Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread Bill Wohler
I did? Still a great idea :-). David Carlson wrote: > Well, it has only been 10 years since you(Bill) suggested renaming the > placeholder column to Read-Only. > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:11 PM Bill Wohler wrote: > > Thanks for the confirmation, David. This does seems like a bug to be

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread David Carlson
Well, it has only been 10 years since you(Bill) suggested renaming the placeholder column to Read-Only. On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:11 PM Bill Wohler wrote: > Thanks for the confirmation, David. This does seems like a bug to be > fixed someday... > > D. wrote: > > > Yep. That's how it is. To

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread D. via gnucash-user
I'll mention that you can add both the hidden and the placeholder columns onto your Chart of Accounts window. They appear as check boxes, and you can change their values directly by clicking them in the window. Thus, you can quickly set both these flags from that screen. Note that if your CoA

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Thanks for the confirmation, David. This does seems like a bug to be fixed someday... D. wrote: > Yep. That's how it is. To hide accounts in the popup, you also have to set it > as a placeholder. Cf. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397135 > > David > > > Original Message

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] USAA FSB requires newer QWIN support

2021-02-14 Thread John Ralls
What flavor of Quicken did you use? Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 14, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Keith Bellairs wrote: > > My USAA checking and credit card seem to be working. My users/0.conf is > using this client UID: I got it from quicken's OFXlog.txt file. > > char

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2021-02-14 Thread David Carlson
I think it may be possible to set the start date for an existing scheduled transaction to an arbitrary date in the past to effectively reset the clock on that scheduled transaction. However, I do not have a test file handy or the time to pursue that theory myself. Alternatively, one could

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Yep. That's how it is. To hide accounts in the popup, you also have to set it as a placeholder. Cf. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397135 David Original Message From: Bill Wohler Sent: Sun Feb 14 19:03:09 EST 2021 To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: [GNC]

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2021-02-14 Thread lj
bdp3 wrote: But I still don't understand HOW to rerun the SX using a date in the past... My SX has many lines and deleting/re-writing it would be a hassle. > Questions: > How can the Scheduled be re-run for prior periods? The only way to do that is by editing your Gnucash data file

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] USAA FSB requires newer QWIN support

2021-02-14 Thread Keith Bellairs
My USAA checking and credit card seem to be working. My users/0.conf is using this client UID: I got it from quicken's OFXlog.txt file. char clientUid="39E0E763-4E1E-4918-9528-D6EBAC94EF5D" Notably when the online action in GNC challenges for the account password the required response is

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-14 Thread Stan Brown
On 2021-02-14 13:29, gnu Gord wrote: > First off I'll say I have no formal accounting training so I don't really > understand accounting terminology or how it is represented in GnuCash. > > I understand the basic idea that Equity = Assets - Liabilities, but I'm > unsure how this should be entered

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] USAA FSB requires newer QWIN support

2021-02-14 Thread John Ralls
I tried again with a second visit to accessid so I'd get a fresh UUID. It worked to get the accounts but failed when I tried to retrieve transactions. I've summarized the setup process in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings#USAA, though for my experience the Client

Re: [GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-14 Thread David Cousens
Stephen I have been meaning to an update of the dependencies page on the wiki for V4 for some time but have been largely occupied elsewhere for the moment. I usually consult the Version Release notes for any changes recorded there and do a skim through the Dev and User archives for any missing

Re: [GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-14 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Stephen, Am 14.02.21 um 23:53 schrieb Stephen M. Butler: > to whoever is maintaining the > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies page. : the GnuCash community is the maintainer of the wiki. As I am busy, it is your job. ;-) Get a wiki account and fix it. Regards Frank

Re: [GNC] Migrating to Linux Mint

2021-02-14 Thread David Cousens
Your GnuCash data file can be placed anywhere suitable in your home directory in Linux.i.e. in /home/ where is your user name on the Linux system. It is a good practice to create a separate subdirectory in which to place GnuCash data file you have (e.g personal finances, business finances etc).

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] USAA FSB requires newer QWIN support

2021-02-14 Thread John Ralls
I tried it both ways, capitalized and not. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 14, 2021, at 11:31 AM, Randy Johnson wrote: > > I ended up with two during my experimentation - I ended up requesting access > twice, I got the same access is and password both times but different client > uuids. Both

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-14 Thread David Cousens
gnuGord, If you have ownership, possession and/or control of your house and car or any other resource then they are assets. Bank accounts are also assets for example. Your furniture, a boat, camper etc are all assets. If you have taken a loan out to buy them, the present value of that loan is a

[GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-14 Thread Bill Wohler
The documentation says that, "The check box Hidden marks this account (and any sub-accounts) to be hidden in the account tree and not appear in the pop-up account list in the register." However, hidden accounts are still appearing in the account pop-up for me (version 4.4). Is this a known bug?

Re: [GNC] USAA

2021-02-14 Thread John Ralls
Richard, For your first lesson, GnuCash developers don't accept personal emails. All communications goes through the lists. Second lesson: Everything you're asking is already explained in the 3 or 4 threads about USAA, one on gnucash-user and the other on gnucash-devel. I'll summarize them on

[GNC] Migrating to Linux Mint

2021-02-14 Thread W. Michael Schoel via gnucash-user
Hi Frank As I mentioned previously I am using GnuCash, the portable version, in windows and with your help I was able to very quickly migrate to V4.4 while keeping my older version intact. The nice thing about portable apps is one folder for each version. so copy one file and easy peasy I am up

Re: [GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-14 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Likewise: sudo apt install libgwengui-gtk3 libgwengui-gtk3-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgwengui-gtk3 On 2/14/21 2:53 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: to whoever is maintaining the

[GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-14 Thread Stephen M. Butler
to whoever is maintaining the https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies page. On Ubuntu 20.10, I got this message while installing the packages for AQ Banking.  Wiki may need a note regarding building on 20.10 sudo apt install gwenhywfar-tools libgwenhywfar60 libgwenhywfar60-dev

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-14 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/14/21 1:29 PM, gnu Gord wrote: First off I'll say I have no formal accounting training so I don't really understand accounting terminology or how it is represented in GnuCash. I understand the basic idea that Equity = Assets - Liabilities, but I'm unsure how this should be entered in

[GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-14 Thread gnu Gord
First off I'll say I have no formal accounting training so I don't really understand accounting terminology or how it is represented in GnuCash. I understand the basic idea that Equity = Assets - Liabilities, but I'm unsure how this should be entered in GnuCash. Specifically, my question is; how

[GNC] Fwd: Setup for downloading transactions for a financial institution

2021-02-14 Thread David Carlson
Please reply to all. As I implied in my previous email, I cannot help with online access. -- Forwarded message - From: Richard Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [GNC] Setup for downloading transactions for a financial institution To: David Carlson Thanks for the

Re: [GNC] Setup for downloading transactions for a financial institution

2021-02-14 Thread David Carlson
Richard, Welcome to the GnuCash User email. Regarding the column labels, there are some options in various places. One is under Edit > Preferences > Accounts, but there are also some others scattered around that change depending on whether you are using single line or two line view and Basic

Re: [GNC] UI question about 2.6...

2021-02-14 Thread David Carlson
Robert, I just fired up a copy of release 2.6.18 in Ubuntu 18.04. I did notice that there are mouse fly-over descriptions for toolbar icons. I did not find that option to show text with the icons, which I thought was still there. One other possibility would be to check out Gnome Tweaks, but I

[GNC] Setup for downloading transactions for a financial institution

2021-02-14 Thread Richard via gnucash-user
I am a new user. I have a few questions. Is there any way to change the column label on the account transaction display? Currently one of my columns is labeled Transfer. The items in that column are actually transaction categories. Next, when I attempted to link an account with a financial

[GNC] UI question about 2.6...

2021-02-14 Thread Robert Heller
I recently upgraded my OS from CentOS 6.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 and thus from GNUCash 2.4 to GNUCash 2.6. With GNUCash 2.6, the toolbar only has images for most of the tools. GNUCash 2.4 had a preference setting to display both text and images, but that preference seems to be missing in GNUCash

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] USAA FSB requires newer QWIN support

2021-02-14 Thread John Ralls
Well, there's a UUID in that URL, but I just tried using it for the ClientUUID and got "The user cannot signon because he or she entered an invalid user ID or password." Using the one scraped from Quicken for MacOS and reported in

Re: [GNC] Tab Rendering Flaw

2021-02-14 Thread A Harvey
I played around with it for a few minutes. I seem to be able to reproduce it. If I scroll back forth (using the arrows at the end of the row of tabs) repeatedly enough times, the label is removed from the tab and stays on the screen in the area a few lines below the tab area. If I right-click

[GNC] Minor issue with invoice layout

2021-02-14 Thread Howard M. Fried
Hello, I upgraded Gnucash from ver 3.2 to 4.4 (Mac OS 10.15). My custom invoice layout changed. Particularly, the Client information, which was flush with the left margin, is now moved much toward the center. Business information is OK. It is a trivial issue, but can the Client

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2021-02-14 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Additionally, I might suggest duplicating transactions for the dates in question. I do that all the time to catch up in accounts I rarely check. It's quite easy then to modify as needed. David T. Original Message From: David H Sent: Sun Feb 14 01:26:28 EST 2021 To: bdp3