2010-02-07 GnuCash IRC logs
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03:45:52 <waterdragon> Hey All.
03:46:10 <waterdragon> I am trying to develop a custom report using the equile setup.
03:46:39 <waterdragon> I am wondering if there is documentation for gnucash specific functions like xaxxSplitGetAmount anywhere.
03:49:49 <waterdragon> Thanks in advance.
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05:21:14 <itsols> Hello, I've just seen the wonderful GnuCash program. Is there a good tutorial that teaches how to relate my business tasks to gnucash? For example, I want to know how to record my sales without entering all the invoice details... BTW, I have learnt some basic accounting but just can't relate that to gnucash and the work I do. Thank you in advance
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06:58:06 <kimmo> http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gnucash+business+tutorial
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07:04:25 <ecto> I've got an issue that I've reported before, but since I couldn't properly cleanse my OFX/QFX files and submit them to the bug tracker, it never got solved
07:04:48 <ecto> I got fed up with Quicken, so now I'm trying to get back into Gnucash
07:04:55 <ecto> Here's my usage model:
07:05:32 <ecto> I don't enter in ANY manual transactions, I load everything from my bank through the supplied QFX files
07:05:52 <ecto> (I use these financial tools to build reports on my spending habits)
07:07:34 <ecto> I have several recurring, otherwise identical transactions every month
07:07:50 <ecto> When gnucash imports them, it fails to add a bunch of them
07:09:04 <ecto> Examples of what it misses are my rent (identical each month), and utilities payments (not identical, but significantly large >$100), plus some recurring insurance and paypal transactions (both identical)
07:10:16 <ecto> One category that I have every month, is an almost daily transfer of small amounts into a savings account. The dollar amount for these at most once daily transactions is equal to the number of check card transactions I make on a given day
07:13:08 <ecto> Gnucash picks most of these savings transfers up OK, but it misses enough of them to where I have to go through my statement transaction by transaction, and it's a royal pain
07:15:39 <ecto> Ideally, I'd slurp in my QFX (containing all transactions for accounts through my bank for a given month (usually)), reconcile by plugging in the date range, and the ending balance, and have the reconcile window totally match. Quicken does this almost all the time, and in fact it reconciles automatically most of the time.
07:18:00 <ecto> I did notice that the import thresholds could be adjusted. I lowered them all as low as they can go, but since I didn't do this until after slogging through my statements, I haven't been able to test it.
07:19:11 <ecto> Oh, yeah, I'm using Gnucash 2.2.9 on Ubuntu 9.10
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07:22:07 <ecto> basically I want Gnucash to add all of the transactions in a QFX.
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07:47:50 <waterdragon> Anybody know how to take half a monetary value in guile?
07:48:08 <waterdragon> I want to calculate half the value of a split.
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08:02:07 <burivoy> hi there
08:02:49 <burivoy> in anybody in>
08:02:49 <burivoy> ?
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08:13:53 <itsols> @ecto, thank you for sharing your thoughts... I'm totally new to this whole package. I just don't know where to get started with gnucash. if there's any tutorial pls let me know. Cheers
08:13:53 <gncbot> itsols: Error: "ecto," is not a valid command.
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10:20:51 <waterdragon> Figured out how to do the half split thing:
10:21:30 <waterdragon> For the record you have to go numeric-to-double and then double-to-gnc-numeric
10:21:41 <waterdragon> like so: (double-to-gnc-numeric (* 0.5 (gnc-numeric-to-double (xaccSpliteGetAmount split))) (gnc-commodity-get-fraction currency) GNC-RND-ROUND))
10:23:01 <waterdragon> I would like to know how to tell if a split is cleared still.
10:23:22 <waterdragon> And I have a lot of work to do to clean up my custom report.
10:23:38 <waterdragon> But it at least calculates the number I am looking for.
10:23:52 <waterdragon> Not sure anybody else would be interested in it but I will try to clean it up and publish it.
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10:25:24 <warlord> waterdragon: you could lose precision doing that. You're better off using gnc-numeric-mul or gnc-numeric-div.
10:28:21 <warlord> ecto: Make sure the bank is using different FITIDs for each of the recurrning transactions
10:28:52 <andi5> waterdragon: i suppose xaccSplitGetReconcile can tell you whether a split is cleared
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10:33:07 <waterdragon> warlord: Thanks. That is a better way to do it clearly.
10:33:16 <waterdragon> Didn't know those functions existed.
10:34:00 <waterdragon> I have been looking for documentation of what functions are available but haven't found it so I have largely been figuring stuff out by cribbing other reports.
10:34:02 <andi5> there are tons of functions, you will find them in the header files (*.h) in the corresponding modules (here, libqof or engine)
10:34:06 <warlord> warlord: check out http://code.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/ for the available C API. MOST of those are also in Scheme.
10:35:19 <waterdragon> andi5: warlord: Thanks. I will take a look at those sources.
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13:15:56 <paolob_> Hi guys!
13:16:03 <paolob_> is there a way to tell gnucash that a txn belongs to a different accounting period than that of its date? thank you
13:18:28 <paolob_> for I have a txn with date Jan 31 2010, but I must consider it as it were of 2009 accounting period
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