Re: [GNC] Can I reverse the "deposit" and "withdrawal" columns for checkbook entry?

All these arguments hold very little water in the real world. The fact remains that the OP's bank does not follow the rules that some people think "should be." That bank is not alone in its practice. I interact regularly with three different financial institutions, only one of which follows

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

Yes, David, That is why YOU would want the imbalance account functionality. However, other people work differently. Some people have no need for that functionality and don’t like the creation of extra unneeded accounts. It would be nice if GnuCash worked well for everyone instead of forcing

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

Hi David, > I agree. There is a case for not displaying the Imbalance accounts in the CoA > tab if there are no entries to them, i.e. they are zero balance. This is an > option in reports but not in the account tab. They can of course be left in > the CoA and hidden in the Account tab by

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

> Actually you are given the opportunity to fix it during entry. When the > Imbalance account appears in a transaction in the account column, all you > have to do is click on it in the Account column and assign the correct > account from the drop down list, before closing (pressing Enter) the

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

Given the extremely long history of this question with many good people expressing good reasons on both sides of the debate, I would have expected the developers to give the user the choice. There should be a switch in the preferences that allows the user to decide if the necessary extra

Re: [GNC] Opening Multiple Data Accounts

> On Mar 3, 2021, at 11:50 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > To open a second file on a Mac (if you can -- I don't know), you would need > to run GnuCash from the Terminal and pass the filename on the commandline. I have been doing this for several months on a MacBook Pro running Catalina. The

Re: [GNC] Open two files at once

The command suggested by Robert Kesterson works very well for me. I have been using it in Terminal to keep two sets of books open while I found the time to create an automator script to add to my startup routine. Thank you for that, Robert. However, there is one small problem. Appending

Re: [GNC] Open two files at once

It would be very nice to be able to open two sets of books at the same time. Unfortunately, this procedure does not work on Mojave. When I issue this command in Terminal, GnuCash still tries to open the last opened file, which is, of course, still open as the first of the two documents I want

Re: [GNC] Customer Report versus Receivables Aging

Hi Christopher, Thank you for this suggestion. Unfortunately, I failed to mention that I'm running GnuCash on a Mac (Mojave, 10.14.6). I don't think the Windows repository you sent will help me much. I am willing to try the beta version of the reports if I can do that without jeopardizing my

Re: [GNC] Opening account with CR no longer works, also BS does not work

se the actual Page Up and Page Down keys. In both cases, the basic shortcut works as I discussed earlier. Best, John > On Sep 17, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > John Morris, > > For me (Mojave 10.14.6) the ESC key gets rid of the text entry window and the

Re: [GNC] Opening account with CR no longer works, also BS does not work

I think I am experiencing the same issue noted by the original poster. However, I don’t use GnuCash the same way, so I did not at first identify it as such. I’m using GnuCash 3.7 on two different machines: A 2014 15” MacBook Pro running Mojave (10.14.6) and a 2008 17” MacBook Pro running El

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

Hi Adrien, You were right, the changes I had made did have a bearing on this problem. However, they only reveal the miscoded HTML in GnuCash 3. Also, the changes in question are to the invoice report itself, not the stylesheet. It turns out that the relevant change I made is that we have no

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

Hi Adrien, > For starters, maybe give the default stylesheet a try and see if it gets you > close (or exactly) to what you want. The default now lets you include an > image, so you don’t *have* to use Fancy Invoice. Also, maybe play with the > banner size. If you don’t need it to be full-width,

Re: [GNC] Can't seem to load custom reports

Hi Adrien, I worked my way through the GnuCash wiki on loading custom reports at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Where_to_find_existing_reports. I made a tiny bit of headway, but not much. I have set up a new file called config-user.scm in ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

Hi Adrien, Thanks for looking into this issue as well. I will study the new procedure for loading reports as soon as I am able. > 1. My invoices (editing/viewing) all pad to the width of the window no matter > how I size it, so I’m not sure what you have going on. Maybe try > double-clicking

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

Hi Adrien, Thank you for looking into this issue. The transaction report is the main issue for me. Best, John > On Sep 9, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > John, > > I was hoping to get to test this as well pre-release, but didn’t get to. > > I can confirm that at least

[GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

Hi All, I have recently upgraded from Yosemite (macOS 10.10.5) to El Capitan (macOS 10.11.6) and Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) on two different machines. In the process, I have finally taken the leap from GnuCash 2.6.16 into the 3.x series. Until this morning, I was using 3.6 and I am now using 3.7.

[GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Weekly Reports

Hi All, First, I offer a hearty thank you to the developers for this new version of GnuCash. I really appreciate that my concern about the starting dates for weekly reports garnered someone’s attention. Unfortunately, the weekly reports are still not working correctly for me. In earlier

Re: [GNC] Version 3.7 on macOS 10.14.6

Hi Peter, I had the same results the first time I launched GnuCash 3.7. However, when I clicked it a second time in the Dock, it seemed to launch normally. I have not tested much, but it seems to be working. I’m running GnuCash 3.7+(2019-09-07) under El Capitan (10.11.6) on a 17” 2008

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Curiouser and curiouser. I just booted my 2014 MacBook Pro in Mojave. I was hoping to see good results, but I was disappointed. My experience on Mojave was identical to my experience on El Capitan. I first tried changing just the day of the week and creating a new set of books. Then, I tried

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Michael, Thank you for chiming in. This is very good news. Perhaps I just need to move further up the OS ladder. I'm currently working with a 2008 MacBook Pro that cannot run anything beyond El Capitan. However, I do also plan to move my 2014 MacBook Pro to Mojave. If it works correctly

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Adrien, Thanks for the clarification. I certainly agree that this could be a problem in GTK. I don't have enough information about GnuCash's inner workings to make that judgment. Best, John > On Aug 13, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > But I don’t think GnuCash is doing

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Catscrash, Thank you for confirming that at least someone can get GnuCash to use Monday as the first day of the week. Unfortunately, the pictures did not come through, but I believe you that it is working on your system. I'm not sure how to describe the report I'm referring to. On my

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Adrien, > How does first day of the week affect reports in GnuCash? The only report I > can think of that might be an issue is the Expenses/Income vs. Day of the > week, but each day is reported separately, though Sunday is listed first in > the key, it is a pie chart. All other date

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Frank, Thank you for thinking about my little problem. I don't understand why we would assume this is a bug in GTK. If GnuCash tells GTK to create a calendar with Sundays as the first day of the week, it should obey. The problem is that some code is not looking at the locale setting on

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Ken, Thanks for thinking about my little problem. However, I don't see how this would help. The regular Mac interface gives me the option to change the start of the week from the locale's default. GnuCash should be reading that change like all the other date-aware applications. It does

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi Adrien, Thank you for your interest. The first day of the week is, of course, a personal preference. However, because it is set to Monday everywhere else in my life, it would be more convenient if GnuCash were set similarly. Yes, I am aware of System Preferences > Language & Region; that

[GNC] First Day of the Week

Hi All, I've been using GnuCash for several years now, tolerating the bugs and idiosyncrasies on the hope that it would improve with time. That hope has been borne out to some degree, but I'm still waiting on many issues. It's been a while since I bothered to install a new version, so I am

Re: [GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

For what it's worth, I also set all my scheduled transactions. I used to see that message, but I have not seen it for a long time. I think the change happened when I got religious about unchecking the "Notify me when created" box in the Overview tab of the scheduler. However, that was a long

Re: Date entry quick keys

You don't say what operating system you use, and I don't know if this particular feature is operating-system dependent, but shift + and shift - give me one-week increments and decrements in 2.6.16 on Mac OS X. Best, John > On Jan 6, 2018, at 11:00 PM, AC wrote: > > Are

Re: What's the best way to model an electronic funds transfer pull with hold

Hi Nelson, Such is life in the real world. GnuCash is not designed for the real world, just a simplified approximation. GnuCash reports just one main balance. You can get more by using the reconciled, cleared, present, future minimum and total columns in the main Accounts tab, but that is

Re: Deleting an invoice or credit

rek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > > John Morris <johnj...@editide.us> writes: > >>> But you can edit it, including changing the customer involved and the >>> invoice number. So the next time you need an invoice or credit note, you >>> can just reus

Re: Window location

For what it's worth, I, too, have been bothered by this in the past. For me, the main issue is that the report-options window opens on top of the report and opens way too small to be particularly useful. Consequently, I have to move and resize that window every time I want to change the report

Re: Mac OS accelerator keys

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 4:35 AM, Deva - wrote: > > One peculiar observation though. I used as a tag on some shortcuts > while tagging the others with . I was expecting the ones to > invoked by using +key and the ones to be invoked by using > +key. > > However, on

Re: GNUCash value proposition

> If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it > was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is > very hard, and without a client that you carry with you it is virtually > impossible, even if one existed, it would be tedious. The fact is the > Bank