New specification for Canadian cheques

[Paul Bak]

Canadian cheques require date to have following format (for example for today):
DATE   20080908
              yyyymmdd

Word "DATE", and string "yyyymmdd" has to be added by Gnucash and positioned as above.
I'm on ver 2.2.5 and Fedora 9.

Paul




----- Original Message ----
From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
To: Paul Bak <gnu4cash at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 10:19:28 AM
Subject: Re: New specification for Canadian cheques



On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Paul Bak wrote:

No David, there is no capability there.
I can't find the way to print field descriptors under and the "Date" in front of date.
Am I missing something?
Payl
Do you mean that there is no "Print Date Format" choice in the Printing tab of Preferences? What version of gnucash are you using? What system? The Print Date Format will print YYYYMMDD (or other format spec according to your date format setting) under the printed date on the check.

Appendix D of the Tutorial and Concepts guide will tell you how to add fields/text to a check specification.








----- Original Message ----
From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
To: Paul Bak <gnu4cash at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2008 8:58:39 PM
Subject: Re: New specification for Canadian cheques


On Sep 6, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Paul Bak wrote:

> Effective September 2nd 2008, all Canadian cheques must conform to  
> new, standardised specifications as outlined at
> http://www.cdnpay.ca/news/new_cheque_specs.asp .
>
> Any ideas when new format will be available?
> In February 2007 it was some discussion about it between Giles and  
> David Hampton but nothing after.
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-February/019642.html
>
> I really don't want to buy QuickBooks 2008.
> Paul


I'm guessing there wasn't any more discussion, because that capability  
has been in gnucash since then.

Edit > Preferences > (printing tab) > "Print date format"

Dave
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