2008-03-23 GnuCash IRC logs

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07:44:42 <edgy> hi, gnucash used to work properly. now I installed a new system and migrated the data but there seems a problem related to currency. I set my currency in preferences -> accounts/reports and when I enter a transaction it shows in my currency in the status bar but when I print it it shows in dollars!
07:45:09 <edgy> I also cannot pay the invoice now since it's not registered in the accounts receivable. it shows with no price
07:45:17 <edgy> warlord-afk: are you here?
07:45:53 <edgy> I remember your name is warlord but I don't know what afk stands for ;)
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08:35:16 <edgy> Umm! now I found afk stands for away from keyboard ;)
08:35:35 <edgy> but I couldn't still find a solution to my problem :(
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08:53:36 <warlord> edgy: I'm here now. I was asleep at 7:44am when you wrote this.
08:53:47 <warlord> edgy: the problem is your locale currency.
08:54:51 <warlord> When you create an invoice it caches the Customer's Currency and will use that. If that currency doesn't match your Income account or A/R currency then you'll see what you're seeing now.
08:55:27 <warlord> So the fix:
08:55:32 <warlord> 1) Check your locale currency
08:55:38 <warlord> 2) Check your Customer Currency setting
08:55:55 <warlord> 3) Check the Account currencies of your A/R and Income accounts
08:56:42 <warlord> 4) Unpost the invoice, then click on the "Edit Invoice" button, then click "Select Customer", then go through the select page and re-select the existing customer to get the invoice to update the currency.
08:56:46 <warlord> 5) Re-post the invoice.
08:56:49 <warlord> 6) Be happy.
09:08:58 <edgy> back
09:09:11 <edgy> warlord: thanks for the tips. l would follow it now...
09:09:49 <warlord> note that if your locale currency is wrong then you will need to restart gnucash to get it to take theupdated locale.
09:11:35 <edgy> warlord: the locale currency is the one at preferences -> account?
09:11:46 <warlord> No.
09:11:54 <warlord> It's part of your computer locale.
09:11:59 <warlord> (environment)
09:12:08 <warlord> open a terminal and run "locale"
09:12:35 <warlord> important settings are "LANG" and "LC_MONETARY"
09:13:00 <edgy> warlord: my locate is en_US.UTF-8 and I used to work with this locale before but set gnucah to a different locale
09:13:34 <warlord> so your locale currency is USD. Is that not correct?
09:14:10 <edgy> warlord: yes it's USD in locale and gnucash but I want to use SAR, so I choose it in preferences -> account, wrong?
09:14:29 <warlord> yes, wrong.
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09:14:49 <warlord> preferences -> account only affects what account gets created when you create a new account.
09:15:12 <warlord> You really want to reset your LC_MONETARY to the correct locale, whatever that is for SAR
09:17:25 <edgy> warlord: Umm! I will do but I don't remember I did this before!
09:17:56 <warlord> I'm sure you did.
09:18:03 <warlord> Or you set your Customer currency to SAR.
09:18:49 <edgy> warlord: ok I set the customer currency to SAR now ...
09:19:27 <warlord> Now follow the rest of the list
09:21:30 <edgy> warlord: wow! I am happy now ;)
09:21:42 <warlord> :)
09:22:20 <warlord> You will have "issues" running gnucash in a "foreign" locale.
09:22:28 <edgy> warlord: I am not rich so forgive me but I want to transfer $50 for you, how can I do it?
09:22:50 <warlord> the GnuCash Tip Jar.
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09:51:44 <edgy> warlord: should I have an account in paypal?
09:54:15 <warlord> I think you need one.
09:57:31 <edgy> warlord: thanks a lot for your help, I would try register an account on paypal and do the transfer today and if I have a choice I want it to go personally to you not the project in general
09:58:11 <warlord> While I appreciate the sentiment, going to the project is better. Besides, the tip-jar does wind up in my paypal account anyways.
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14:53:10 <Gnufan> hey guys
14:53:30 <Gnufan> do you know when the next version of gnu cash will be released?
14:54:11 <Gnufan> i am having a problem at the mo, i have to restart the app before it re-calculated the Assets & profits in the main window
15:21:26 <edgy> Gnufan: may be you don't need a new version but you need to fix your installation?
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17:43:30 <aardvaark> Hi all. I successfully installed gnucash and I saw an example in the user guide for entering stock information. How can I do the same for mutual funds?
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18:05:24 <warlord> aardvaark: exactly the same.
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