Re: [GNC] Changing the order of splits

2021-07-29 Thread Michael Hendry
On 29 Jul 2021, at 11:53, David Sumbler wrote: > > I have a set of accounts in which some transactions have a considerable > number of splits, each one relating to an individual person. All of > these splits have the same amount in the debit column, but the number > of splits in each of these

[GNC] Repeatable segmentation fault

2021-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
Here is the most recent crash report following a change to the date range of a saved report: Process: Gnucash [13484] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: 4.4-1 (4.4-1) Code Type:

Re: [GNC] Repeatable segmentation fault

2021-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
split the single deposit from the Club’s bank account into the Charity’s as ten individual transactions, and experiment with various combined deposits into BookA. Michael > On 19 Dec 2021, at 08:06, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Here is the most recent crash report following a change to the d

Re: [GNC] Export Current Search

2021-11-02 Thread Michael Hendry
On 2 Nov 2021, at 07:31, Mike Stillingfleet wrote: > > Dear GNUCash Forum, > > Firstly I how that I have posted this correctly. > > I have read in the GNU Cash help that if I have focus on the current search I > should see 4 export options and one of those will be File->Export->Export >

[GNC] Has bugs-admin been hacked? Re: [Bug 797953] RFE: provide access to filter-by on right-mouse-click in Accounts register

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve received several emails like this recently, all ostensibly related to bugs I had reported, but the text is not relevant to the bug, and has numerous suspicious URLs which I haven’t followed. The text doesn’t appear in the comments section relating to the bugs. Michael Hendry > On 4

Re: [GNC] Has bugs-admin been hacked? Re: [Bug 797953] RFE: provide access to filter-by on right-mouse-click in Accounts register

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Hendry
s are thieves stealing developer time! > > Am 05.11.21 um 11:22 schrieb Michael Hendry: >> I’ve received several emails like this recently, all ostensibly related to >> bugs I had reported, but the text is not relevant to the bug, and has >> numerous suspicious URL

Re: [GNC] Report printing of annual transactions

2021-11-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Nov 2021, at 17:37, sydnorbill...@bellsouth.net wrote: > > I had posted previously in trying to print a volume of year/y transactions > for a reference compilation in black and white of all entries in account > number order for any given year, I couldn't get the amounts to be included, >

Re: [GNC] question from newbie

2021-11-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 6 Nov 2021, at 21:40, Shevach Pepper wrote: > > Hello there, > 'I'm having trouble on how to record buying groceries on Jan. 1 with a > head check for Feb. 1 > What I understood from the manual that this is not an expense but a > liablity but I don't understand if I should make two

Re: [GNC] Where would enter revenue that could be paid to shareholders?

2021-12-05 Thread Michael Hendry
On 5 Dec 2021, at 11:39, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > If a company can potentially pay out X pounds, but has not paid out any at > all, where would that be entered in GnuCash? I assume its a liability, but > should it be entered into liabilities, or perhaps retained earnings? I’m not an

Re: [GNC] change default behavior of ctrl-PgDn

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Hendry
On 25 Mar 2022, at 01:45, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I don't think the date itself is relevant. What you want is to get to a new > blank transaction, correct? > > I have the same problem using 4.9 on MacOS BigSur. I'm not sure when this > started. As far as I know, there is no preference.

Re: [GNC] change default behavior of ctrl-PgDn

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Hendry
As an alternative way to enter several transactions earlier than the current date and leave the cursor at the bottom, you could try filtering the current view of an account in the register so that only the most recent transactions are visible. That way, when you complete the historic

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
I do the bookkeeping for my Rotary Club, and have to keep track of individual donations from members in order to claim Gift Aid on these donations. I’m constrained in that I need to keep the donors’ names confidential in reports to the club but need to identify the donors for the claim to HMRC.

Re: [GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

2023-09-12 Thread Michael Hendry
On 12 Sep 2023, at 18:17, George Riner wrote: > > I really wish there was a keyboard shortcut to open/close the Splits on the > transaction I'm in. > > Is there some edit I can make to a file somewhere in gnucash that would make > this effect? > > :George > > GnuCash Version: 4.13 > Build

[GNC] Crash report

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
ash as being involved, Is this of any use to the development team? I could obviously send the whole report as an attachment if that would help. Regards, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Proc

Re: [GNC] DOS Payroll, Inventory, A/R, A/P, and G/L program

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
On 1 Nov 2023, at 14:47, Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > On Tue, Oct 31 at 6:40 AM Michael Hendry wrote: > >I have some accounts in TAS Books which > >I created and maintained on Windows XP > > Me too. I’v

Re: [GNC] Crash report

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hendry
On 2 Nov 2023, at 03:16, john wrote: > > Michael, > > That's enough of the crash report to figure out what's going on: It needs a > NULL check before the GTK_IS_WIDGET at >

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
In the process of examining a bug in the MRU a couple of years ago, I asked about adjusting the maximum number of files in the MRU, and was told (by John Ralls?) how to do this on my iMac - I now have 6. Unfortunately, I can’t trace the correspondence now, and no doubt the configuration of

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
On 28 Apr 2022, at 11:00, David H wrote: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user > Thanks, David, Here’s a link into the thread I was looking for: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094869.html Michael

Re: [GNC] Zero balances in report

2022-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Aug 2022, at 14:08, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > I am running Linux and GnuCash 4.11 > I do an Account Summary report. > I have set the options to not show zero balances. > Yet, the report shows many zero balances. > The attached screen shot shows part of the report > along with the options. >

[GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I don’t think I should be advising others to do so.

Re: [GNC] Saved Report Configurations

2023-02-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Feb 2023, at 16:39, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I do the same. I have general configurations saved, but anything particular > to that solitary instance of the report, I do not save as part of the > configuration. Those will be one-offs so no need to save them as a config, > just run

Re: [GNC] Entry of unknown transaction

2023-02-04 Thread Michael Hendry
On 4 Feb 2023, at 11:58, Jeff wrote: > > I have discovered several transactions that show up in one account but do not > show up in any other existing account. Regardless of what the bank image > shows of where the check was deposited. > > I.E. I have a deposit slip that shows it went to

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Jul 2023, at 08:01, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:51:39PM -0700, Vincent Dawans wrote: >> Leaving aside the why you need 2 sets of books, I'll just focus on the how. >> >> First you need to decide if the money in and money out really needs to be >> classified as

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Jul 2023, at 11:28, Chris Green wrote: > >> > I occasionally run two copies of GnuCash and there don't appear to be > any significant issues when I do this. It's quite a rare occurrence > though as, with small (one year only) database files a GnuCash > instance starts very quickly so I

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Michael Hendry
On 14 Jul 2023, at 13:24, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 01:06:36PM +0100, Maf. King wrote: >> On Friday, 14 July 2023 12:34:28 BST Fross, Michael wrote: >>> I run multiple instances at the same time, but you have to open different >>> data files. I’d keep them in different

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael Hendry
Thanks, Michael. IIRC, we exchanged some posts on the list some years ago, when I created Liability accounts for donations that were earmarked by the donors for particular purposes and later had to backtrack, following the advice of the accountant who examines our books. Indeed, I think you

[GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-05-31 Thread Michael Hendry
More of a bookkeeping query than a GnuCash problem, but here goes… I am a trustee of a local jazz education charity, the main event being a jazz summer school with residential and non-residential options. We offer discounts of 5% for two or more family members attending, 10% for group

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael Hendry
On 1 Jun 2023, at 02:50, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > > michael > > for Bursary accounting purposes you can use the liability option > > Bursary account funding from the donor > Cr Liability: Bursary:Donor 1 : $1000 > Dr Assets: Bank : $ 1000 > Payment to student invoice > Dr Assets: Bank :

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-05-31 Thread Michael Hendry
On 31 May 2023, at 20:46, Vincent Dawans wrote: > > Personally I would create your Discounts and Bursary accounts as income > accounts, possibly even as subaccounts of your main income account for that > product/service. Yes they will only have rebates (debits) in them, but they > are not an

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-21 Thread Michael Hendry
Hello again Chris. Comments inserted below: On 21 Jul 2023, at 09:09, Chris Green wrote: > > I quite often seem to have cases where several 'items' (see below for > the type of thing I mean) are paid for with a single payment to/from a > bank account. What is a good way to record this sort

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Michael Hendry
On 24 Jul 2023, at 12:05, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:06:26AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: >> On Monday, 24 July 2023 10:38:35 BST Chris Green wrote: >>> Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem >>> to quite address my question, probably because I'm

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-22 Thread Michael Hendry
On 22 Jul 2023, at 17:58, c...@isbd.net wrote: >> > But what if one has cash from two collections to go to the same account. > I.e. a collection on 22nd July and a collection on 29th July both > paid in at the same time? > Record the collections individually as Assets:Current Assets:Cash

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Michael Hendry
On 23 Jul 2023, at 10:03, Chris Green wrote: > >> > Petty Cash is also used in the UK for this. …but is primarily a mechanism used for staff to make small purchases of office sundries where setting up an account with the vendor is unnecessary and it’s not appropriate for the member of

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Aug 2023, at 10:46, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > OK, lets try to get to the bottom of this. > > When I say I have had issues, I am unaware that I should not take the > suggestion of 'open anyway' unless > > I have tried several times to get an answer to why I have had

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 23 Jul 2023, at 12:02, Fred Bone wrote: > > But aren't you supposed to record each collection separately for GASDS > purposes? What happens if the two weeks are in different tax years? Ah, I hadn’t thought about that aspect, but Chris had mentioned earlier that as his church is not a

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-05 Thread Michael Hendry
Thanks all, I eventually found this line in the accelerator-map file ; (gtk_accel_path "/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/JumpLinkedInvoiceAction" “”) and edited it so that it now reads (gtk_accel_path "/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/JumpTransactionAction" "j”) If I remember correctly, the

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-04 Thread Michael Hendry
mbination is commented out in the accelerator map file. I’ll have a look at the release notes. Regards, Michael > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 5/4/23 9:12 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> On Tuesday (2nd May) I upgraded to version 5.1.1 on my iMac (Ventura >> 13.3.1), and ha

[GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-04 Thread Michael Hendry
On Tuesday (2nd May) I upgraded to version 5.1.1 on my iMac (Ventura 13.3.1), and have lost the use of Cmd-1, Cmd-2 and Cmd-3 as keyboard accelerators to change between Basic Ledger, Autosplit Ledger and Transaction Journal views. Cmd-j switches between accounts, as before. The accelerator-map

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-05 Thread Michael Hendry
On 5 May 2023, at 03:10, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > > added note this was installed as per 4.9 release notes. > > --- > Change the handling of accelerator maps. Gtk

[GNC] Extract from Crash Report

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hendry
, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Process: Gnucash [90913] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Apr 2024, at 01:45, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my "Housing" >

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-26 Thread Michael Hendry
Hi, Michael, We’ve corresponded about this in the past. I was keen to keep track of restricted funds within GC in a way which would make unspent restricted income persist as restricted funds beyond the year end, and you suggested the use of a Liability account for this purpose, Unfortunately,

[GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
report if that would be useful. Regards, Michael Hendry Process: Gnucash [48185] Path: /Applications/Gnucash 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: 5.5-1 (5.5-1) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent

[GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
Further to my recent crash report: Start to reconcile a bank account. Edit a pension payment during reconciliation because the regular payment has gone up Open the Scheduled Transaction editor and adjust for new payment. Go on with the reconciliation until the next pension increase prompts

Re: [GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
, but there are plenty of other things I can find to do in the meantime on this fine sunny day in Scotland. Michael > On 23 Jun 2024, at 08:19, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Here are the first few lines of a crash report that came up this morning as I > was reconciling a credit card account. I’m not

Re: [GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Hendry via gnucash-user
g and reinstalling 3.5-1, with no change in the outcome. Where do I go from here? Michael Hendry > > >> On May 1, 2019, at 8:32 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 1 May 2019, at 16:02, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> O

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry via gnucash-user
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:07, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to include that in order to see the Income option for type, > you need to first choose an Income account as a parent. (or make it another > top level account) > > Regards, > Adrien Thanks, Adrien. That solved the

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