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> How are you entering these payments? That should be done with the 
> 'Process Payments' feature where you select the document
> (bill/invoice) 
> to be paid, enter a payment amount, and select the source/destination
> account.
> 
> For existing transactions you can right-click them and choose Edit 
> Payment to assign it properly.
> 
> If you are importing the payment transactions you'll have to 'Edit 
> Payment' for each one after import.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 5/2/22 3:18 AM, Grant Alexander wrote:
> > I am having problems figuring out how to solve the following
> > How to I correct the error messages "Payment has no owner and
> > Invalid
> > Txn Type?
> > 
> > Likewise with the Receivable Aging
> 
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[davidcousens49]

Chris,

The behaviour of the account selection in the transfer column in GC 4.10 on
Linux Mint is as follows:

When you first click on the split of the transaction a down arrow appears at thr
right of the column.

If you click on the down arrow, the list of transaction is displayed and its
window overlays the transfer debit,credit and balance columns and the column
borders are no longer present and there is a scroll bar to the right which you
can use to scroll through the accounts. 

The arrow to the right will now appear as an up arrow and clicking on it will
close the account selection window without making a selection.

At this point, if you click on one of the entries in this window, it will become
the transfer account for the transaction and the account and  selection window
will close and that selection will be shown in the transfer entry.  

I use a dark theme on my desktop and in GnuCash normally and at first glance, it
is very difficult to tell the difference between the account selection pop-up
and the window behind it in that theme.
I'm not sure whether it is more distinguishable in the normal GnuCash default
colour scheme  as if I change the preference the popup still comes up in the
dark theme. I don't know if it is possible in GTK but maybe a border or border
of a different colour or slightly different background colour may be of
assistance to emphasize which window is the popup as it overlays the last 4
columns exactly.

Hope this helps clarifies how the window works. I don't remember any problems
with this when i was using GC4.4. Can you confirm if you get it to work this way
and if my experience is general I will update the help on the window to make it
clearer

David Cousens 

On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 15:41 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> >Chris,
> > 
> >Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
> >points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
> >different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but
> >I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
> > 
> I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
> When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.
> 
> My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
> of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-
> 
> I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
> is at the moment.
> 
> While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
> account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
> 'Imbalance' account.
> 
> The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.
> 
> The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
> seen this problem before though.
> 
> I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.
> 
> 
> 
> What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
> list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.
> 
> 

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[GNC] question on reconciliations

[gnu]

I have been using gnucash for some time and just upgraded from v3 to v4

 

On reconciliations under v3, when I had an offsetting transaction and I
cleared one side, it would automagically mark the offset as well (they were
both sub-accounts under the primary account).

 

V4 does not seem to be doing this. Am I missing something? Have I screwed up
and need to reinstall clean? Has this process changed?

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Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

[Chris Green]

... and further, reading the following:-

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations

Has shown me several ways to achieve what I want, the man page for
GnuCash doesn't mention the many, useful, environment variables that
are documented in the above.

I think I can stop being so annoying now! :-)

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Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

[Chris Green]

> 
> There are further sub-directories to sum of these.  It makes it very easy for 
> me

sum = 'some' :-)

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Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> So you've chosen an organization method that creates the problem but then
> ask for how to avoid it? The answer seems pretty obvious to me:
> 
It's the organisation that I use for just about everything else and
it's the way many other people work.  From my point of view GnuCash is
a latecomer to an existing set up.


> Don't start a new file each year.
> 
Auditors prefer it that way, plus it means that I don't have to change
report options when I want 'this year' rather than 'last year'.  Yes,
I know this (never closing the data file) is the normal way of doing
it in GnuCash but it really doesn't fit in well with the rest of my
existing system organisation and I was hoping GnuCash would be
flexible enough to work the way I'd prefer.


> But before that, to your original question, what files exactly in
> ~/.local/... are you concerned about? One rarely needs to mess with them.
> 
I'm not messing with them directly.


> Concerning the configuration settings, particularly reporting period, that
> problem too goes away with a single file rather than one for each year.
> 
No it doesn't! :-)  If I set the reporting period to, for example,
01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020 then every report is for that period.  If I
then want a report for 2021 I have to go and change the reporting
period.  If I have a data file that is for 2020 only then I never have
to change the reporting period.

Yes, I could save the reports but then one would end up with a huge
number of them after a few years.

> 
> What is an example of what you'd expect/like to see instead?
> 
Keep the information like reporting period in the data file to which
it relates.


> And is something like 'building20.gnucash' really that clumsy?
> 
> How about 'building_20.gnucash' or 'building-20.gnucash'?
> 
> Are 2 or 3 characters really that much longer? (4 or 5 if whole year is
> used)
> 
> How is adding the year to the name 'redundant'—because it is already in a
> directory name? How often do you look at directory/file lists anyway?
> 
My organisation depends on directory structure. 

For example I store documentation in a directory called (surprise!)
doc, it has sub-directories:-

apexLodge   dia  family  houseHome  maxCovidpcc  
shareCertificates
boating diy  garden  hsbc   maxmum  photography  
telecoms
car doorsgov labels motorcycle  plumbing travel
chrisCovid  electrical   health  lettersnationwide  postEtc.
computerelectronics  hmrcmaterials  paypal  recipes

There are further sub-directories to sum of these.  It makes it very easy for me
find documents such as instruction manuals, copies of passports, bank details, 
etc.
The documents can be in all sorts of formats, text, PDF, word processor, etc.

> This isn't a 'GnuCash' problem. You could encounter this with *any* file
> type and app.
> 
Tell me *any* other program that stores information about a file in
the way that GnuCash does.  To store information about a file in a
generic directory the way that GnuCash does is very rare.  Storing
universal settings like this makes sense, it provides defaults for the
way one wants an application to work, but settings like the dates
applying to a particular file should be stored with (or in) that file.

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Re: [GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

[Adrien Monteleone]

So you've chosen an organization method that creates the problem but 
then ask for how to avoid it? The answer seems pretty obvious to me:


Don't start a new file each year.

But before that, to your original question, what files exactly in 
~/.local/... are you concerned about? One rarely needs to mess with them.


Concerning the configuration settings, particularly reporting period, 
that problem too goes away with a single file rather than one for each year.



What is an example of what you'd expect/like to see instead?

And is something like 'building20.gnucash' really that clumsy?

How about 'building_20.gnucash' or 'building-20.gnucash'?

Are 2 or 3 characters really that much longer? (4 or 5 if whole year is 
used)


How is adding the year to the name 'redundant'—because it is already in 
a directory name? How often do you look at directory/file lists anyway?


You've chosen to 'artificially' break up your GnuCash file, then 
stripped out most unique identifying information, and now you see the 
problem but don't want to revisit those decisions.


One way or another you'll need to decide which is more important to you: 
 Your chosen method of organization, or the filename readability and 
length.


This isn't a 'GnuCash' problem. You could encounter this with *any* file 
type and app.


Regards,
Adrien

-p.s. I've done this very thing myself a few times trying to settle on 
the best method of organization. I ended up accepting dates in my file 
names, though of course I could edit the file meta to fix this if 
desired and then clean up the names. I felt it better to keep the 
original crtime, which isn't readily viewable in a detailed listing anyway.


On 5/3/22 11:37 AM, Chris Green wrote:

GnuCash names files in ~/.local/share/gnucash/books according to the
filename of the GnuCash data file.  This is a bit of a problem for me
because I expect to be able to have multiple GnuCash data files with
the same name in different places.

For example I keep church building accounts in a file called
'building.gnucash' with the accounts for each year in a different
sub-directory of my church accounts system.

I.e. there are:-

 /home/chris/pcc/2020/building.gnucash
 /home/chris/pcc/2021/building.gnucash
 /home/chris/pcc/2022/building.gnucash

Is there any way around this problem?  As it is various configuration
settings get changed as I move round my accounts, in particular the
reporting period.

Keeping all the church's accounts, and correspondence and other files
for one particular year makes sense for me (and the auditor!).

I *could* add the year to the GnuCash data file name but that does
make it rather long and clumsy, and it makes for redundant information
which Mr Codd doesn't like! :-)



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[GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?

[Chris Green]

GnuCash names files in ~/.local/share/gnucash/books according to the
filename of the GnuCash data file.  This is a bit of a problem for me
because I expect to be able to have multiple GnuCash data files with
the same name in different places.

For example I keep church building accounts in a file called
'building.gnucash' with the accounts for each year in a different
sub-directory of my church accounts system.

I.e. there are:-

/home/chris/pcc/2020/building.gnucash
/home/chris/pcc/2021/building.gnucash
/home/chris/pcc/2022/building.gnucash

Is there any way around this problem?  As it is various configuration
settings get changed as I move round my accounts, in particular the
reporting period.  

Keeping all the church's accounts, and correspondence and other files
for one particular year makes sense for me (and the auditor!).

I *could* add the year to the GnuCash data file name but that does
make it rather long and clumsy, and it makes for redundant information
which Mr Codd doesn't like! :-)

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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Chris,

You can install the latest version via following these instructions from 
David Cousens:


https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-April/100771.html

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/3/22 10:45 AM, Chris Green wrote:

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:05:26PM +0100, david whiting wrote:

Yes, I seem to recall having an issue like that a while ago with an
older version, and it might have been version 4.4, but it has been
fixed for quite some time now. Chris, could you upgrade to a more
recent version? At the very least you should be able to test this by
installing the flatpak version. See this page
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak and go down to the section
called "Regular releases at flathub.org".


I'm not keen on flatpak, a bit like snap it introduces a whole can of
worms of its own.  I have explicitly *removed* snap from my xubuntu
systems even though its part of the default distribution now.

However, I could (well I will soon) upgrade to xubuntu 22.04 and that
will take me to GnuCash 4.8 so that should show whether I'm seeing a
bug in GnuCash (or at least one that has been fixed since 4.4).



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Re: [GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

[Adrien Monteleone]

The Transaction Report can get you the info broken down that way, but 
not quite arranged in 'landscape'/'spreadsheet' fashion.


You can set the primary sort order by Account, and then secondary sort 
by Date. This will group transactions by account and then list them in 
date order and you can get a subtotal by account if you want. (I think 
you an also get a subtotal by date for each month/year accordingly)


You can swap that sorting to date-first, but that will likely be messier 
to read.


Your only other option I can think of would be to export such a report 
by date only (accounts are still visible) and then manually manipulate 
after importing in a spreadsheet.


Regards,
Adrien

On 5/3/22 10:53 AM, Chris Green wrote:

My auditor wants a transaction report showing transactions in date
order one per line with the transaction amounts in columns according
to account name.

Is there anything in GnuCash that can do this?

The closest I can find is the Income Statment (Multicolumn) in the
Experimental Reports section.  However it's the wrong way round, I
want dates down the page and accounts across the page.



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Re: [GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

[Christopher Lam]

I guess the report intends to show the inputs and outputs into the company,
you could use the income and GST statement report. Inputs and sales, and
outputs are purchases. You can ignore the tax accounts. Then select
detailed sales and purchase accounts in the display options.

On Tue, 3 May 2022, 11:53 pm Chris Green,  wrote:

> My auditor wants a transaction report showing transactions in date
> order one per line with the transaction amounts in columns according
> to account name.
>
> Is there anything in GnuCash that can do this?
>
> The closest I can find is the Income Statment (Multicolumn) in the
> Experimental Reports section.  However it's the wrong way round, I
> want dates down the page and accounts across the page.
>
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[GNC] Is there a report with transactions by date and accounts in columns?

[Chris Green]

My auditor wants a transaction report showing transactions in date
order one per line with the transaction amounts in columns according
to account name.

Is there anything in GnuCash that can do this?

The closest I can find is the Income Statment (Multicolumn) in the
Experimental Reports section.  However it's the wrong way round, I
want dates down the page and accounts across the page.

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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:05:26PM +0100, david whiting wrote:
> Yes, I seem to recall having an issue like that a while ago with an
> older version, and it might have been version 4.4, but it has been
> fixed for quite some time now. Chris, could you upgrade to a more
> recent version? At the very least you should be able to test this by
> installing the flatpak version. See this page
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak and go down to the section
> called "Regular releases at flathub.org".
> 
I'm not keen on flatpak, a bit like snap it introduces a whole can of
worms of its own.  I have explicitly *removed* snap from my xubuntu
systems even though its part of the default distribution now.

However, I could (well I will soon) upgrade to xubuntu 22.04 and that
will take me to GnuCash 4.8 so that should show whether I'm seeing a
bug in GnuCash (or at least one that has been fixed since 4.4).

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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:01:16AM -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> Sometime in the 4.x series of releases a new method of auto filling the
> account name was introduced where you just start typing part of the account
> name and when your text matches existing text it is supposed to autofill
> the name.  I think that was supposed to leave the old drop down list from
> typing letters and colons method in place. I do not have a release recent
> enough to test that, but there could be a bug, perhaps, if you happen to
> use certain special characters or an unusual font or character set.
> 
Ah, I think you have lead me to the fix, or at least a workaround.

If I actually delete (or partially delete) the account name in the
transfer column then I get offered the nearest match account name(s).


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Re: [GNC] Minor issue that's becoming an irritant...

[Dustin Henning]

Hey, I'm not on Windows anymore and don't have a multimonitor setup 
anyway, so I can't help you directly, but I might be able to point you 
in the right direction if you want to try some more searching.  You may 
be associating this specifically to GnuCash because you do not use any 
other applications built for Gnome.  Gnome is an open-source desktop 
environment, and I think it is run in the background when you use 
applications made for it on Windows.  If I am correct that none of your 
other applications are built for Gnome, you may be able to broaden your 
search to Gnome on windows instead of GnuCash.  If you can then 
determine that you need to change some specific Gnome setting(s) to 
resolve this issue, it is possible that you could also subsequently find 
the location of your environment's relevant configuration files and 
change the setting(s) there.


On 4/29/22 1:10 PM, Christopher Chase wrote:

Hi,

I'm a brand new user to GnuCash.  I have a 3 monitor setup and GnuCash
*INSISTS* on opening on the left monitor.  It seems like a minor issue, but
it's getting really annoying.

I'm using Windows 10.  I've googled how to get an app to open on a specific
monitor, but it doesn't work.  I've verified which monitor is primary for
Windows.  I've uninstalled GnuCash, deleted every hidden directory and file
I could find in AppData, cleaned out the registry, etc., even disconnected
the other monitors before reinstalling.  Once I reconnect all the monitors,
GnuCash opens on the left monitor.  I don't have this problem with any
other app.
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[david whiting]

Yes, I seem to recall having an issue like that a while ago with an
older version, and it might have been version 4.4, but it has been
fixed for quite some time now. Chris, could you upgrade to a more
recent version? At the very least you should be able to test this by
installing the flatpak version. See this page
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak and go down to the section
called "Regular releases at flathub.org".

David W

On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 16:01, David Carlson  wrote:
>
> Sometime in the 4.x series of releases a new method of auto filling the
> account name was introduced where you just start typing part of the account
> name and when your text matches existing text it is supposed to autofill
> the name.  I think that was supposed to leave the old drop down list from
> typing letters and colons method in place. I do not have a release recent
> enough to test that, but there could be a bug, perhaps, if you happen to
> use certain special characters or an unusual font or character set.
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2022, 9:42 AM Chris Green  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> > >Chris,
> > >
> > >Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
> > >points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
> > >different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember,
> > but
> > >I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
> > >
> > I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
> > When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.
> >
> > My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
> > of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-
> >
> > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
> > is at the moment.
> >
> > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
> > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
> > 'Imbalance' account.
> >
> > The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.
> >
> > The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
> > seen this problem before though.
> >
> > I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.
> >
> >
> >
> > What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
> > list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.
> >
> >
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[David Carlson]

Sometime in the 4.x series of releases a new method of auto filling the
account name was introduced where you just start typing part of the account
name and when your text matches existing text it is supposed to autofill
the name.  I think that was supposed to leave the old drop down list from
typing letters and colons method in place. I do not have a release recent
enough to test that, but there could be a bug, perhaps, if you happen to
use certain special characters or an unusual font or character set.

On Tue, May 3, 2022, 9:42 AM Chris Green  wrote:

> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> >Chris,
> >
> >Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
> >points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
> >different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember,
> but
> >I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
> >
> I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
> When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.
>
> My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
> of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-
>
> I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
> is at the moment.
>
> While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
> account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
> 'Imbalance' account.
>
> The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.
>
> The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
> seen this problem before though.
>
> I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.
>
>
>
> What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
> list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.
>
>
> --
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Gyle McCollam]

I should have mentioned this has to do with splits in split transaction, 
because of course you can delete the entire transaction while in the account.  
Just wanted to clarify.


Thank You,
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From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Gyle McCollam 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 10:50 AM
To: Chris Green ; Michael or Penny Novack 
; gnucash-user@gnucash.org 

Subject: Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

Michael,
You can't delete the debit or credit associated with that specific account 
while in that account, but you can change it to another account.  If you change 
it to another account, when you commit by using the enter key, it will 
disappear from the current account (provided the entry you changed was for this 
account) and be placed in the "new" account.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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gmccol...@live.com   email


From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Chris Green 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 10:41 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
>points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
>different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but
>I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
>
I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.

My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-

I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
is at the moment.

While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
'Imbalance' account.

The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.

The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
seen this problem before though.

I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.



What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.


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Re: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

[Dustin Henning]

It used to work the way you want a long time ago, but it was so long ago 
that it might require a feature request now.  I have a bug open, though, 
and they have provided a workaround of sorts in the latest versions.  
There is now an "Append" checkbox in the transaction matcher, which will 
keep your notes even though it adds the other extraneous data that used 
to be dropped with U+C.  Unfortunately, the "Append" option uses a 
"pipe" separator even fields are blank (I always left the description 
blank so it would show the statement info and typed what I wanted in 
notes), so you get the "pipe" ahead of your description in addition to a 
"pipe" and extraneous data that isn't even technically in the OFX/QFX 
file after your description.


If you want to review the bug report, it's here: 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798296


On 4/29/22 8:09 PM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user wrote:
There is an issue which has been bugging me for some time with regard 
to OFX/QFX imports: At least from my credit cards/financial 
institution, when data is imported it overwrites the existing data in 
both the "Description" and the "Notes" field...and, nine times out of 
ten, the QFX "Notes" field is essentially a rehash of the 
"Description" field.


I like to leave transaction identification information in the "Notes" 
field so that months later (Tax time!) I can recall the exact purpose 
of a purchase without having to do a search through my email logs or 
PayPal transactions in order to identify what that eBay purchase was 
actually for. But at present any information I put there gets 
overwritten unless I remember to manually re-enter it after the 
transaction clears when I do an import from my financial institution.


I'd like to have a switch somewhere in "Settings" where you could 
customize the QFX (and possibly QIF, although I don't use that much) 
import so that if the Notes field is non-blank it does not get 
overwritten by the imported data. Perhaps there already is such a 
switch and I've just missed it; if so could someone enlighten me? 
Otherwise I'd like to make this a formal feature request; how do I go 
about doing that?


Eric H. Bowen


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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Gyle McCollam]

Michael,
You can't delete the debit or credit associated with that specific account 
while in that account, but you can change it to another account.  If you change 
it to another account, when you commit by using the enter key, it will 
disappear from the current account (provided the entry you changed was for this 
account) and be placed in the "new" account.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

609.680.2326 Mobile

gmccol...@live.com   email


From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Chris Green 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 10:41 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
>points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
>different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but
>I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
>
I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.

My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-

I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
is at the moment.

While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
'Imbalance' account.

The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.

The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
seen this problem before though.

I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.



What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.


--
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +, Gyle McCollam wrote:
>Chris,
> 
>Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
>points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
>different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but
>I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
> 
I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.

My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-

I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
is at the moment.

While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
'Imbalance' account.

The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.

The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
seen this problem before though.

I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.



What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.


-- 
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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:25:49AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
> > transaction?  If so how should one do it?
> > 
> > If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
> > the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts.  Should I get
> > the list there?  I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
> > seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
> > doesn't.
> > 
> > I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.
> > 
> I will be using the formal terms "debit" and "credit" as the supposedly more
> user friendly terms vary with the sort of account and this matter does not
> depend on that.
> 
> You cannot change the account associated with a debit or a credit of a
> transaction while IN that account. Since there will always be at least two
> accounts associated with a transaction it will always be possible to go to
> that transaction in another account and you would then have a list to change
> THIS account there.  Do it that way until 
> 
> If you have become familiar with entering "splits" you will have learned to
> enter transactions in the "journal view". That's how we all entered
> transactions in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. We then
> had to manually post these entries to the ledger accounts. Gnucash does the
> "posting" automatically when you enter transactions this way. If you are
> viewing the transaction in "journal view" you CAN change any of the accounts
> using the drop down list, even the one you were in when you entered journal
> view (split)
> 
The whole problem is that I don't get the drop down list!  I get the
up-arrow or down-arrow that indicates it's going to appear, but it
doesn't appear.  As I said it does *sometimes* appear but I can't
understand why it does appear sometimes but mostly it doesn't appear.

I suspect this is actually a bug, I think I reported it quite a long
time ago as an inability to select the Transfer account at all when
entering a transaction.  This is basically the same problem except
that I'm wanting to change the Transfer account.

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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 5/3/2022 9:47 AM, Chris Green wrote:

Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
transaction?  If so how should one do it?

If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts.  Should I get
the list there?  I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
doesn't.

I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.

I will be using the formal terms "debit" and "credit" as the supposedly 
more user friendly terms vary with the sort of account and this matter 
does not depend on that.


You cannot change the account associated with a debit or a credit of a 
transaction while IN that account. Since there will always be at least 
two accounts associated with a transaction it will always be possible to 
go to that transaction in another account and you would then have a list 
to change THIS account there.  Do it that way until 


If you have become familiar with entering "splits" you will have learned 
to enter transactions in the "journal view". That's how we all entered 
transactions in the old days of pen and ink on paper bookkeeping. We 
then had to manually post these entries to the ledger accounts. Gnucash 
does the "posting" automatically when you enter transactions this way. 
If you are viewing the transaction in "journal view" you CAN change any 
of the accounts using the drop down list, even the one you were in when 
you entered journal view (split)


Michael D Novack



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Re: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Gyle McCollam]

Chris,
Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it points down) 
you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a different account.  
It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but I will say that I am using 
windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

609.680.2326 Mobile

gmccol...@live.com   email


From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Chris Green 
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 9:47 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: [GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
transaction?  If so how should one do it?

If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts.  Should I get
the list there?  I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
doesn't.

I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.

--
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[GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[Chris Green]

Is it possible to change the account in the Transfer column of a
transaction?  If so how should one do it?

If I click on the entry it's highlighted and an up arrow ^ appears in
the Transfer column but no list of alternative accounts.  Should I get
the list there?  I'm sure I sometimes have got the list but there
seems no rhyme nor reason why it sometimes appears and sometimes
doesn't.

I'm running GnuCash 4.4 on xubuntu Linux.

-- 
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