2014-09-14 GnuCash IRC logs

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05:01:00 <eonsz> Hi, in my stock account, the "Total (USD)" column is zero even though I configured the currencies and set up a price... anyone stumbled over this too?
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11:03:16 <webmanoffesto> I'm doing the tutorial in the "GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide". It's well written and very helpful.
11:15:49 <gjanssens> Glad you like it!
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14:20:59 <Unhammer> If I have a bunch of already-entered transactions that now need to be split for extracting VAT, is it safe to simply add a <trn:split> element for each transaction in the XML of the .gnucash file (of course altering the value/quantity of the other corresponding <trn:split> there, and putting in a guid from gnucash-make-guids in the new element)
14:21:07 <Unhammer> ?
14:21:45 <Unhammer> I mean, I tried once on a copy and it seemed to open fine, but I don't know if the XML has to be changed in other places than the actual transaction in order for the accounts not to get corrupted in some way
14:34:00 <warlord> Unhammer: no, you should change it via the UI
14:34:22 <warlord> You should never modify the xml file by hand.
15:02:23 <Unhammer> but the ui doesn't support editing several items at once
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15:03:52 <Unhammer> and from what I can tell, there's no way to export to any other format than xml
15:04:03 <Unhammer> oh wait htere is
15:04:43 <Unhammer> though it feels really ugly if I have to export everything to csv, then delete everything, then import from csv
15:09:45 <warlord> Unhammer: true, you cannot edit multiple entries at once; you need to do it one-at-a-time.
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15:11:57 <Unhammer> but this "should not modify" – what can happen? (I mean, obviously gnucash modifies it in a safe way, so I should be able to write a program to also do it safely)
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15:14:37 <Unhammer> I looked into writing a plugin to automatically split with a predefined VAT %, but so far that seems harder to do since there are no similar plugins
15:27:49 <warlord> The only place where there is automated splitting is in the business features
15:28:13 <warlord> What can happen? Worst case you could break your data file in ways that gnucash could no longer read it, or would read it incorrectly.
15:29:05 <warlord> There are many ways you could shoot yourself in the foot.
15:29:55 <warlord> If you modify the XML you may violate the gnucash data object invariants, things that the code "assumes" will always be correct because only the code itself is supposed to be writing the XML.
15:30:00 <warlord> (or database)
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15:33:17 <gjanssens> Unhammer you could try to do it via python or scheme/guile
15:33:47 <gjanssens> Gnucash exposes its api in both of these languages
15:37:15 <Unhammer> aha
15:41:08 <Unhammer> so maybe I should make a script that does (use-modules …) (write (munge (read thexml))) instead of trying for a plugin
15:42:44 <warlord> Unhammer: you could attach that function to a menu item
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15:46:15 <eonsz> Hi, gnucash does not convert my stock commodities into the main currency in the main list. I have set up stocks and set a price. Any ideas?
15:47:53 <warlord> eonsz: are you sure you have a PriceDB entry?
15:48:30 <warlord> .. and enabled the "Total(<CUR>)" column in your CoA?
15:51:21 <eonsz> Yea, here is a screenshot: http://uberhax0r.de/upload/20140914/2014-09-14-215032_959x491_scrot.png
15:52:30 <eonsz> Ah I found the problem I guess
15:53:05 <eonsz> I removed the price entry with no "type" (see screenshot), then it works....
16:09:36 <eonsz> Thanks for your help :)
16:15:23 <warlord> Huh! I wonder how that one got in thre
16:15:52 <warlord> Do you mean the "unknown" type for 0.000000"?
16:21:18 <eonsz> yea, I didn't realize that the date is after the "type = last" price info
16:21:35 <eonsz> well that explains the 0 EUR :)
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