Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 24/02/2019 15:40, Colin Law wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 15:21, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote: That is the point, dear, you may not have said a swearword but what you are supporting is shameful. Please don't call me dear. That is almost as bad as labelling me a Trump supporter. I don't

Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 07/03/2019 23:42, David Cousens wrote: I backup all user data including hidden directories on my hard disk to an NAS so no matter where it is I have it copied. I do full backups monthly with daily incrementals and usually retain them for 3 months these days. I off load the backups onto USB

Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 08/03/2019 14:49, Derek Atkins wrote: Adrien Monteleone writes: Separating preferences for reports is, I suspect, more useful to a multi-user environment, which GnuCash does not support, but can be useful for a single user who keeps books for multiple entities that are all in the same

Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 07/03/2019 20:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Derek, I don’t disagree with your assessments of what certainly *can* (and maybe even, more often than not) be specific to a book rather than a user. I was thinking more along the lines of what someone *might* most likely want to carry over

Re: [GNC-dev] Transactions vs Splits

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 05/03/2019 12:57, David Cousens wrote: I will get to testing the import of these transactions either tomorrow morning or Thursday. I don't know yet whether it is possible to import them in the multiline format with 2 or more splits yet. Yes, it is possible but you have to be very careful

Re: [GNC-dev] budget.scm augmented to show ytd

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 03/03/2019 12:14, Christopher Lam wrote: for augmented budget report, which computes accumulated budget amounts instead of periodic budget amounts. https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/maint-budget-refactor for the whole repo

[GNC-dev] balance sheet review

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
balance-sheet.scm is a core accounting report in gnc, an essential in accounting as it allows the person presenting or viewing a report on a set of tx to show a full set of accounts or a subset. It generally does sums well. it is also core in that a number of other reports are built on top

Re: [GNC-dev] CSV Import Format

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 01/03/2019 22:42, Geert Janssens wrote: Yes. The matcher should only be needed in the even more restricted case that no transfer account is set. In my experience the matcher is OK if you ignore it and understand the tx. You should just import it and fix it by hand, presuming the

Re: [GNC-dev] CSV Import Format

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 01/03/2019 22:26, David Cousens wrote: Geert, I can feed you what I've done so far with the multiline, double currency transaction. My apologies for taking so long. My wife is a poet and I'm the publishing company these days. She handed me the latest book of poetry to edit and typeset for

Re: [GNC-dev] CSV Import Format

2019-03-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 01/03/2019 11:39, Geert Janssens wrote: I am aware multi-currency import is currently flawed. Having a detailed overview of what fails/what extra is needed will help a lot in setting this straight. Meneer, the import and multi currency are like the boy with his thumb in a dyke being asked