GnuCash - Newbie - Experiences / Questions

[Fien.Remerie]

Christian Stimming wrote:
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> On Saturday 28 July 2001 21:38, Fien.Remerie wrote:
> > 5) One of the most used reports in Money is for me 'where does the money
> > stay ?'
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> Could you give a more detailed description of what this report says and
> what it looks like? Perhaps this is also achievable by the Profit&Loss
> statement...

You're very cautious in your statements ;-) : in fact it _is_ a profit
and loss statement, but with the entries sorted by amount. I guess this
should be a piece of cake to implement ... 

In money one can also click on the graphic representation of above and
see all contributions to that expense.

Thanks for the hint, one just needs to learn things seeing from gnc
perspective again ...

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> > I understand I can do this somehow with a transaction report and setting
> > the right options (accounts, amount as primary key ..) but this is
> > somehow 'spartan'. On top of that it looks like every session I have to
> > set again all options for this report. Can one save reports (I mean the
> > settings to generate it) ? Can one define additional reports and
> > integrate them in the GUI menu's ?
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> The current report state is saved from session to session. However, if the
> reports are closed, they will open again only with the default settings.
> You would need to keep them open at program exit time.

Room for improvement : definition of custom reports (=existing reports
with certain options set and saved somehow)

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> > 6) To a lesser extent I miss also the 'who does receive my money' report
> > from Money. This looks harder to solve as 'payee' is completely missing
> > in the GnuCash concept, isn't it ?
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> > 7) Money has some nice graph representations. On my GnuCash, all request
> > for graphical output ends in segmentation faults ... Maybe related to
> > 1). Anybody hints where and how to start hunting for the problem ?
> 
> Well, then there's something wrong with Guppi... but IIRC you already
> wrote to their mailing list. Let us know what you heard there.

What does IIRC mean ?
Anyway, Guppi points to a problem in Guile setup for the Ximian rpm
installations. If the guys over there give me some confidence, I'll now
rebuild Guile from source. (after gnucash is completely running, I'll be
an build-expert ;-( )


Thanks for your fast replies ! 

Fien
 
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> Christian
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