Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote not Working on Macbook

2021-02-15 Thread Geoff
Hi BP Background: To retrieve price data, GnuCash depends on a Perl module called Finance-Quote. Finance-Quote depends on other Perl modules, including one called Date-Manip. Date-Manip in turn also depends on other Perl modules. These modules may depend on further Perl modules. Etc etc. Most

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2021-02-15 Thread David H
lj, I'm Pretty sure you're correct on that. I have tried previously to update Scheduled Txns so I could delete incorrect ones and recreate them from a certain date but without success. I've never found anything to reset the last occurred date recorded in Gnucash and invariably ended up manually

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote not Working on Macbook

2021-02-15 Thread bdp3
Thanks, John, for the suggestion. It ran--produced a lot of activity in the Terminal window. The problems started immediately. This message was first... Unsatisfied dependencies detected during SBECK/Date-Manip-6.83.tar.gz

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-15 Thread D. via gnucash-user
That's always been true, and it's not a bug. As noted in the comments of the bug I cited, "Placeholder" might better be considered and named "Read Only." Original Message From: Adrien Monteleone Sent: Mon Feb 15 17:05:18 EST 2021 To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject:

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote not Working on Macbook

2021-02-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 15, 2021, at 5:47 PM, bdp3 wrote: > > Is anyone else having trouble making F:Q work on a Mac? If not, maybe you > can help me—I’m new here and I just don’t ‘get it’! > > I’m using GnuCash_4.4 on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave). > > I downloaded version 1.49 from SourceForge. There’s an

[GNC] getting other account types on expense report

2021-02-15 Thread J. David Beutel
I recently switched from paying rent to a mortgage.  I have a Liabilities account with my mortgage principal, which I pay down every month with part of my mortgage payment, which comes directly from an Income account.  I like the Expense Barchart report, but is there some way I can add the

[GNC] Finance::Quote not Working on Macbook

2021-02-15 Thread bdp3
Is anyone else having trouble making F:Q work on a Mac?  If not, maybe you can help me—I’m new here and I just don’t ‘get it’!  I’m using GnuCash_4.4 on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave).  I downloaded version 1.49 from SourceForge.  There’s an ‘Applications’ folder at the hard-drive level, and an

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Strangely nearly all quick-serve businesses stopped offering receipts about 18-24 months ago. (at least in my neck-o-the-woods) Their printers were spitting them out mind you, but they would quickly just crumple and toss them. I'm sure I annoyed a few cashiers by asking for it. I even told one

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions

2021-02-15 Thread lj
I am pretty sure that does NOT work. You can change the start date for a scheduled transaction forward, or backwards, or change the transaction to non-repeating and then back to repeating... and the "last triggered" date will not change. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think editing the

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-15 Thread Larry Long
Thanks for the illuminating responses from Stan, Adrien and Michael! It reminds me of years ago when my wife had to start reporting her business expenses and she had a hard time remembering to always get a receipt.One day I finally said "You have two hands. Hold both of them out with your palms

Re: [GNC] USAA online setup

2021-02-15 Thread John Ralls
That might be a older AQBanking6 issue. Try creating a dummy account on the AQBanking Setup Dialog's Accounts tab then go back to Users and retrieve your USAA accounts again. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 15, 2021, at 12:28 PM, Richard via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I followed the

Re: [GNC] Lists

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The auto-fill is a feature of GTK then and GnuCash just gets to take advantage of it? Regards, Adrien On 2/15/21 5:42 PM, David Carlson wrote: You won't find that first list in the help manual because it does not exist in GnuCash. Right now the GnuCash.org server is down, else You may find

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts? (Stan Brown)

2021-02-15 Thread Stan Brown
On 2021-02-15 14:12, Larry Long wrote: > Stan, > You gave an excellent intro into the fundamentals of accounting (and GnuCash)! > I would like to follow up with a basic question of my own. > Let's say that I have added my new car's value to Assets and my auto loan to > Liabilities.After a

Re: [GNC] Lists

2021-02-15 Thread David Carlson
You won't find that first list in the help manual because it does not exist in GnuCash. Right now the GnuCash.org server is down, else You may find it mentioned in their wish list section for new features. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:35 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts? (Stan Brown)

2021-02-15 Thread gnu Gord
Thank you very much to all that replied. There are, obviously, a lot of people out there with a much deeper understanding of this than I currently have (or probably ever will) and I thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am slowly getting a handle on the overall concepts and

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 2/15/21 4:37 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 2/15/2021 5:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: (technically, Income & Expenses are 'temporary' Equity accounts, but GnuCash gives them their own 'top-level' with Assets, Equity & Liabilities. In the pen days, you closed these out at the

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/15/2021 5:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: (technically, Income & Expenses are 'temporary' Equity accounts, but GnuCash gives them their own 'top-level' with Assets, Equity & Liabilities. In the pen days, you closed these out at the end of the year to Retained Earnings, also an Equity

Re: [GNC] Lists

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm not certain about the first one. How you get to it might depend on which data format you are saving. For the second, GnuCash doesn't have 'categories'. What would be similar to categories from something like Quicken, are called Accounts. And those are editable on the main tab in GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Minor issue with invoice layout

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Play with the Layout tab in Options for the Invoice Report. There is also a custom CSS box available if you want to dig that far. Regards, Adrien On 2/14/21 11:47 AM, Howard M. Fried wrote: Hello, I upgraded Gnucash from ver 3.2 to 4.4 (Mac OS 10.15).  My custom invoice layout changed. 

Re: [GNC] TD Ameritrade OFX Direct

2021-02-15 Thread Keith Bellairs
Thanks. I'll take a look at ofx.py. I was puzzled since the wizard setup in GNC goes to a place that brings back no data. But Quicken gets both the portfolio and transactions. Anyway, I'm more of a buy and hold kind of guy, so not that much data entry. If I were a day trader it would be a bigger

Re: [GNC] Lists

2021-02-15 Thread David Carlson
Hit F1 while GnuCash is running. Then read the help manual. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:21 PM Richard via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Could someone please tell me where the memorized payee list is stored > and how to add or delete one? > > Also, where is the category list

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

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I thought that change was made in the move to 3.x, but perhaps the UI was affected for the final releases of 2.6 as well. One of the early 3.x versions switched back to showing both text and buttons. Perhaps consider trying the Flatpak version. That way you can move up to the current 4.4.

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

2021-02-15 Thread Randy Johnson
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 client uuids I got as well as the published one worked for me. Quick check, did you capitalize the letters in the uuid? Someone

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

2021-02-15 Thread Randy Johnson
The CLIENTUID is also part of the URL that you get sent to after completing https://df3cx-services.1fsapi.com/casm/usaa/enroll (or usaa.com/accessid , not sure which is preferred), hopefully avoiding the need to install Quicken. -Randy On Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 5:29 PM Bob White via gnucash-devel <

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts? (Stan Brown)

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Generally yes, but that usually is not done for a personal vehicle unless you are allowed to do so for some type of credit or deduction on taxes. Businesses routinely depreciate their fleets however. The rules are varied and myriad as to what you are allowed to do. Regards, Adrien On 2/15/21

[GNC] Lists

2021-02-15 Thread Richard via gnucash-user
Could someone please tell me where the memorized payee list is stored and how to add or delete one? Also, where is the category list stored and how do I edit it? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Reverse all transactions

2021-02-15 Thread Anton Gladky
Dear all, thanks for all your comments. It helped me to migrate the database into a proper state. >If you have a file holding the original transactions, then you should be > able to import them twice. Once to reverse the transactions original > entry. The second time to get them entered

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts?

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While this may seem pedantic (and maybe it is), most texts present the Accounting Equation as: Assets = Liabilities + Equity Balance Sheets are based off this arrangement of the equation. That is why you will generally see an Asset section first, with a total, and then a second section

Re: [GNC] Asset vs Equity accounts? (Stan Brown)

2021-02-15 Thread Larry Long
Stan, You gave an excellent intro into the fundamentals of accounting (and GnuCash)!I would like to follow up with a basic question of my own. Let's say that I have added my new car's value to Assets and my auto loan to Liabilities.After a year, I log the car's depreciation as a reduction to

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Neat. I learn something new. Thanks! Regards, Adrien On 2/14/21 11:20 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: 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

Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups

2021-02-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can mark an account that contains transactions as a placeholder? I didn't think that was possible. Sounds like another bug. Regards, Adrien On 2/14/21 10:22 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: Yep. That's how it is. To hide accounts in the popup, you also have to set it as a placeholder. Cf.

[GNC] USAA online setup

2021-02-15 Thread Richard via gnucash-user
I followed the instructions at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings It did not work for me. I don't know if I missed some little input or what. I did not understand a lot of the labels for input. I did not receive an error message. It appear to go through the

Re: [GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-15 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Sorry.  Time. Bit Bucket.  Overflow bin.  Besides, it will be outdated in 6 months anyway. On 2/14/21 4:22 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: 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. :

Re: [GNC] Dependency Page

2021-02-15 Thread Stephen M. Butler
1.  Need a round tuit. 2.  Lack of knowledge (someday -- probably not soon). 3.  When the bit bucket gets full just dump into the overflow bin. On 2/14/21 4:44 PM, David Cousens wrote: Stephen I have been meaning to an update of the dependencies page on the wiki for V4 for some time but have

Re: [GNC] Tab Rendering Flaw

2021-02-15 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:03 AM John Ralls wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Tommy Trussell > wrote: > > > > I noticed this morning John Ralls pushed an update to the Flatpak so I > > installed the update. I am now running the latest flatpak version > (Version: > > 4.4 Build ID:

Re: [GNC] Tab Rendering Flaw

2021-02-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 15, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > I noticed this morning John Ralls pushed an update to the Flatpak so I > installed the update. I am now running the latest flatpak version (Version: > 4.4 Build ID: Flathub 4.4-4). It's still behaving similarly It's still the 4.4

Re: [GNC] Tab Rendering Flaw

2021-02-15 Thread Tommy Trussell
Thanks for the workaround. I just confirmed that some combination of right-clicks (bringing up the menu) and left clicks restores the tab label to its proper position. I noticed this morning John Ralls pushed an update to the Flatpak so I installed the update. I am now running the latest flatpak

Re: [GNC] TD Ameritrade OFX Direct

2021-02-15 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
As of late last year, Martin was going to see if he could make the stocks/mutual funds ofx transaction work well in aqbanking. I don’t know how far he got, since he doesn’t have any of his own accounts to test that functionality with. You might not be doing anything wrong. And fixing it might

[GNC] TD Ameritrade OFX Direct

2021-02-15 Thread Keith Bellairs
Quicken is able to download brokerage account transactions from Ameritrade. I can configure Online Banking in GNC with my user info, retrieve accounts, and link the accounts to my GNC accounts. But when I try to Get Transactions the ameritrade server accepts my connection and returns a HTTP