Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 16:10, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > You can also import invoices. So if you find the duplication-post workflow > tedious, you could set up a spreadsheet with the invoice data ready to > import. Then each dinner, edit the amounts, export from spreadsheet to CSV, >

Re: [GNC] Scrolling problem

2019-08-27 Thread David Carlson
Jonathan, Apparently you do not want to make additional effort to address your problem to make Gnucash usable. We cannot help you if you do not do your part in the debugging process. You have not mentioned whether this problem is in only one account view or every account view, whether it is

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can also import invoices. So if you find the duplication-post workflow tedious, you could set up a spreadsheet with the invoice data ready to import. Then each dinner, edit the amounts, export from spreadsheet to CSV, import the CSV into GnuCash. For the next dinner, bring up the

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> \On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 7:36 AM, Michael Hendry > wrote: > > > I was thinking Mike meant that there was something intrinsically incompatible > with cash-based accounting which happened when Business Features were added. > But you’re saying that it’s only if there are posted and unpaid

Re: [GNC] No Suitable backend was found

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2019 15:08:49 CEST schreef Human: > I had a backup and got back to that which opened fine in v3.6. I am not sure > why that file got corrupted. > > Thanks for all the help. I got upgraded as a result. I'm glad to hear that :) Geert

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 13:24, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/27/2019 2:40 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> I had understood from a recent response from Mike Novack that using an >> accrual-basis system for cash-basis organisation would be wrong. > "Wrong" is the wrong term. I did not say

Re: [GNC] No Suitable backend was found

2019-08-27 Thread Human
I had a backup and got back to that which opened fine in v3.6. I am not sure why that file got corrupted. Thanks for all the help. I got upgraded as a result. On 27 Aug 2019, 4:13 PM, at 4:13 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: >Hmm, if you kept backup files, you could go back through previous

[GNC] [MAINT] Unplanned reboot of code.gnucash.org this morning

2019-08-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, TL;DR: Code.gnucash.org stopped responding so I had to force-reboot it this morning; it appears that everything is back online. Long version: This morning @fell noticed that gncbot was missing from #gnucash and pinged me about it. I tried to login to code but couldn't -- the login wouldn't

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 09:41, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 1:40 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >> OK, so provided I’m careful to clean up any outstanding invoices before the >> end of the financial year, I can use the Business Features for a

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 8/27/2019 2:40 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: I had understood from a recent response from Mike Novack that using an accrual-basis system for cash-basis organisation would be wrong. "Wrong" is the wrong term. I did not say that. I said that adjustments might have to be made (the books kept on

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread elvis
If #1 one, that is quite messy, yes, and you’ll need lots of manual transactions and some sort of searchable/filterable tag system as I described previously. (to avoid hundreds or thousands of accounts and sub-accounts) But if #2, then the business features can handle that easily with

Re: [GNC] Scrolling problem

2019-08-27 Thread Colin Law
Forwarding to the list as you accidentally replied to me instead of the list. You do not seem to have replied to the previous email from Adrien. Colin On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 12:36, Jonathan Silvey wrote: > > I'm sorry if no one can solve this problem. I will probably have to abandon > Gnucash

Re: [GNC] No Suitable backend was found

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 14:37:58 CEST schreef Human: > Please see attached. Unfortunately there isn't much data in the trace file. The first line is common when you haven't installed Finance::Quote for online price retrieval. You can ignore that. The two subsequent lines on the other hand

Re: [GNC] No Suitable backend was found

2019-08-27 Thread Human
Hi I am using GnuCash 2.6.7 and file format is xml. I need to recover this file, is there anyway to do so? Thanks! On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:47 PM Geert Janssens wrote: > Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 14:37:58 CEST schreef Human: > > Please see attached. > > Unfortunately there isn't much data

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 08:20, elvis wrote: > > >>> If #1 one, that is quite messy, yes, and you’ll need lots of manual >>> transactions and some sort of searchable/filterable tag system as I >>> described previously. (to avoid hundreds or thousands of accounts and >>> sub-accounts) >>> >>>

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 1:40 AM, Michael Hendry > wrote: > > > OK, so provided I’m careful to clean up any outstanding invoices before the > end of the financial year, I can use the Business Features for a cash-basis > organisation. Not necessary to clean up any outstanding

Re: [GNC] No Suitable backend was found

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Hmm, if you kept backup files, you could go back through previous versions to determine where it went wrong. And then compare the good backup with your bad file. It may also be useful to doublecheck the file you try to open really is an xml file (though probably compressed). To do so, first

Re: [GNC] List subjects

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I found an old digest in my archive while cleaning up some stuff. Here’s what the top of it looked like: Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to gnucash-user@gnucash.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 26 Aug 2019, at 17:27, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 3:43 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >>> And I see that your organization does pledges. Here in the US, pledges ARE >>> receivable,but only according to the terms of the pledge << thus if a >>>

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 03:36, doncram wrote: > > In your case, Michael Hendry, are there other persons who need or work with > some of the information? No, I’m playing in a one-man-band - which is (mostly) a good thing! > Surely then there are communication / information > sharing needs, which