[GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-25 Thread Chris Green
. So the solution has to be simple and manageable by part-time, non-professional people. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-12 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 03:49:04PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/11/24 3:08 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > So, given that I'm going up just one major release I shouls be OK, but > > running "Check & Repair" before doing anything else is a good idea. > Correc

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 12:45:11PM -0700, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > Chris: > > On 2024-05-11 03:21, Chris Green wrote: > > I am changing my Linux desktop computer from one running xubuntu 22.04 > > to one running xubuntu 24.04. As a result of this the GnuCash version > >

[GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-11 Thread Chris Green
hardware so the old system will not disappear. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember

Re: [GNC] Is anyone else getting these malicious e-mails?

2024-04-15 Thread Chris Green
ubscribing to the > list, and as you note then the addresses can be collected. > I use a *lot* ofmailing lists (60 or more) and I filter each into a separate inbox. The filter uses the mail headers to separate the lists and, thus, junk mail gets ignored. I'm sure the filt

Re: [GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-11 Thread Chris Green
Adrien, Thanks for your continuing support with this, see further comments and informaiton below. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:52:36AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 3/11/24 5:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 12:01:01PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: &

Re: [GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-11 Thread Chris Green
f account' in my stylesheet settings. Is this something that has been changed since version 4.8? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.o

[GNC] Setting font sizes in reports (specifically in Transaction Report)

2024-03-08 Thread Chris Green
to change this please. I'd prefer something that will fix things every time I create a new transaction report rather than having to edit every report after creating it. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Chris Green
he result I want, a report I can edit reasonably easily in lowriter. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user -

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
ffice etc. are here by default). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this li

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
p to achieve > what you need? This is what I'm after. I'm all Linux based but so far whatever route I take to get from GnuCash's HTML to PDF I end up with a PDF file with images rather than text in it. What do you use to convert to PDF? -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
do) using a spreadsheet!?? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your rep

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
rite occupation. Any other format, whether markup of some sort or word-precessor is infinitely better. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnuc

[GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
of the entries. Surely there's a way to get an edtable report!? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" button just prints

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:55:00PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 1/16/24 8:05 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Gnucash 5.3 on xubuntu linux. > > > > The "Make PDF" button on the toolbar just does exactly the same as the > > "Print" bu

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 5.3 always gives me an dbind error at startup

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:10:16AM -0800, john wrote: > > > > On Jan 12, 2024, at 13:09, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop to xubuntu 23.10 and that also upraded > > gnucash to version 5.3. > > > > Now, every time

[GNC] Gnucash 5.3 always gives me an dbind error at startup

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
/root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0.0: Permission denied GnuCash 5.3 Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26) So, why is it trying to create/connect to a socket in /root? It's bound to get a permission error. It seems to run OK in spite of this. -- Chris Green

[GNC] "Make PDF" button just prints

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
I'm running Gnucash 5.3 on xubuntu linux. The "Make PDF" button on the toolbar just does exactly the same as the "Print" button, it calls up the standard printer dialogue. How can I get a report output as a PDF file? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Idiot 101 question

2024-01-16 Thread Chris Green
ne is some Epson scanner software. Otherwise it's almost always easier to do things on a 'real' machine, the virtual machine environment just introduces another layer of possible issues. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gn

[GNC] Some questions about the Account Summary Report

2023-08-31 Thread Chris Green
sub-accounts. Have I got something wrongly configured? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:58:55AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 8/6/23 6:28 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > > At least someone agrees with me! :-) > > > > I've been muttering about this, on and off, for quite a while! There > > should be a way to move the clutte

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Green
o keep them out of the way, I know files can be moved 'by hand') -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 09:59:37AM -0700, john wrote: > For bug-filing instructions see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla#Commenting_on_existing_bugs_or_entering_new_ones. > > > > Chris Green and G R Hewitt, what OS/distro are you running and how did you > in

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 09:28:40AM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 at 09:03, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:48:37PM -0400, AgedLace wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Recently, I've been having a problem entering

Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

2023-07-29 Thread Chris Green
hen you enter just one or two characters. On my system most of the issues occur with the Transfer column, it sometimes locks up in the same way that you're describing for the Description field. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.o

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

2023-07-26 Thread Chris Green
a command line, > > To use the abbreviating protocoll you have to check, if the docs are > stored where the protocoll, which your yelp version understands, expects > them. > Thanks Frank, I use xubuntu rather than ubuntu but yelp is in xubuntu even though it's not really Gnome. I s

Re: [GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:58:37AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 7/25/23 4:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two > > sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account > > to on

Re: [GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:31:23AM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 25/07/2023 10:27, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two > > sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account > > to one of the sub-

[GNC] How to split an existing account into two sub-accounts?

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Green
Is there an easy way to take an existing account and make it into two sub-accounts and, at the same time, move transactions in the account to one of the sub-accounts. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Accounts which are both Income and Expense accounts

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 06:08:00PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 24 July 2023 at 16:53, Chris Green said: > > > Is there a 'right' way to handle an account which gets payments in two > > directions? > > > > E.g. I have good relations with a friend and we often

[GNC] Accounts which are both Income and Expense accounts

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
definitely one account and one wants to see all the payments in one place. I guess one can just say it's an 'Expense' account and make payments in either direction as required, is this the only way or is there a special name for such an account? -- Chris Green

[GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
I'm running GnuCash 4.8 on [x]Ubuntu 22.04.2, I have gnucash-docs installed as well as the gnucash and gnucash-common packages but when I click on things in the Help menu I just get "Document not found". So, how do I get the help to work? -- C

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
Thanks both for the 'how to do it' for split transactions. I'm getting there slowly! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:06:26AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: > On Monday, 24 July 2023 10:38:35 BST Chris Green wrote: > > Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem > > to quite address my question, probably because I'm not describing what >

[GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Chris Green
this? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:05:24AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 23 Jul 2023, at 10:03, Chris Green wrote: > > > > >> > > > Petty Cash is also used in the UK for this. > > …but is primarily a mechanism used for staff to make small purchases of

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:02:25PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 23 July 2023 at 9:34, Chris Green said: > > [...] > > I simply want to be able to able to have (conceptually) a multi-line > > entry in the income sub-account called 'Collections at services' which > >

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
as Income when the cash is moved from Assets: Current Assets:Cash to Assets:Current Assets:Bank ? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 10:12:05AM +1000, Liz wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:56:09 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > But what if one has cash from two collections to go to the same > > account. I.e. a collection on 22nd July and a collection on 29th > > July bo

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Chris Green
st and isn't going to exist, for my trivially simple accounting system (which satisfies both the accountant and the Diocese) it just complicates things. I simply want to be able to able to have (conceptually) a multi-line entry in the income sub-account called 'Collections at services' which recor

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-22 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 10:17:12AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > Hello again Chris. > Hi! :-) > Comments inserted below: > > On 21 Jul 2023, at 09:09, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > I quite often seem to have cases where several 'items' (see below for > >

[GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-21 Thread Chris Green
are for joining together payments to 'different' places rather than joining together several payments to and from the same places. Any/all help would be very welcome. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Reply convention

2023-07-19 Thread Chris Green
o be lost on many users. There are standard ways of indicating emphasis and such using just plain text. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:58:27AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 14 Jul 2023, at 13:24, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 01:06:36PM +0100, Maf. King wrote: > >> On Friday, 14 July 2023 12:34:28 BST Fross, Michael wrote: > >>> I

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-14 Thread Chris Green
to use (because it's in the directory for the year I'm looking at). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ---

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-13 Thread Chris Green
when the check is > deposited. > > The opposite movements then are made for payments from the building fund to > the main accounts of needed. > Thank you Vincent, I think you have outlined an approach that will work for me. I will start trying it out and see how things go. -- Chris

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:56:23PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 7/12/2023 8:12 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > This is as much an accounting question as a GnuCash one but how one > > does this depends on the sofware's capabilities so it makes sense > > to ask here. &

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 12/07/2023 13:55, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:19:41PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > >> Why would you have 2 separate instances of GnuCash rather than simply 2 > >> A

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:41:27PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 12/07/2023 16:35, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > >> On 12/07/2023 15:44, Stan Brown wrote: > >>> On 2023-07-12 05:19, Paul Feakins wrote: > &

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
? > > Because opening 2 instances is more complicated than opening just one? > > Because a transfer from one account to the other would be easier in the > same instance? > Because you E-Mailed me directly! Thanks for all the help everbody! -- Chris Green

[GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Chris Green
35.00 Then I need to make an 'expenses' payment out of the current account to the building fund of 1400.00 but it needs somehow to reference the above income to show where the amount came from. Has anyone any experience or ideas of how to manage this? -- Chris Green

[GNC] How to set dates for all reports?

2023-05-02 Thread Chris Green
I have this problem every time I try and get some reports out of GnuCash. How can I set the dates for *all* reports so that they all end up reporting the same period? Or, alternatively, how do I set up the 'Accounting Period'? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Please don't double post

2023-04-20 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 02:00:08PM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 08:49, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:28:54AM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > > > Maybe a forum might serve better than a mailing list, there are many > > >

Re: [GNC] Please don't double post

2023-04-20 Thread Chris Green
on me. 3 - Very few forums preserve message threading properly so it becomes very difficult to follow messages in sub-threads etc. 4 - I can easily keep useful/interesting messages (or complete threads) to refer to later, locally on my computer. etc. etc. -- Ch

Re: [GNC] Website from WIki

2023-01-15 Thread Chris Green
pipe chris$ host gnucash.org gnucash.org has address 67.198.37.17 gnucash.org mail is handled by 10 lists.gnucash.org. chris$ host www.gnucash.org www.gnucash.org has address 67.198.37.17 So that's as it should be, so it's probably something in the web server setup

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-07 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:41:22PM -0800, Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2023-01-06 11:35, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:17:46PM +1000, David H wrote: > >> Chris, > >> > >> Did you run a report then click on Options / General Tab - the reports

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Green
ry report after entering it just once! -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this l

[GNC] Why can't I set 'selcted' accounts for reports permananently?

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Green
Maybe I'm missing a setting somewhere, but every time I want to print a report I have to go through the whole rigmarole of selecting all accounts for the report. Is there a way to get Gnucash to default to selecting *all* accounts rather than no accounts? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Green
that's where it is. Why isn't it with the other report options? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:17:46PM +1000, David H wrote: > Chris, > > Did you run a report then click on Options / General Tab - the reports I > run allow you to set the period for each report? > ... and then forgets it for the next report as far as I can see.

[GNC] Where do I set the "Accounting Period" for reports?

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Green
Every year when I want to print annual reports I have this problem. I can never find where to set the 'accounting period' for reports. Where is it please? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash between 2 users

2022-05-11 Thread Chris Green
uite transparently use GnuCash on my desktop or when I'm away from home on my laptop. The standard GnuCash lock files prevent me from doing things in two places at once by mistake. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To updat

Re: [GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

2022-05-08 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 07:02:22AM +1000, Liz Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 18:58:13 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > However there are other files one needs to copy if you want reports > > and screen layout and things like that to be the same. Is this > > document

[GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

2022-05-06 Thread Chris Green
across as I run GnuCash on both my desktop machine and my laptop. Just copying the GnuCash data file means that I get the same accounts on both systems but not reports and connected files ('experimental' CSS for reports, that sort of thing). -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-06 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:13:06PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I just played around with it on the Transaction Report and came up with > > this: > > > > td:first-child { > > font-wei

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
tion should be more noticeable. > That's clever! I'd looked at the output HTML but I didn't know about the "first child" modifier. I'll certainly try it, thank you. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:59:55PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > On 5/5/22 3:12 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there any guarantee that the CSS Stylesheet wll allow me to access > > every selector I can see in the HTML output? I guess I can simply > > ta

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

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
home/chris/pictures/2020s/2022/03/24 ... and I can very easily find pictures I took on my school summer holidays in the 1960s, and everywhere in between. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription pref

Re: [GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:29:28AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/4/22 9:31 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I find I nearly always change the same five or six report options > > every time I want a new report. For example I nearly always want to > > select all account

Re: [GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:33:51AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 5/4/22 5:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > The Transaction Report probably provides the information that my > > auditor wants by listing each account's transactions in order and > > giving the total amou

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

2022-05-05 Thread Chris Green
fact these are :the same > file except for a different year is an EXCELLENT way to go > Yes, except that it does make for rather long filenames. I'd really be happiest if my GnuCash 'building' bank account data file was simply called 'building'. It's in a directory

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

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op dinsdag 3 mei 2022 18:37:20 CEST schreef 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 >

Re: [GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:36:19AM -0500, David Carlson wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:32 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > I find I nearly always change the same five or six report options > > every time I want a new report. For example I nearly always want to > > selec

[GNC] Can one save report option defaults?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
with the values I want? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see

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

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:27:59PM +, Christopher Lam wrote: > Use the "Income & GST Statement" report. > > [image: image.png] > > [image: image.png] > Yes, thank you, I've finally got there. That provides the information (plus a few unwanted

[GNC] Change layout and font sizes in Transaction Report - how?

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
the 'body' text and so the name doesn't stand out to indicate the start of the next account. I can 'do' CSS but there don't seem to be any obvious selectors for the items I want to change. Is there any detailed description of what selectors are available in the CSS stylesheet? -- C

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

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:07:53AM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > 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 &

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

2022-05-04 Thread Chris Green
without making a selection. > I get the change to the up arrow, but (as I said) there's no list to be closed. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lis

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
annoying now! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
> > There are further sub-directories to sum of these. It makes it very easy for > me sum = 'some' :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscri

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
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. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
file name but that does make it rather long and clumsy, and it makes for redundant information which Mr Codd doesn't like! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
. However it's the wrong way round, I want dates down the page and accounts across the page. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
r at least one that has been fixed since 4.4). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
aracter 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). -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-u

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

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
is essentially the same problem, the drop-down list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailm

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

2022-05-03 Thread 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

[GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

2022-05-03 Thread Chris Green
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. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
business and nothing to do with money. I still want to keep them in the same place. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
type script for GnuCash now that I run when I'm in the appropriate directory to open the GnuCash file there. It's still a bit 'messy' with all the log files that GnuCash leaves there, I'm working on that as well! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing li

Re: [GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
ng Google directly to find specific topics and info. > OK, thanks, so at least I'm not missing anything. :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://list

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:49:02PM -0600, brad wrote: > > On 4/26/22 09:25, Chris Green wrote: > > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > > GnuCash I just want it to

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:10:21PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts > > database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more! > > > It may be c

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
information associated with the GnuCash data which I keep in the same directory. E.g. there are copies of cheques deposited and GiftAid records. So my way of working is to go (in a terminal window) to that directory and then run programs as needed from there. --

Re: [GNC] Linux. Mysql and Gnucash 4.1

2022-04-27 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:47:04PM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 4/26/22 3:28 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:36:30PM +1200, grant wrote: > > > So I have rebuilt my laptop, recovered my databases and installed Gnucash > > > 4.1 but I cannot

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash? databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
menu or icon (rather than the command line) I'd really prefer that it didn't default to the last set of accounts opened. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
says " Do not load the last file opened". To me that says don't open the last file GnuCash had opened when I exited. As I said I can, of course, write wrapper scripts (or desktop files) to make GnuCash open specific files. However I wish it *didn't* open the last file I was editing by

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:24:32PM -0400, David T. wrote: >On April 26, 2022 11:25:02 AM EDT, Chris Green wrote: > > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > > GnuCash

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 04:25:02PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case) > spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run > GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory. > > Is th

[GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

2022-04-26 Thread Chris Green
'open account' anwhere in there. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane

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