Re: [GNC] Reconciliation being undone without warning

2018-08-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 11:01:58 CEST schreef Anthony Marrian: > I see. So, it only affects the NUM field. Wouldn't it be more sensible to > put up the warning, but allow the user to edit without the transaction > becoming unreconciled? No. Reconciliation is a formal process which is done to

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread cicko
Stephen M. Butler wrote > Then I think this next section can disappear entirely: > > ... > Gnucash uses the SQL back end to load the entire data store into memory in > the same manner as the XML back end. > ... Steve, and others, I find this piece of information valuable and would vote for

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread Graham Balin
No, that doesn't work. Sadly my previous 'fix' doesn't work either because as soon as I open a new account window, the widths of all open windows are spoilt. It seems to think my screen is an inch or so wider than it really is, as the balance column is always off-screen. Dragging the right divider

[GNC] Links in transaction reports

2018-08-16 Thread Nancy Tague
I’m a brand new GnuCash user trying to figure out its features. This one has me stumped. The numbers in transaction reports show as blue and underlined – they’re links to the register. Is there a way to turn that off? I don’t want my reports to have blue underlined numbers. Thanks for your

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

2018-08-16 Thread Adrian Holbrook
Thanks for your response. Can you tell me when the spam was sent? I did have some problems some time ago but have changed my password a couple of times since then. Get Outlook for Android From: gnucash-user on behalf of Liz Sent:

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-08-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 05:40:30 CEST schreef Roger Oliver: > Adrien, > > > > A challenge here is that the GnuCash I am using is in Spanish, that is the > accounting terms and reports and in Spanish so I’m guessing at what the > names are in English. I couldn’t figure out which report was

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread cicko
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > Roger that. Curious though if this issue should be addressed in > documentation, or bugzilla. It’s probably a bug if the format can’t make > use of them. They likely should not be generated at all. For those interested: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795393

[GNC] Next release of F::Q

2018-08-16 Thread Erik Colson
Hello all, I'm on some extended vacation and will be back home next week. My intent is to release F::Q from master at the end of this month. The alphavantage module has undergone some modifications which should make it more reliable since we can now tell the module at which speed it can

Re: [GNC] Links in transaction reports

2018-08-16 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Nancy, welcome to Gnucash user list! You can disable links but it's not obvious in the transaction report. You'll need to modify the style sheet used (edit menu) then reload the transaction report. On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 16:55 Nancy Tague wrote: > I’m a brand new GnuCash user trying to figure

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 16 augustus 2018 02:33:32 CEST schreef Derek Atkins: > Depends on the platform. > On Linux the sqlite dbd may not come installed. > > -derek > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. To clarify this a bit, whether or not sqlite is included in the package as the user

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 09:44, Graham Balin wrote: > No, that doesn't work. Sadly my previous 'fix' doesn't work either because > as soon as I open a new account window, the widths of all open windows are > spoilt. It seems to think my screen is an inch or so wider than it really > is, as the

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-08-16 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 16, 2018, at 2:14 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 05:40:30 CEST schreef Roger Oliver: >> Adrien, >> >> >> >> A challenge here is that the GnuCash I am using is in Spanish, that is the >> accounting terms and reports and in Spanish so I’m guessing at

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Derek Atkins
"David T." writes: > I apologize. > > I never meant to imply otherwise. Your statement sounded tentative, > and I was seeking definitive confirmation. That’s all. It all depends on the platform and distribution. It *may* be installed, because something else pulled it in. Or it may NOT be

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Adrien Monteleone writes: > Since .gnucash is not really proprietary or somehow a special format > from XML then I agree, the extension should be .xml. The benefit of using .gnucash is that the gnucash-xml file can be auto-loaded into GnuCash and not a generic XML parser. > Combine this with

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Derek Atkins
"David T. via gnucash-user" writes: > I am no expert at the SQL back ends, but I was given to understand > that the log files are generated regardless of the back end being > used—but that for the SQL back ends, they aren’t useful, since changes > are written to the file immediately. They are

Re: [GNC] Hebrew

2018-08-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 16:41:39 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Aug 1, 2018, at 8:23 PM, Varda Rotenberg > > wrote: > > > > I speat fluent Hebrew, but I am not a programer. What kind of translation > > do you need? I can translate user guides if needed. > > No programming required. Updating

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Adrien Monteleone writes: > As a linux user trying to use the repo version, I’ve never had to > separately install sqlite to my recollection. Certainly, it’s part of > the preps for building if sqlite support is intended. But even then, I > don’t recall separate installation. It was already

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Graham Balin writes: > What I can't understand is why this problem still happens. Someone once > must have coded the auto-size feature for the description column - given > that people have been complaining about it for at least 8 years, can it not > just be deleted so all columns behave the same

[GNC] A way to disable autofill entries? or am I doing it wrong?

2018-08-16 Thread Dylan L
Hi All, Relatively new to Gnucash and very new to this mailing list. I am running Version: 3.2 Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24) Finance::Quote: 1.47 MacOS 10.13.6 And running into the following scenario. I go to enter something into a ledger and it autocompletes to a previous entry. When this is

Re: [GNC] Links in transaction reports

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Christopher, Is there some reason why the Transaction report doesn’t have the option to display as hyperlinks, as I see for accounts under the Balance Sheet report (Options->Display->Display accounts as hyperlinks)? Forcing a user to edit style sheets to achieve this in one report, while

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread Graham Balin
Yes. 2.6.12 on Ubuntu with HP Laptop. No matter what I do, only the letters 'Ba' show in the Balance column on the far right of the screen. Clicking tile window allows me to resize the height of the window but not the width. Very frustrating. No problem when I am on my big monitor running 3.1 but

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
Graham, Try temporarily to grab the right edge of the Account field and drag it left until it is very narrow. That should make it easier to see the Balance. After double clicking or dragging the right edge to fix Balance double click Account and lastly drag the right edge of Description way

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 16:38, Graham Balin wrote: > Yes. 2.6.12 on Ubuntu with HP Laptop. No matter what I do, only the > letters 'Ba' show in the Balance column on the far right of the screen. > Clicking tile window allows me to resize the height of the window but not > the width. > I don't

Re: [GNC] UK specific: any progress on MTD (Making Tax Difficult) ?

2018-08-16 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 06:46:25AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: > > This should be on the devel list perhaps. I have just subscribed there. > it does seem to me from reading the link provided in the OP that a GC report > or two feeding into a spreadsheet containing the "api magic" HMRC talk about

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Stephen M. Butler
I am not familiar with SQLite.  However, general database theory implies that the log files would be useful if you lost the database and had to revert to an earlier backup.  Then you could replay the logs and have the database roll forward to the last transaction recorded in the log files.  Hence,

Re: [GNC] A way to disable autofill entries? or am I doing it wrong?

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
For the first, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734 . This explains the problem and a workaround. It sounds as if your second problem is related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796741

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Graham, If your problem is specifically that the Balance column is too narrow, then you’ve encountered a Known Idiosyncrasy: the Balance column is a challenge to resize. In fact, the only way I know to get it to resize is to double-click the column heading. This is documented in a note in the

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-16 Thread Christoph R
> Am 16.08.2018 um 17:06 schrieb Derek Atkins : > > A user shouldn't really care whether a gnucash datafile is XML or SQLite -- > it should just work. Exactly! The internal data format does not matter to the user. The handling within and outside of Gnucash does. Gruß, Christoph

[GNC] Price editor is not getting the quotes.

2018-08-16 Thread Bill Swanson
I am using alphavantage. Has the get quotes method changed? Thanks in advance! -- Bill Swanson 207-2443946 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
Somewhat terse, but I like it. David C On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:00 PM, David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I’ve attempted to incorporate the suggestions that others have made for > the section on file storage formats, and I attach the resulting version 2 > for

[GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I’ve attempted to incorporate the suggestions that others have made for the section on file storage formats, and I attach the resulting version 2 for further consideration. Keep in mind that this is not meant to be an encyclopedic coverage of the topic; it’s meant to outline the choices. I

Re: [GNC] A way to disable autofill entries? or am I doing it wrong?

2018-08-16 Thread Dylan L
Hi David, Wow, that was a super fast response. Sorry, that my bug searching skills were not up to snuff. Thank you for your response. You are right on the money with those two bugs being my problem. I know have a workaround (verified works for me) for the first and will wait on the second.

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread GT-I9070 H
Em qui, 16 de ago de 2018 às 13:34, David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> escreveu: > Graham, > > If your problem is specifically that the Balance column is too narrow, > then you’ve encountered a Known Idiosyncrasy: the Balance column is a > challenge to resize. In fact, the only

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Looks good to me. Regards, Adrien > On Aug 16, 2018, at 3:00 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I’ve attempted to incorporate the suggestions that others have made for the > section on file storage formats, and I attach the resulting version 2 for > further consideration. Keep in

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I thought that’s what his chart did. (though it may not format correctly in the previous reply) The default is XML. Regards, Adrien > On Aug 16, 2018, at 8:51 PM, John C wrote: > > Please tell the reader the default file format right after installation. > > regards, > John > > On 8/16/2018

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
John,  I don't understand your statement.  Insofar as a user might open the Guide immediately after installation (I'm not that self-aggrandizing as that), they would see in the second sentence of this section that xml is the default file format.  Or did you have some other concern?  David

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ken, always use reply-all or reply-to-list so that others can participate in the conversation and offer assistance. I can’t get to the specifics at the moment for the preference permissions issue, but maybe someone else can in the interim. Your preferences I think should be stored in

Re: [GNC] 3.2 and missing colors on accounts page

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Look under Preferences > Accounts > Account Colors. (at the bottom) One preference controls the tab, one the background on the CoA. There was a discussion about also coloring the register itself with a generated palette based on the account color, but I don’t think it went too far. Regards,

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread John C
Please tell the reader the default file format right after installation. regards, John On 8/16/2018 5:06 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Looks good to me. Regards, Adrien On Aug 16, 2018, at 3:00 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I’ve attempted to incorporate the suggestions that others

Re: [GNC] Next release of F::Q

2018-08-16 Thread brad
My version of  AlphaVantage.pm in /usr/local/share/perl/5.26.1/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm has no maxQueries variable.   I just ran gnc-fq-update.   Do we need to get the latest from github? On 08/16/2018 03:20 AM, Erik Colson wrote: Hello all, I'm on some extended vacation and will be

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread MycoGeo
Do people have experience with different load/save times with the different formats? A long while back, I experimented with storing gnucash data on a MySQL server on a NAS, so it was over the LAN. I didn’t find the save/load times different than saving/loading from the compressed XML format

Re: [GNC] Links in transaction reports

2018-08-16 Thread Christopher Lam
Um. It's historical. And nobody has requested removing links in amounts loudly enough to warrant an incompatible change of options. If there is demand, in which tab should the option reside? On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 00:47 David T. wrote: > Christopher, > > Is there some reason why the Transaction

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I would think that is a ‘mileage varies’ sort of issue based on your computer specs and in the case of remote access, network latency, which is variable for anyone. I don’t think a hard comparison is possible as a generalized statement, there are just too many variables. If you’re looking for

Re: [GNC] Links in transaction reports

2018-08-16 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I don’t understand your assertion that this would be an “incompatible change of options.” The option to remove hyperlinks is available on the Balance Sheet, but not on the Transaction Report. What about that is incompatible? If I were going to put the option anywhere, I’d put it in the same

Re: [GNC] 3.2 and missing colors on accounts page

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
That was broken in some of the early beta releases. Has it been fixed? David C On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 5:14 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Look under Preferences > Accounts > Account Colors. (at the bottom) One > preference controls the tab, one the background

Re: [GNC] 3.2 and missing colors on accounts page

2018-08-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I thought so too and almost replied to that effect, but it works for me using 3.2 on MacOS. (I don’t normally use it, but I just turned it back on to test for my earlier reply) Regards, Adrien > On Aug 16, 2018, at 10:38 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > That was broken in some of the early