[GNC] Income & Expense Reports

[Richard Marmor]

   I'm relatively new to Gnucash (now running 2.6.21 in Win 8.1). I
   have been unable to find answers online to two issues I have when
   creating Income & Expense reports in Gnucash.
   Issue 1: Year-To-Date Column
   I have found no way to add a YTD column to a monthly I & E report.
   Is it even possible?
   I have been able to create a multi-column custom report, with one
   half being a complete current month report and the other half
   being a complete YTD report, but that is a really poor substitute.
   For one thing, for any given account there may be no entries in
   the current month, while YTD that account may have a balance. So
   unless I want really long reports listing every account and and
   lots of zeros, there is little or no parallelism between the two
   side-by-side reports.
   Issue 2: Net Losses as Negative
   Where I grew up, net losses always appeared as negative numbers
   following the description "Net Profit/(Loss)."  Gnucash insists
   on reflecting them as positive numbers beside a "Net Loss" title.
   That issue actually passes through to the balance sheet as well,
   it being more descriptive to see a positive Equity figure reduced
   by a negative "Retained Earnings/(Losses)" figure.
   Is there a way to effect this change?
   If the answers are "not possible" to those issues, I would strongly
   like to see them added to a future features agenda.
   Thank you for any help.
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[GNC] Digest, V 181, I 72, M 8: "Help" (Locked Files)

[Richard Marmor]

   With Gnucash closed, go to the Gnucash's data files. There, find and
   delete
   any files with the suffix .LNK or .LCK  then restart Gnucash.
   Source: section 2.6.3 at
   [1]https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.htm
   l
   At 11:23 AM Monday, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote:

 Message: 8
 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:43:02 +0300
 From: Lesley Burton 
 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
 Subject: [GNC] Help
 Message-ID: <1523900582.20891...@f11.my.com>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
 I updated GNU-cash last month with the update and am unable to open
 my accounts now I keep getting an error message saying ?Gnucash
 could not obtain the lock for [2]file://C: followed by the path and
 underbit saying the database is in use by another user. If I ask it
 to open anyway it just all closes down. I am running windows 10!
 Many thanks
 Lesley

References

   1. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
   2. file://\\C\/
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Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 181, Issue 68, Message 12: Locked Data Files

[Richard Marmor]

   With Gnucash closed, go to the Gnucash's data files. There, find and
   delete
   any files with the suffix .LNK or .LCK  then restart Gnucash.
   (see: �2.6.3 @
   [1]https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.htm
   l )

 Message: 12
 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 06:17:20 -0700
 From: Alan Schold 
 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
 Subject: Re: [GNC] Version 3
 Message-ID: <165c0c02-8856-ce64-2ddd-516cb2664...@q.com>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
 Tried a few simple things without success to noavail. I reinstalled
 2.6.21, and everything works fine. Interesting tho, every time I
 tried
 to run the 3.0 version there was a lock on the data even tho I had
 never
 been able to open any data. Id' love to be able to use 3.0 but not
 yet
 On 4/14/2018 8:35 AM, Alan Schold wrote:
 > I download and ran the new, stable version 3.0. When I click on
 the
 > desktop icon I first get a notice that my Gnucash data file is
 locked.
 > Since I properly closed the file before I upgraded I click on
 "open
 > anyway". After some delay a box appears named Microsoft C++ Visual
 > Runtime Library. It says
 >
 > /Runtime Error!/
 >
 > /Program: C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash.exe/
 >
 > /This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
 > unusual way./
 >
 > /Please contact the application's support team for more
 information. OK/
 >
 > After that there is no more activity. I cannot get to the program
 at all
 >
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References

   1. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
   2. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
   3. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
   4. http://www.avg.com/
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[GNC] 3.0 Install Fails

[Richard Marmor]

   In Windows 8.1 I run 2.6.21 without problems; 3.0 is another story.
   3.0 will not install at all. Installation attempts freeze about 33%
   into the
   install process. I have tried 4 times including using different
   downloads in
   case of corrupted files, always with the same result.
   I did manage to get 3.0 to install with Windows in Safe Mode, but after
   re-
   turning to Regular Mode, when 3.0 starts up, I receive an error message
   that
   Gnucash is seeking a disk in an obscure back (memory card) drive, and I
   can't
   make the message go away or move past it.
   For the record, what I could see of 3.0 looked odd, too, kind of spread
   out,
   not identical to the 2.6 versions I had run.
   I ultimately had no choice but to uninstall 3.0 and reinstall 2.6.21.
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[GNC] Add a Line-Feed to Report Title

[Richard Marmor]

In Gnucash 2.6.21, the standard report title for an Income Statement reads:

(Company Name)(Report Title) For Period Covering (start date) to 
(end date)


which for my purposes is too lengthy.

In the report's generator file, income-statement.scm, I found this:

(gnc:html-document-set-title!
 doc (sprintf #f
 (string-append "%s %s "
  (_ "For Period Covering %s to %s"))
 company-name report-title
   (gnc-print-date start-date-printable)
   (gnc-print-date end-date-tp)))

Can someone tell me how to modify it so as to insert a line feed so the report
title will appear on two lines as:

(Company Name)(Report Title)
For Period Covering (start date) to (end date)

I am not a programmer.  I tried reading some of the help information among the
SCM files, but frankly it was all Greek to me.

Help...

Thanks!

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Re: [GNC] I just need a line feed

[Richard Marmor]

   Thank you for the prompt reply!
   It worked!
   After a couple of failed tries, I found that it works if the  is
   inserted inside of the closing quotes:
   (string-append "%s %s "
   Much appreciated.
   At 01:45 PM Thursday, Derek Atkins wrote:

 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
 Hi,
 On Thu, February 7, 2019 3:34 pm, Richard Marmor wrote:
 [snip]
 >(gnc:html-document-set-title!
 > doc (sprintf #f
 > (string-append "%s %s "   <-- add  here
 >  (_ "For Period Covering %s to %s"))
 > company-name report-title
 >   (gnc-print-date start-date-printable)
 >   (gnc-print-date end-date-tp)))
 >Can someone please tell me how to modify that to insert a line
 feed
 >so the report title will appear on two lines as:
 >   [Company Name][Report Title]
 >For Period Covering [start date] to [end date]
 >I am not a programmer.  I tried reading some of the help
 information
 >among the SCM files, but frankly it was all Greek to me. Help
 would
 >be appreciated.
 Have you tried adding  at the end of the "%s %s" above?
 >Thank you!
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Computer and Internet Security Consultant

References

   1. http://www.ihtfp.com/
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[GNC] I just need a line feed

[Richard Marmor]

   On 1/27 I posted the request for help below to which there have been
   no replies.  Is there no one out there who understands .SCM files?
   Help . . .
   ---
   --
   In Gnucash 2.6.21, the standard report title for an Income Statement
   appears as:
   [Company Name][Report Title] For Period Covering [start date] to [end
   date]
   all on one long line, which for my purposes is too lengthy.
   In the report's generator file, income-statement.scm, I found this:
   (gnc:html-document-set-title!
doc (sprintf #f
(string-append "%s %s "
 (_ "For Period Covering %s to %s"))
company-name report-title
  (gnc-print-date start-date-printable)
  (gnc-print-date end-date-tp)))
   Can someone please tell me how to modify that to insert a line feed
   so the report title will appear on two lines as:
  [Company Name][Report Title]
   For Period Covering [start date] to [end date]
   I am not a programmer.  I tried reading some of the help information
   among the SCM files, but frankly it was all Greek to me. Help would
   be appreciated.
   Thank you!
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