Re: Newbie Question

2017-07-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 7, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Paul Leniston wrote: > > I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. > > > I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a > differrent common account for each one? > > > In the UK bank I have three accounts. There is a curre

Re: Newbie Question

2017-07-07 Thread David Carlson
If your accounts are in different currencies, which they might be, each one should be denominated in the correct currency. The parent accounts (Assets:Current) probably also need to be set up separately for each currency. However, I am not a multi-currency user, so I may be wrong David C On

RE: "Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to transactions in 2.6.17

2017-07-07 Thread John Vermeer
John, Thanks for the swift reply. Unchecking "Use Non-SWIFT transaction text" immediately resolved this in Windows. I will need to go buy something before I can check Linux (my primary gnucash system). John From: John Ralls Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 10:42 AM To: John Vermeer Cc: David Carls

Re: Newbie Question

2017-07-07 Thread Aaron Laws
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Paul Leniston wrote: > I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. > > > I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a > differrent common account for each one? > > > In the UK bank I have three accounts. There is a current acco

Newbie Question

2017-07-07 Thread Paul Leniston
I have just downloaded gnucash and am a little confused. I have two bank accounts, one in UK and one in Spain. Do I need a differrent common account for each one? In the UK bank I have three accounts. There is a current account, a deposit account and a credit card account. Do I need a dif

Re: "Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to transactions in 2.6.17

2017-07-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 6, 2017, at 3:40 PM, John Vermeer wrote: > > David, John, and All, > > Thanks! > > Yes, the string is appearing in the description field. I will attach images – > to hopefully show you. > > I will try to download the OFX from BECU – to see if the string is there. > > Sound like

Re: Unable to create reports

2017-07-07 Thread Dave H
Heather, If my memory is correct there were some issues (I can't remember what they were now) with the Windows version of 2.6.16 and there was a 2.6.16-1 release shortly afterwards that fixed the issues. Perhaps you should just download the current version 2.6.17 which was released a couple of da

Re: Unable to create reports

2017-07-07 Thread Dave H
Heather, Just a wild thought but where did you save your gnucash datafile when you created it. I keep mine in a GnuCash sub folder under the "My Documents" folder as I know I've got write access to it there. Cheers Dave H. On 7 July 2017 at 16:14, Heather Stevens wrote: > Hi, > I have insta

Re: Unable to create reports

2017-07-07 Thread Dave H
Heather, John included a link in his email to the trace file instructions which I also copied in my earlier reply to you :-) Please use reply all so other users can assist if necessary. Cheers Dave H. On 7 Jul 2017 5:27 pm, "Heather Stevens" wrote: Hi, Thanks for your response. I have install

Re: Unable to create reports

2017-07-07 Thread Dave H
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 at 4:14 pm, Heather Stevens wrote: > Hi, > I have installed gnu cash for the first tim and added all my accounts. I > used GnuCash 2.6.16 and I have windows professional 7. > My tree and all looks great but gnu cash will not create reports. I > get *Error > opening file: No s