[GNC] Charles Schwab investment accounts and OFX

2020-07-27 Thread Daffy Duck
Hello, I added a new user for my Charles Schwab investment account, and it retrieved accounts and found my account. I then matched it when an existing mutual fund account that I created in gnucash. However, when I try to retrieve transactions, it says: AqBanking v6.1.4.0stable Sending jobs to

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread David Carlson
Michael, Exactly. The QFX file only contains the information that the bank would put on your monthly account statement along with the necessary infrastructure to identify which bank created the file and which account and the time frame which the file describes and sometimes some additional

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Fross, Michael
Hello David, In looking at the QFX file, I only see one side of the transaction. This file has 3 distinct transactions ( records) that are not related and only one account ID is listed. Michael On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 5:56 PM David Carlson wrote: > There is another use case which GnuCash

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
I am not proficient in css but the is a lot that has changed in the naming of many of the tags. Attached is an example of some of the slight change in names. Nowonder they did not work. The one you posted I had working for 3.91 but the tag names jhas been updated If someone from the Dev team

Re: [GNC] How to find un-posted invoices (was: Re: BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice)

2020-07-27 Thread Bruce Irving via gnucash-user
Thanks, Adrien I found that out yesterday when I created an invoice but didn't post it I'll live with it until I can track them all down.  My goal is to eventually delete the AR module. Bruce Try Business > Customer > Find Invoice, then set criteria to `Is posted?` and uncheck the box. (without

Re: [GNC] Report error: advanced-portfolio (Lipp F.)

2020-07-27 Thread John Bonnett
On 27/07/2020 11:56 pm, "Lipp F." wrote: Just installed 4.1 on Windows 10 and advanced portfolio report throws an error. The report was working fine on 3.10. Here it is: Report error An error occurred while running the report. In c-interface.scm: 24:4 19 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread David Carlson
There is another use case which GnuCash also needs to handle. Some OFX files may contain both sides of an inter-account transfer between two accounts within the same bank because the OFX file can include multiple accounts. In fact, I do that on a regular basis at one of my banks. I do not test

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread David Carlson
Fross, Michael, Are you trying to match bank payments to credit card accounts from QFX/OFX downloads from both sides? If so, the FITID's might accidentally match but the FID and/or BANKID and/or ACCTID of the bank/credit card transaction split line in the import file should be different from

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Fross, Michael
Got it. Thanks. Now I understand why it used to work. And I certainly wouldn't expect GnuCash to correct a bank's horrible behavior. I'll keep an eye on the FITID and see if that's what they are doing. Thanks everyone for your help. Much appreciated. Michael On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 5:13 PM

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Jean Laroche
Ah, OK I get it now! Yes, you should check that from one day to the next, the FTID returned by citibank remains the same (for the same transaction). If not, then that's going to be a problem. What has changed recently with GC is that it not will not match a new imported transaction with one

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread John Ralls
No. Section 3.2.3 of the OFX 1.6 spec: "An FI (or its Service Provider) assigns an to uniquely identify a financial transaction that can appear in an account statement. Its primary purpose is to allow a client to detect duplicate responses. Open Financial Exchange intends for use in statement

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Chris Graves
Here ya go. /* This is an example GTK CSS file that can be used with Gnucash. Simply copy this file to the location specified below according to your platform and then restart gnucash. - Windows: CSIDL_APPDATA/GnuCash (or the default is users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash) -

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
Chris can you upload a copy here I want to compare with my GNC 3.91 custom CSS that I had and worked, maybe they changed the css tags I I have installed Flatpack GNC, cannot find a css for it I spent weeks before customizing my own before Having issues with the concept using the gtkinspector

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Fross, Michael
Hi Christopher. Alas I do not keep the QFX files. I'll hang on to them for now and see if the FIDID does change. On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 4:20 PM Christopher Lam wrote: > As I understand the ofx spec*, the fitid should be an invariant for the > bank and account. By any chance do you have older

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Fross, Michael
Hi Jean. Let me try to better explain my issue. On most days, I download QFX files from my Checking and Credit Card accounts and import them. In this way I clear transactions and I can see what's going on. The next day I'll do so again, and the importer skips those that have already been

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I suppose mileage varies. In my experience, I've seen a case or two (different businesses) where the bank had another signatory appear in person to sign the check before they would honor it. If your bank offers this protection, I'd certainly bring it to their attention when they aren't

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Christopher Lam
As I understand the ofx spec*, the fitid should be an invariant for the bank and account. By any chance do you have older qfx files to compare? * https://www.ofx.net/downloads.html On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 4:34 am Fross, Michael, wrote: > Thanks Jean / John for your thoughts. There is a register

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Jean Laroche
There's a misunderstanding here. This is what GC does: - It looks at the OFX transaction, which always has an FITID. - IF GC sees this FITID in one of the register transactions, it skips the OFX transaction, because it's already been imported (when a transaction gets imported from the ofx, the

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Dale Alspach
I would not put much faith in requiring two signatures. It is unlikely that the bank is actually paying any attention to this requirement. I learned this from a former bank employee who was on the board of a nonprofit I work with. In other words it is an internal control only. Dale On Mon, Jul

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Chris Graves
There is an example .css file which ships with Gnucash. On macOS, it’s located here: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css > On Jul 27, 2020, at 7:56 AM, GTI .H wrote: > > I would like it too. but for that we have to run the GtkInspector ( >

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Fross, Michael
Thanks Jean / John for your thoughts. There is a register entry that matches, IMHO, very closely. I increased the Match Display Threshold from 1 to 3, and then to 6 (which appears to be the highest value allowed.) Every transaction from the import says "Match Missing." Digging around a bit,

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
All but one business or non-profit I've worked for or with had a two-person signature rule. (over a certain small amount) One still writes paper checks to keep that standard. (not sure myself how that is handled electronically) For the one business that allowed only one signature for any

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Will, That's a basic tenet of access control. (part of accounting itself, and is in my text book too.) The the person with access to funds (of any kind) should not be the person who accounts for those funds. (but should of course provide all the required documentation for what they do with

Re: [GNC] Petty Cash (was Re: BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice)

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Will, of course, get official advice, but I can speak to my prior experience dealing with Petty Cash and what were taught to me as 'best practices'. 1. All receipts of physical cash should be kept separate of Petty Cash and deposited in full, coins and all. Ideally, these should be placed in

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-07-27 Thread John Ralls
Samantha, Regardless of the shell you must enclose paths with spaces in quotes, e.g. cd "c:\Program Files (86)\gnucash\bin" You can use ' instead of " if you like. You can also start typing and use tab completion, for example type cd c:\prog and the shell will change it to cd 'C:\Program

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-07-27 Thread Samantha Payn
Sorry John (and everyone). I can't get it to accept (x86) now: C:\Users\User> cd C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin x86 : The term 'x86' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm not an accountant or an attorney either. But I've been a manager and I've caught people stealing from various cash sources. I can attest, that if you don't track it tightly, even with access control, it will magically walk away at some point. Not treating PayPal like an account in your

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
1. Job Costing While not 'out of the box and in your face obvious' I think GnuCash can handle 'Job Costing' at least at a rudimentary level now. This sounds like a more specific request of the generic 'classes/categories' RFE that pops up frequently. (another is for revenue/profit centers

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-07-27 Thread John Ralls
Samantha, Sorry I wasn't more explicit: Yes, each command is a line on its own, followed by . You need to use quotes around your API key, so $Env:ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY = "[my API key]" I see that I left off the second quote in the perl command line, it should be perl 'c:\Program Files

Re: [GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-27 Thread John Ralls
I'd go for the second. Account balances are on amounts (i.e. shares if that's what the account commodity is) and AFAIK nothing in the account code looks at split values. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 27, 2020, at 10:24 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > I am curious. Is it possible for this

Re: [GNC] Postgres SSL Solution?

2020-07-27 Thread John Ralls
GnuCash itself doesn't have SSL support, so there is indeed no clear way to do it. You might be able to set up a proxy of some sort. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 26, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Gregory Patricoski > wrote: > > Hey team, > > I am using a postgres database for my gnucash storage, but

Re: [GNC] How to find un-posted invoices (was: Re: BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice)

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Try Business > Customer > Find Invoice, then set criteria to `Is posted?` and uncheck the box. (without that criteria, others should show a `Posted` column anyway, 'un-posted' invoices will show "12/31/1969" as the date - a bug, but usable info still.) You can of course add criteria, and/or

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ah, forgot about the ID, thanks. Regards, Adrien On 7/27/20 12:31 PM, Jean Laroche wrote: No, >> - There's a matching transaction but it's already been matched to an >> imported transaction at some point so it's not available to be matched >> to the new imported one. This means, if you

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Jean Laroche
No, >> - There's a matching transaction but it's already been matched to an >> imported transaction at some point so it's not available to be matched >> to the new imported one. This means, if you re-import the same file, the register transactions that were previously imported are marked as

Re: [GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-27 Thread David Carlson
I am curious. Is it possible for this behavior to occur if 1) a commodity account has a balance of zero shares but a residual value because it has a unrealized gain or loss. 2) a commodity account actually has a tiny share balance or residual value below the threshold visible at the account

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 7/27/2020 12:13 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: I am able to send along an account ID or Invoice ID and then there is the entire memo field on the check.  I also get an email from the CU (if I request) stating that it has been sent.  I can forward that to the recipient with additional notes.

Re: [GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry, the report appears to be working correctly for me on MacOS (10.15.6) using GnuCash 4.1. The 1st option should be the only one you need to toggle the zero balanced accounts from appearing. The 2nd option will remove just the zero figure but retain the account name if the 1st option is

Re: [GNC] Import Transaction Matcher issue in v4

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
This appears to mean that if a subsequent import file contained a duplicate transaction for some reason, (or the user accidentally selected an already imported file) then duplicates would be imported. Or am I reading that wrong? Regards, Adrien On 7/26/20 4:56 PM, jean laroche wrote: -

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Without more info on what isn't working, there's not much to help with. (a copy of your custom file would help) But you can still do this on your own. (probably best if there are lots of things to tweak) 1. Install Virtualbox 2. Create a new VirtualMachine and install a linux distribution in

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 7/27/20 2:07 AM, Liz Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:40:19 -0400 > Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > >> Having the bank mail a check? When I mail a check, there is always >> going to be supporting documentation in the envelope along with it. >> Are you receiving checks with no indication

[GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-27 Thread peterb
I've encountered a bit of a Scooby Doo mystery, and I'm hoping someone can help me figure it out. My Balance Sheet report consistently includes commodity accounts with 0 balance figures for me, even when I've unchecked "Include accounts with zero total balances." Trying to reproduce this with a

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread GTI .H
I would like it too. but for that we have to run the GtkInspector ( https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GTK/Inspector?action=show=Projects%2FGTK%2B%2FInspector) and it doesn't run on Windows and nobody with an OS that runs GtkInspector so far hasn’t offered to help. -- Regards Em seg.,

[GNC] Report error: advanced-portfolio

2020-07-27 Thread Lipp F.
Just installed 4.1 on Windows 10 and advanced portfolio report throws an error. The report was working fine on 3.10. Here it is: Report error An error occurred while running the report. In c-interface.scm: 24:4 19 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 829:9 18 (catch

Re: [GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
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[GNC] GTK CSS 4.0-4.1

2020-07-27 Thread Jimmy R via gnucash-user
Has anyone figured out yet if we can use our custom css. Would like to get my font sizes and colors back if possible -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-07-27 Thread Samantha Payn
Hi John I am sorry to have to come back to you for more support on this and thanks again for your patience. After some fumbling (am I right that I should type each line you have typed followed by the "Enter" key? I really am that much of a newb at this), I got an error message

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread Liz Dodd
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:40:19 -0400 Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > Having the bank mail a check? When I mail a check, there is always > going to be supporting documentation in the envelope along with it. > Are you receiving checks with no indication what for? What do you do > then? > There's

Re: [GNC] BotanyBayGardens nonprofit example, and why GnuCash does not suffice

2020-07-27 Thread David Cousens
Don, One of the reasons I started using GnuCash was to prepare assignments while doing a Master's in accounting 10 years ago. It's value then and now was it could be adapted fairly easily to a variety of needs and the transition to it from traditional accounting theory and T accounts was pretty