Re: [GNC] Setting up account

2019-09-09 Thread Peter West
Hi Brenda, Rounding the number up to what? Can you give an example? I’m on Mac, so things may be different for you. If I go to the Preferences menu, under Accounts > Default Currency I can choose between Locale (mine is en-au, Australia, so that gives me AUD) or I canchoose a currency from a

[GNC] Setting up account

2019-09-09 Thread Brenda Morton
I set up an account and tried to add the beginning balance but it keeps rounding the number up. It also rounds many of the entries. How do I correct this? Brenda ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] AQbanking setup crash

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Your bank’s format may require a newer version of aqbanking. I think you can run 3.7 on Sierra, but I could be mistaken. Certainly, there are 3.x versions that will run on it and you don’t have to stick with 2.6.21. One of them might have a recent enough version to get your transactions. A

Re: [GNC] could not obtain lock on file maybe in use some wh

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 9:37 PM, David T. wrote: > > Adrien, > > > Under most circumstances in this situation, I'd agree with you that the > problem was an unsuccessful exit. However, Bob clearly notes that not only > does he have troubles with the load, but also with saving and backup

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Christopher, So mark that also not working on MacOS as both of John Morris & I are seeing the same issue on different versions of it. (defaulting to Saturday with no ability to change it) I’m just getting into Scheme and I haven’t yet tackled building on MacOS. (though I wanted to just to

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 198, Issue 17

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You have a few issues with dependencies, but the biggest one is GnuCash 3.7 wants boost 1.67 and your repos (based on stock Ubunutu 18.04) only offer 1.65. Perhaps you could add a ppa, or build libboost 1.67 from scratch, but I’ve not attempted that route. I don’t know if Mint has a similar

[GNC] AQbanking setup crash

2019-09-09 Thread aegross
I used to use aqbanking to download credit card transactions but stopped a couple of years ago; it used to work but I don't recall what version of GnuCash I was using then. Today, I tried using the aqbanking wizard and GnuCash crashed. I also tried Actions\Online Actions\Show log window and

Re: [GNC] could not obtain lock on file maybe in use some wh

2019-09-09 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Adrien, Under most circumstances in this situation, I'd agree with you that the problem was an unsuccessful exit. However, Bob clearly notes that not only does he have troubles with the load, but also with saving and backup creation. That sounds very much like some sort of permissions problem. 

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Christopher Lam
Only the transaction report is expected to use the new locale-sensitive start-of-week feature. It is tested working on Linux, and is known to be not yet locale sensitive on windows. On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, 00:58 John Morris, wrote: > Hi Adrien, > Thank you for looking into this issue. The

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 198, Issue 17

2019-09-09 Thread Elmar
Thanks - I did exactly that (downloaded all 3 packages) but I got no joy: ets@Shinobi-L ~/Downloads $ sudo apt install ./*3.7*.deb [sudo] password for ets: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'gnucash' instead of

Re: [GNC] could not obtain lock on file maybe in use some where else

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Delete the .lck files in the directory you are storing your books. (presuming you know for a *fact*, that the data files aren’t already open in GnuCash but you just don’t see the window) You should then be able to then open any data file. You could also choose ‘Open-Anyway’ with the same

[GNC] could not obtain lock on file maybe in use some where else

2019-09-09 Thread Bob Hammons
I have a windows 10 laptop. Today I got this message when I opened my file. I have 3 different files on this computer and they all say the same thing. It will not allow any backups so anything I did today is gone. I tried older files and the same thing happened. I tried my backups that were

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What do you mean by ‘one type’? Can you give a real world example? The Transaction Report (but not the Account Report) has a Transaction Filter setting. If you have info in the Memo, Notes, or other fields you want to filter by, put that matching text there) For example, I can run a

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/9/2019 10:28 AM, mrtibbsabq wrote: Hi. I have been using GnuCash for awhile now but I cannot see a way to tunnel down into the data and generate some simple reports. I would like to generate a report between two dates that show only the expenses for a specific expense category. That seemed

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread mrtibbsabq
Thanks Rich and David. This got me down one level but now I want to filter for only one type of expense. Is there a way to go down one more level? I have even thought about just exporting the date-filtered report as a CVS file so I can clean it up that way but I cannot see a way to even do that.

Re: [GNC] Can't seem to load custom reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I didn’t get to test #1 & #2 again, but sticking with #3, I started GnuCash with --debug --log gnc.scm=debug And got some useful info. It seems all but one of the reports were using: (use-modules (gnucash main)) which apparently doesn’t exist any more. The one report that did work was using:

[GNC] Can't seem to load custom reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Spurred by another thread concerning carrying over custom reports from 2.6.x to 3.x, I finally decided to get around to doing the same for my own. I’ve grabbed several reports from the mailing list over the years that I was testing and playing with from 2.6.x and would like to get them working

Re: [GNC] upgrade to 3.7?

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Elmar, That package was for building from source. If you want .deb files to install, one user is graciously packing them and making them publicly available via Dropbox found in this thread: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-September/086840.html Follow the instructions in

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
John, This one time is okay, but you really shouldn’t e-mail members directly unless specifically requested to. At the very least, others would benefit from the exchange. I’m replying to the list to keep the thread going there. For attachments, mailman seems to like it when your e-mail client

[GNC] upgrade to 3.7?

2019-09-09 Thread Elmar
I downloaded and unpacked gnucash-3.7.tar.gz, but now I don't know what to do with the resulting folder - there is no install shell thingie.  How do I proceed?  I have 3.6 running now. (Linux Mint 19.3).  thanks - Elmar ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 9, 2019, at 11:03 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 12:41 PM, John Morris wrote: >> >> Hi Adrien, >> Thanks for looking into this issue as well. I will study the new procedure >> for loading reports as soon as I am able. >> >>> 1. My invoices

Re: [GNC] ISO 31-0 number writing

2019-09-09 Thread John Ralls
It should, provided that the Unix locale settings provided by the OS are correct. For example Apple has a long-standing error in their Swiss currency file that provides '.' and ',' for the thousands separator and decimal point respectively (the Swiss use ' ' and '.'). The ICU-based locale data

Re: [GNC] appimage

2019-09-09 Thread Dennis Powless
I just 'installed' Digikam with it and it was a dream/easy! d On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 1:52 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > There was some discussion a while back on packaging it, but I think it was > settled to opt for Flatpak. There also is/was a Snap, but I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 12:41 PM, John Morris wrote: > > Hi Adrien, > Thanks for looking into this issue as well. I will study the new procedure > for loading reports as soon as I am able. > >> 1. My invoices (editing/viewing) all pad to the width of the window no >> matter how I size

Re: [GNC] appimage

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There was some discussion a while back on packaging it, but I think it was settled to opt for Flatpak. There also is/was a Snap, but I think it stays rather dated compared to the current release. (it is not maintained by the devs) Regards, Adrien > On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 12:07 PM, Dennis

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’ve updated the bug with a notation of the current problem: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752395 Regards, Adrien > On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 11:56 AM, John Morris wrote: > > Hi Adrien, > Thank you for looking into this issue. The transaction report is the main > issue for me. >

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread John Morris
Hi Adrien, Thanks for looking into this issue as well. I will study the new procedure for loading reports as soon as I am able. > 1. My invoices (editing/viewing) all pad to the width of the window no matter > how I size it, so I’m not sure what you have going on. Maybe try > double-clicking

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Even better for the slightly adventurous, Doug Doughty some moons ago on this list posted a Comparison Transaction Report that is awesome as it allows you to see how your spending has changed in particular accounts over time and you can customize the periods/intervals, etc. I say ‘adventurous’

Re: [GNC] ISO 31-0 number writing

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I would second that notion against making it default. I see this as an issue of locale though, and it is only for display. (the grouping space, like the grouping comma is not part of the data, or should not be.) Also, Fiable notes the desire to copy/paste or import, so typing the

[GNC] appimage

2019-09-09 Thread Dennis Powless
Is gnucash available via appimage? D ___ 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] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 6:02 AM, John Morris wrote: > > Hi All, > I have recently upgraded from Yosemite (macOS 10.10.5) to El Capitan (macOS > 10.11.6) and Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) on two different machines. In the > process, I have finally taken the leap from GnuCash 2.6.16 into the 3.x

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread John Morris
Hi Adrien, Thank you for looking into this issue. The transaction report is the main issue for me. Best, John > On Sep 9, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > John, > > I was hoping to get to test this as well pre-release, but didn’t get to. > > I can confirm that at least

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, D wrote: Not quite. Using your method, open the account, open View->Filter by, set your dates, then run the account report. Alternatively, open the generic Transaction report, in options, choose the account in question, and set the dates. I prefer option 2, inasmuch as I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
John, I was hoping to get to test this as well pre-release, but didn’t get to. I can confirm that at least for the Transaction Report, so far, indeed, Saturday is a fixed start day. (My locale is set to Sunday) I recall this was one report you were concerned with. Any others? Regards, Adrien

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Announcement: GnuCash 3.7 Released

2019-09-09 Thread John Ralls
Snicker. Have you ever looked at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/gnucash.rb? It just downloads Gnucash-Intel-X.Y.dmg from our Github project page. As for updating it, you'll have to ask https://github.com/pkryger. Looking at it did remind me that I should have

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread D via gnucash-user
Rich, Not quite. Using your method, open the account, open View->Filter by, set your dates, then run the account report. Alternatively, open the generic Transaction report, in options, choose the account in question, and set the dates. I prefer option 2, inasmuch as I don't have to remember

Re: [GNC] Assign one payment to multiple invoices (from several customers)

2019-09-09 Thread Bat
Hi, thank you for your suggestions. I understand your propositions, though they would involve many more manual steps (rather than using the [Pay] action on an invoice or [Process Payment] from Business menu). And it would not be in the gnucash internal logic, which manage invoice payments

Re: [GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, mrtibbsabq wrote: Hi. I have been using GnuCash for awhile now but I cannot see a way to tunnel down into the data and generate some simple reports. I would like to generate a report between two dates that show only the expenses for a specific expense category. That seemed

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Announcement: GnuCash 3.7 Released

2019-09-09 Thread Larry Beck via gnucash-user
Any ETA for Mac brew files to be updated to 3.7? On 9/9/19 10:48 AM, boldstripe wrote: > I successfully used these Disco .deb files to install Gnucash 3.7 into Debian > Stable (Buster), after first uninstalling previous versions of the three > files. > > I followed Stephen's original

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Announcement: GnuCash 3.7 Released

2019-09-09 Thread boldstripe
I successfully used these Disco .deb files to install Gnucash 3.7 into Debian Stable (Buster), after first uninstalling previous versions of the three files. I followed Stephen's original instructions. Thank you! -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

[GNC] Simple Reports

2019-09-09 Thread mrtibbsabq
Hi. I have been using GnuCash for awhile now but I cannot see a way to tunnel down into the data and generate some simple reports. I would like to generate a report between two dates that show only the expenses for a specific expense category. That seemed easy to do in MS Money but I am stuck with

Re: [GNC] ISO 31-0 number writing

2019-09-09 Thread David Carlson
First, ISO 31-0 was withdrawn on 17 November 2009. It is superseded by ISO 8-1 . Other parts of ISO 31 have also been withdrawn and replaced by parts of ISO 8 . That standard suggests that large

[GNC] ISO 31-0 number writing

2019-09-09 Thread Fiable.biz via gnucash-user
Hello. I suggest an option for the acceptance by GnuCash of the international notation of numbers, as defined by ISO 31-0 standard and the 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures, which declared in 2003 that "the symbol for the decimal marker shall be either the point on the line or the

[GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

2019-09-09 Thread John Morris
Hi All, I have recently upgraded from Yosemite (macOS 10.10.5) to El Capitan (macOS 10.11.6) and Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) on two different machines. In the process, I have finally taken the leap from GnuCash 2.6.16 into the 3.x series. Until this morning, I was using 3.6 and I am now using 3.7.

[GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

2019-09-09 Thread John Morris
Hi All, First, I offer a hearty thank you to the developers for this new version of GnuCash. I really appreciate that my concern about the starting dates for weekly reports garnered someone’s attention. Unfortunately, the weekly reports are still not working correctly for me. In earlier

Re: [GNC] Version 3.7 on macOS 10.14.6

2019-09-09 Thread pete hopkins
And worked for me to John. Apologies for wasting everyone’s time and thank you for the quick response. Regards peter hopkins On 9 Sep 2019, at 11:20, John Morris mailto:johnj...@editide.us>> wrote: Hi Peter, I had the same results the first time I launched GnuCash 3.7. However, when I

Re: [GNC] Version 3.7 on macOS 10.14.6

2019-09-09 Thread John Morris
Hi Peter, I had the same results the first time I launched GnuCash 3.7. However, when I clicked it a second time in the Dock, it seemed to launch normally. I have not tested much, but it seems to be working. I’m running GnuCash 3.7+(2019-09-07) under El Capitan (10.11.6) on a 17” 2008

[GNC] Version 3.7 on macOS 10.14.6

2019-09-09 Thread pete hopkins
I have just upgraded to the latest stable release on macOS and the application will no longer open. It asks the standard security question about opening an application that is not from the App Store but that is the last thing that happens. Anyone else suffering this or do I need to revert to

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Process

2019-09-09 Thread Derek Atkins
HI, On Mon, September 9, 2019 4:24 am, Charles Peter Avery wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Ver 3.5 and looking to upgrade to Ver 3.7. Would you be able > to > point me to the documentation for the upgrade process please? You don't say what OS/Distro you are using. But to get from 3.5 to 3.7

[GNC] Upgrade Process

2019-09-09 Thread Charles Peter Avery
Hello, I am using Ver 3.5 and looking to upgrade to Ver 3.7. Would you be able to point me to the documentation for the upgrade process please? Regards Charles Avery ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription