Re: [GNC] business Accounts Payable questions

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Jan 9, 2019, at 3:44 PM, Tim Kallmer wrote: > > i'm new to using GC for business. > > i don't understand the format and behavior Accounts Payable account. can > you explain the 'Ty' column that starts with '?', then toggles between 'I' > and 'P'? are these 'type', 'invoiced', and 'paid'?

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
No problem.  I solved this issue.  What I didn't realize was the dollar field was now expanded, so only a partial view of the price was being displayed.  Once I expanded the field. everything displays properly.  My bad :-( On 1/9/19 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Yes, sorry, that

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Ruth, Privacy settings of your browser should have no effect on the download or the file opening, but occasionally downloads don’t complete properly and can get corrupted. The solution is to simply re-download. Follow these steps *carefully*: 1. Download GnuCash 3.4, using either Safari or

Re: [GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

2019-01-09 Thread David Cousens
Normally the only way a reconciled transaction becomes unreconciled is if the split to the account which has been reconciled is editied, either in the register for the reconciled account or in another register conatining the split from the reconciled account to that registers. The splits of a

Re: [GNC] Does CSV importer work with foreign currencies?

2019-01-09 Thread David Cousens
A major problem with the CSV importer at present is fairly sparse documentation on the options and what their effect is. After making some changes in the import matcher towards the end of last year I started to update the documentation in that area but rapidly got out of my depth with

[GNC] Copy a month's budget

2019-01-09 Thread Patrick
Hello, I recently started using GnuCash. Is there a way to copy one month's budget to the next month? I have a budget with a large number of entries, and copying each entry individually is somewhat cumbersome. Any help is appeciated. Regards, Patrick

Re: [GNC] business Accounts Payable questions

2019-01-09 Thread David Cousens
Tim, The Accounts Payable account Type is explicitly tied into the Invoice Bills payments and Credit Notes etc of the business features. The I appears against transaction records in the register to indicate that these are generated by an Invoice and the P indicates a payment which can be linked

Re: [GNC] Does CSV importer work with foreign currencies?

2019-01-09 Thread D via gnucash-user
David, On January 10, 2019, at 4:01 AM, David Cousens wrote: >At the same time >david T was starting a reorganization of the concepts and tutorial guide. For the record, I am in favor of moving substantive content from Help to the Guide, which is what I think you're referring to here. I

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, sorry, that preference was added later. I didn’t read well enough of your post to notice you were in the 2.6 series. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:09 AM, Les wrote: > > Thanks David. > > I think you are right. > > Les > > On 1/9/19 10:07 AM, David Carlson wrote: >> I believe

Re: [GNC] Currencies not being converted

2019-01-09 Thread John Ralls
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. If “Get Quote” returns an error it means that either you don’t have online quote retrieval setup or that there’s a problem with it. Please study https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/currency_howto1.html

[GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

2019-01-09 Thread ringmaster
Hello, Over the past few months, GnuCash has been showing past items that were once reconciled as reconciled transactions. What once closed with a correct beginning amount is now showing a number of the previous months items now unreconciled. I have no idea what to do or what might be happening.

Re: [GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

2019-01-09 Thread D via gnucash-user
David's points here are all well-considered. See notes inline. On January 10, 2019, at 9:42 AM, David Cousens wrote: >Normally the only way a reconciled transaction becomes unreconciled is if the >split to the account which has been reconciled is editied, either in the >register for the

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/8/2019 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: The answer is probably in app-utils/calculation. All of that was probably written before Guile grew a rational number class and I think that GncNumerics get converted to doubles before being passed to the interest functions. That would pretty much

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 1/8/2019 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> The answer is probably in app-utils/calculation. All of that was probably >> written before Guile grew a rational number class and I think that >> GncNumerics get converted to

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
As far as I can determine, there is nothing in preferences that addresses this issue.  Also, there are only 2 maybe 20 investment accounts with this issue. Les On 1/9/19 8:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: Check preferences.

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> Check preferences. There is an option for this. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien > > While I may be wrong I thought this was only introduced in the 3.x series ? 3.3 and

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 9 januari 2019 12:51:45 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Check preferences. There is an option for this. > > Regards, > Adrien While I may be wrong I thought this was only introduced in the 3.x series ? Geert ___ gnucash-user mailing

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 8 januari 2019 22:11:29 CET schreef Colin Law: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:52, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > I am trying to get a better deb via Launchpad were we can put up a ppa > > for folks to point to. Probably name it "gnucash-daily", although I > > don't see it changing daily but

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Check preferences. There is an option for this. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 9, 2019, at 5:45 AM, Les wrote: > > I have two investment accounts that are not displaying decimals, but > fractions. All other investment accounts are displaying decimals (except > foreign accounts). How to fix this

[GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
I have two investment accounts that are not displaying decimals, but fractions.  All other investment accounts are displaying decimals (except foreign accounts).  How to fix this please?  This occurred after upgrading Linux Mint from 18.2 to 19.1 and GC from 2.6.17 to 2.6.21. Thanks, Les

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
With those numbers payment number 2 has an error. David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:23 AM David Carlson wrote: > I am working on a test scenario.The interest formula is ipmt( 0.03500 / > 12.00 : i : 180.00 : 172,000.00 : 0 : 0 ), the others have the same numbers > and the 71st payment contains

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I have created https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797032. David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:29 AM David Carlson wrote: > With those numbers payment number 2 has an error. > > David C > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:23 AM David Carlson > wrote: > >> I am working on a test scenario.The

Re: [GNC] Should the CSV Importer obey with the "automatic digital point" setting?

2019-01-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Christoph, I agree that's a bug. Can you file a bug report for this in our bug tracker please ? That way the report won't get lost. Thanks, Geert [1] Refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla on how to use our bug tracker Op dinsdag 8 januari 2019 17:34:24 CET schreef Christoph R: >

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I am working on a test scenario.The interest formula is ipmt( 0.03500 / 12.00 : i : 180.00 : 172,000.00 : 0 : 0 ), the others have the same numbers and the 71st payment contains the error. I am using these numbers because they are exactly the same as the numbers that have already generated an

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
Thanks David. I think you are right. Les On 1/9/19 10:07 AM, David Carlson wrote: I believe you just have to live with it in release 2.6.21 or several other releases below 3.3.  You should be able to manually re save any particular entry in decimal form if it is really bothering you, but

Re: [GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2019-01-09 Thread Jack Slater
It is indeed fixed. Thanks! On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 1:04 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I’m pretty sure it was included in 3.4 that was released at the end of > December. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 7, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Jack Slater wrote: > > > > Any news

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I believe you just have to live with it in release 2.6.21 or several other releases below 3.3. You should be able to manually re save any particular entry in decimal form if it is really bothering you, but why bother if it does not appear that way in reports? David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:52

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Fred Bone
On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 9:44, David Carlson said: > Absolutely, I was not expecting agreement with the bank, I just think the > creation of an unbalanced transaction is bad form. There is no reason to expect that taking three rational numbers A, B and C, such that A=B+C, converting to

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Les
Thanks for the suggestions, but I have already checked these accounts and they are the same as all the others (1/1). Les On 1/9/19 9:45 AM, Tom Teixeira wrote: Maybe try Tools>Security Editor. Check the "Fraction Traded" field for those securities which only show whole numbers. The other

Re: [GNC] Does CSV importer work with foreign currencies?

2019-01-09 Thread boldstripe
With the current CSV Importer interface, it is not immediately clear to me what exchange rate would be used for the conversion of an individual imported transaction to the base currency. My first assumption would be that the imported values are simply numbers and assume the currency of the

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Absolutely, I was not expecting agreement with the bank, I just think the creation of an unbalanced transaction is bad form. David Carlson On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 9:03 AM John Ralls > > > On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Michael or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > On 1/8/2019

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread Tom Teixeira
Maybe try Tools>Security Editor. Check the "Fraction Traded" field for those securities which only show whole numbers. The other place to look is "Smallest Fraction" field for the account itself, though as I recall, the default is "Use Commodity Value" which is set by the Security Editor. On

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 1/9/19 6:26 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 1/8/2019 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> The answer is probably in app-utils/calculation. All of that was >> probably written before Guile grew a rational number class and I >> think that GncNumerics get converted to doubles before being passed

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Yup! On the other hand, 1.29-0.71 = 0.58, so while one solution might be to create a transaction with those particular numbers, that method generates too much error for some calculations or combinations of values. That is why the developers are working to use real math whenever possible. I

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-09 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 1/9/19 3:36 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op dinsdag 8 januari 2019 22:11:29 CET schreef Colin Law: >> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:52, Stephen M. Butler wrote: >>> I am trying to get a better deb via Launchpad were we can put up a ppa >>> for folks to point to. Probably name it "gnucash-daily",

[GNC] business Accounts Payable questions

2019-01-09 Thread Tim Kallmer
i'm new to using GC for business. i don't understand the format and behavior Accounts Payable account. can you explain the 'Ty' column that starts with '?', then toggles between 'I' and 'P'? are these 'type', 'invoiced', and 'paid'? can you explain why the due date cell cannot be edited in 'I'

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-09 Thread Colin Law
Ruth, you sent this to me personally rather than to the group, so I am forwarding it to the group. You should not give up, there will be those on the list who know how to help. Colin On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 21:31, Ruth L. Mazur wrote: > I have spent too much time trying to get this app, so I