Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Hello, I moved from (originally) Bedford Accounting to Simply Accounting and can't remember when I was required to assign account numbers to all of my accounts, but I did. After getting started with Gnu Cash, I used the names of accounts to make transactions, but that got tiresome so I

Re: [GNC] Single User two Geographically Separate Computers

Hi Dean Thanks very much. I will now look further at cloud storage and arrangements for AQBanking. Peter > On 21 February 2021 at 17:00 Dean Gibson mailto:gnucash.st...@mailpen.com > wrote: > > > This is what I do, & it works fine. Note that settings, including > AQBanking info, is

Re: [GNC] Single User two Geographically Separate Computers

Hi David Thanks very much for your comprehensive reply. I am now more confident about using a cloud option. I will look at Drop Box as well as OneDrive. Peter > On 21 February 2021 at 17:26 David Cousens mailto:davidcous...@bigpond.com > wrote: > > > Peter > This works fine within the

Re: [GNC] Single User two Geographically Separate Computers

Peter This works fine within the limitations of the particular offline storage system you use. I currently have a number of my GnuCash files for personal finances stored in a folder and subfolders in my Dropbox account which I can currently access from any of my desktop, and two mobile laptops.

Re: [GNC] Single User two Geographically Separate Computers

This is what I do, & it works fine.  Note that settings, including AQBanking info, is stored in folders in your user area on each machine.  You can also share those through OneDrive, but that's a bit advanced. On 2021-02-20 19:40, Peter Williamson wrote: Hi I am a new gnucash user and would

[GNC] Single User two Geographically Separate Computers

Hi I am a new gnucash user and would like operate as a single user on two geographically separated computers. I would use each computer on alternate months depending on my location at the time. I am not very computer literate and I am proposing to use Onedrive to store my gnucash files and

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

I'm a beginner, too, and here's what I would do. This may be largely repetition of the previous discussion, but I'm repeating for clarity (I hope). To keep yourself honest and eliminate temporary confusions, display which accounts are placeholders: On the list of accounts, the header line starts

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Hi Gord Your revised example looks good to me, but I recommend you now move on to a creating your "real world" chart of accounts instead of these abstract examples. You can always add new accounts and revise the hierarchy as you go. Here is an example were you will find Levels selection

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Thank you to everyone that replied. I'm still a bit confused as to why I can select the accounts to include/exclude plus I can/need to select the level. It seems redundant to me but maybe in some situations it's required. In my example, it appears I have created my hierarchy incorrectly. The

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Some accounting software, e.g., Quickbooks, use a virtual leaf "Other" in reports to remove any ambiguity when there are transactions in a branch account which are not in a leaf. Thus a report for the situation L3 $100 transaction and L4 $500 transaction would display L3 L4 500 L3 -

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

You can file an RFE in Bugzilla. You could put it on overvoice. We have not had good success with crowd funded development. Depending on whether you want QIF or other methods, it's either Scheme of C hacking. Github PR is best option to submit code. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please

Re: [GNC] Lost Files update

> On 20 Feb 2021, at 16:10, Mahon Finbar wrote: > > Hello again, > > No reaction to my previous post. > > The list of files under gnucash are all dated 5 Feb 2018 should there be > something more recent? > > TIA for any reply Adrien responded yesterday at 19:33 (GMT), looking for more

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

By rules I mean the text used for matching, which is stored in the DB. But if regex can't be done that is truly a pity. Is there a way of getting change requests scheduled, and crowd funded? On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 18:25 Derek Atkins, wrote: > I don't know what "rules" you are talking about.

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

I don't know what "rules" you are talking about. The importers either use string matching or tokenized bayesian matching. There is no glob or regex matching. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On February 20, 2021 11:50:15 AM Paul Harmsworth wrote: Hi, It doesn't

[GNC] Lost Files update

Hello again, No reaction to my previous post. The list of files under gnucash are all dated 5 Feb 2018 should there be something more recent? TIA for any reply ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

Hi, It doesn't support editing the rules yet I can do that directly in the dB... So I am wondering if properly escaped * in the DB will perhaps work. This lack of user control of rules is a serious product limitation. Regards Paul On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 17:14 Derek Atkins, wrote: > Sorry, >

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

Sorry, Gnucash does not support wildcard matching for import mapping. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On February 20, 2021 11:11:19 AM Paul Harmsworth wrote: Hi, Interesting but I want to be able to use wild cards. I can edit the gnucash db and I want something

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

Hi, Interesting but I want to be able to use wild cards. I can edit the gnucash db and I want something like *zork* Doe anyone know how this can be done? Regards Paul On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 16:36 David Carlson, wrote: > Paul, > > You might look at for a

Re: [GNC] Wildcard matching on import

Paul, You might look at for a start. I am not sure if this page has been updated for the changes that were made when GnuCash added a way to edit the matching criteria. For general concept I would Google "Bayesian Matching" On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 7:50 AM

Re: [GNC] Creating new file and accounts

On 2021-02-20 00:02, David Carlson wrote: > I cannot say for certain as I am still using release 3.8, but I believe > that release 4.4 has had a major improvement to the account selector in > that it no longer requires strict entry of parent accounts in order to > select child accounts. I have

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

That was an excellent answer, and explains clearly a big reason why users should strive to limit their transactions to leaf nodes in the account hierarchy. (My own books include numerous violations of this premise, BTW) Gnucash has always allowed users to put transactions in intermediate

Re: [GNC] Expense Over Time report

Geoff, That was an excellent answer, and explains clearly a big reason why users should strive to limit their transactions to leaf nodes in the account hierarchy. (My own books include numerous violations of this premise, BTW) Gnucash has always allowed users to put transactions in

[GNC] Wildcard matching on import

Hi, I love Gnucash and have used it often. But, the lack of easy end user control of matching rules is annoying. Whilst I can easily edit the matching lines in the xml DB. I cannot figure out how to do wildcard matching. Is it possible to use some kind of escape chars in the xml to force

[GNC] Volunteer

I am very interested in supporting the group and be a volunteer if I happen to have any skills that could be used. Who is the group leader? Does the group have a written set of conduct rules and operation rules? If I donate $$ what is it used for? What are the needs of the group? Where can

Re: [GNC] Creating new file and accounts

David, This is my thoughts also, using the basic 'checking account' selection during account wizard creation keeps the parent accounts so no problem. Thanks both for super swift replies. *"Now that I think about it, you probably need to keep the top level accounts as they determine the

Re: [GNC] Creating new file and accounts

Thanks Geoff for the heads, and second your thanks to the dev team. Geoff wrote > James, good news - your reasoning is no longer valid. If you check the > release notes for version 4.0 you will see this sensational new feature > was released: > > "New type-ahead search added to sequential

Re: [GNC] Copying reports from one machine to another

I just use FreeFileSync to manually sync my Gnucash data file, saved reports, preferences and accelerator map between Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows. About to setup my NAS permanently soon so will just store there. Cheers David H. On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 18:12, wrote: > I jump between several

Re: [GNC] Copying reports from one machine to another

I jump between several machines (Windows and Linux) ... I keep my single Gnucash file in a shared folder on OneDrive that I can update from any machine. It's too bad there is no option to keep the custom reports in the same location as the gnucash file (or better yet, make them part of the

Re: [GNC] Creating new file and accounts

I cannot say for certain as I am still using release 3.8, but I believe that release 4.4 has had a major improvement to the account selector in that it no longer requires strict entry of parent accounts in order to select child accounts. Thus, if your primary concern is the number of keystrokes