Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-15 Thread Ankur Sinha
> Simply delete the budget you entered for the parent, and you’ll see it > now changes to a grey text as the sum of the children. Ah, yes. This does work. I don't know why it didn't before. I must've done something wrong. :( I'll close the bug. -- Thanks again, Regards, Ankur Sinha

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The function of ‘placeholder’ for the account is separate than the function of rolling up the totals of sub accounts in the budget module. As far as I can tell, they are not related in any way. I have several parent accounts that are not placeholders, but I don’t enter budgets for them, I only

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 07:52:17 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > Ankur, > > I suggest filing a bug report about that second point in the budget report > if you have already migrated to release 3.0 and you still see it there. > That report has been revised rather recently and I do not remember exactly

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 13 April 2018 at 11:11, Ankur Sinha wrote: > I've a query regarding placeholder accounts in the budget view too. My > "dining" account has two sub accounts: "drinks", and "food", for > example. Dining is a "placeholder" account and the values associated > with it show

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread David Carlson
Ankur, I suggest filing a bug report about that second point in the budget report if you have already migrated to release 3.0 and you still see it there. That report has been revised rather recently and I do not remember exactly when. I recall years ago there were some issues in that report

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 09:55:27 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: > for the first question try: > > view > filter by > other > > then put a check mark in the "show zero total accounts" box. Ah, yes, that worked. I had to check "show unused accounts". Thanks! > Not sure on the second, but the

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-13 Thread Ronal B Morse
for the first question try: view > filter by > other then put a check mark in the "show zero total accounts" box. Not sure on the second, but the fix may be as simple as reassigning the transaction to the correct expense account, i.e., something like ex:food:dining:drinks.  You should also

[GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, I was making my budget for the rest of the year today. I noticed that accounts that I've not used before do not show in the budget view. Would someone please tell me how to include them? For example, in my current flat, I do not pay a "council tax", so I've not made any entries under