2010-07-03 GnuCash IRC logs
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02:05:46 <Zombie> Does anyone know how to make GnuCash interoperate with US Federal Credit Unions?
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02:29:12 <russell> hey are any developers on today?
02:29:46 <russell> is anyone taking questions?
02:31:29 <russell> i have a suggestion on how to handle taxes
02:33:03 <Zombie> Not me.
02:33:14 <Zombie> I just want to know how to make GnuCash interoperate with US Federal Credit Unions?
02:33:26 <Zombie> using OFX.
02:34:16 <russell> ofx? isn't that just a standard inport?
02:35:16 <Zombie> I've never really seriously attempted it.
02:36:05 <Zombie> My bank has a "Download to money" button on its Web Front end, it downloads a text .ofx file that has a bunch of cryptic XML
02:38:14 <Zombie> The OFX Contains no actual content so far as I can see.
02:38:44 <russell> have you tried the file/import ofx, as far as i can tell they are just a transaction list
02:40:21 <Zombie> This fails.
02:41:14 <Zombie> I think the OFX File is supposed to autoconfigure MS Money and other Financial applications to establish an OFX Connection.
02:42:05 <Zombie> That would be my best guess.
02:43:38 <russell> from an australian bank, i download an ofx which contains a transaction record for a single account, it contains account numbers from the bank, so it can link transactions from one gnucash account to another, otherwise it is manual.
02:43:55 <russell> i don't think there is any secondary connection
02:52:45 <Zombie> See I click my download to money Icon, and the text file doesn't contain anything.
02:52:50 <Zombie> Well
02:53:02 <Zombie> it downloads a text .ofx file that has a bunch of cryptic XML
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04:07:19 <gary> Morning all, I have a question about something that's confusing me. It's most likely that i'm simply misunderstanding either the principles behind accounting or i'm doing things wrongly in GNUCash.... SO here goes:
04:07:59 <gary> I'm using GNUCash for a UK business accounting, when I raise an invoice, I raise it against the income -> sales -> uk account
04:08:35 <gary> At this point in time, the invoice hasn't been paid obviously. But if I look at the profit and loss report, this invoice counts towards my profit.
04:08:58 <gary> Is that how it's supposed to work? Should this count as profit even though i've not been paid yet?
04:11:22 <gary> At the moment, my whole process is this:
04:11:32 <gary> Raise invoice in income -> sales -> uk
04:11:44 <gary> Post invoice to accounts receivable
04:14:05 <gary> When I process the payment, I post to Accounts Receiveable and the transfer account I select Bank Accounts -> Current account
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04:15:03 <gary> So... Is what i'm doing correct? And if not, where am I going wrong? :)
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05:06:23 <Zombie> I think so/
05:06:33 <Zombie> Are you doing Double Entry accounting?
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05:11:41 <gary> Zombie: there's no other way with GNUCash is there?
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05:33:45 <Zombie> Well, no. Thats a rule of Double entry accounting.
05:34:01 <Zombie> If you Credit something, it has to Debit some place else.
06:25:43 <kimmo> gary, an invoice you send out counts as profit on the day it's posted
06:26:10 <kimmo> gary, and the transactions you did were allright
06:27:25 <Zombie> My bank has a "Download to money" button on its Web Front end, it downloads a text .ofx file that has a bunch of cryptic XML
06:27:30 <Zombie> I think the OFX File is supposed to autoconfigure MS Money and other Financial applications to establish an OFX Connection.
06:27:58 <Zombie> Could someone tell me if I can use this to configure Gnucash?
06:30:58 <kimmo> well, gnucash can import ofx files among other types
06:31:02 <kimmo> haven
06:31:07 <kimmo> haven't ever tried though
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06:44:59 <Zombie> There aren't any actual values in this XML file.
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08:09:13 <claybustr> how stable is the 2.3 branch? is it still highly experimental, or 'just about there, but we're not making any promises'?
08:20:14 <Zombie> I have no idea
08:20:37 <Zombie> My bank has a "Download to money" button on its Web Front end, it downloads a text .ofx file that has a bunch of cryptic XML. Can I use this to auto configure Gnucash?
08:25:19 <kimmo> claybustr, it's been out for quite a while now, I'd assume it's relatively stable
08:33:13 <Zombie> Anyone?
08:35:51 <kimmo> how about trying?
08:41:06 <Zombie> It won't import as a normal OFX,
08:41:35 <Zombie> It contains no values.
08:42:30 <Zombie> Quicken and MS Money, and iBank for Mac can do this somehow.
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09:50:33 <CG> Quick question... GNUCash doesn't have it's own file extension, correct?
09:54:55 <Zombie> Its like axc.
09:56:11 <CG> Hrm... Does that apply to the Windows verison as well? Because all I have is a file without extension and a .log file
10:07:28 <Zombie> I never checked
10:07:56 <CG> It's not really important... I was just curious.
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11:33:08 <gary> kimmo: Thanks for the response earlier
11:33:29 <gary> kimmo: I had assumed that had to be the case, just wanted to make sure :)
11:56:52 <kimmo> yeah, it kind of makes sense that you record an income when your customer enters a covenant to pay you X amount of cash
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12:02:25 <raleightile> I changed my font preferences in the Default report preferences, it did change to a different font, but not the one i selected, any ideas?
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12:27:18 <raleightile> I guess it is called the style sheet
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14:57:52 <dnm> Hi all. I'm trying to import 11 years worth of Quicken data as one big QIF into Gnucash (2.2.9, linux, built from source). Some of the import works, but some doesn't. Specifically, several savings accounts are missing all transactions except for the ones to/from my main checking account. This includes transfers to/from other savings accounts and interest income (quicken category). Any thoughts?
14:59:33 <dnm> (no errors or warnings at all during the QIF import process.)
15:09:22 <davr> maybe those transaction didnt get exported into the QIF?
15:09:43 <davr> would be good to narrow down if the problem is in the export or in the import
15:11:40 <dnm> Thanks davr. I just figured out that that's exactly what the problem was. I buggered the export and only selected one account instead of all. Just re-exported (properly) and it worked. Thanks!
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16:12:04 <claybustr> is there any documentation on the new dbi backend?
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17:26:29 <claybustr> oh yipee - now have a postgres checkbook.
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