Re: [GNC] how to import a csv of transactions?

2021-07-13 Thread Arman Schwarz
I ended up doing the merge manually with a text editor, by just copying the account structure over and then the individual transactions. On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 15:34, Arman Schwarz wrote: > Thanks for the replies. To clarify, I have 2 separate gnucash files, one > for my everyday expens

Re: [GNC] how to import a csv of transactions?

2021-07-12 Thread Arman Schwarz
ge, when you can describe in detail > what you want to do, users here will step up to help. > > Good luck. > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:40 AM Geoff wrote: > >> Hi Arman >> >> Yes, this *definitely* works with v4.4 on Windows. I haven't tried v4.6 >> y

[GNC] how to import a csv of transactions?

2021-07-12 Thread Arman Schwarz
I've tried on both 4.4 and 4.6 but it seems that importing csv transactions is broken. Before I continue down this path, is csv importing an actually supported feature or are the issues with it known? Normally I'd put more effort into repro steps but I think it's so broken the devs hopefully alread

[GNC] How do I manage IOUs between household members?

2021-05-30 Thread Arman Schwarz
My wife and I would like to separate our individual money from the money that is "communal". Every month, we take 80% of our salaries and deposit them into a communal account, leaving 20% as pocket money for ourselves. So for example, if I make $1000 in one month and my wife makes $2000, then I wo

[GNC] How are donations to the GnuCash project distributed?

2020-12-20 Thread Arman Schwarz
First up, apologies if this is the wrong place to send this. I looked through the mailing lists page on the gnucash website and couldn't find any mailing lists that seem to fit this question so I'm asking it here. I'd like to set up regular donations to the GnuCash project (because I use the softw

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Arman Schwarz
Thanks guys for the clarity, I will look into that documentation. On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 17:19, David Cousens wrote: > The trading accounts should be created automatically when you buy and sell > shares and stock once the feature is enabled as described in the WIki. You > don't need to create the

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-02 Thread Arman Schwarz
f the statemetn I'm reconciling against? On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 21:22, Arman Schwarz wrote: > All the issues I've highlighted really boil down to inserting transactions > before already reconciled ones, so if we could prevent that it might make > my concern moot. > > So

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-02 Thread Arman Schwarz
there be a framework/central mechanism to capture all these sanity > checks? > > It's really difficult. Software development is hard. For that matter I > don't think any current developer has found this issue particularly high > priority, so, it has never been done. > > On

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-02 Thread Arman Schwarz
ted to give a specific scenario). On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 19:49, D via gnucash-user wrote: > Moreover, when next you go to reconcile, that entry for 2010 will display > up at the very top of the reconcile window, and one might wonder at that, > see the incorrect date and fix it. > > [T

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-01 Thread Arman Schwarz
if I find > a lost receipt for example, I can either edit that balancing transaction > accordingly, or erase/reverse it entirely. > > But that doesn’t include the case of doing so automatically from an actual > reconciliation. (rather than being not up to date in doing so, or manuall

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

2019-10-01 Thread Arman Schwarz
Thanks Christopher, also for putting a name to what I was trying to describe. It seems odd to me that the devs would spend time implementing "Reconciliation" and then delete the most important part right after it's provided (the balance). Was this a deliberate design decision or are balance assert