How to check upcoming tranactions by account

Russell Gadd rustleg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 16:00:13 EST 2008


Hi Donald

Very good of you to give me all the details below. Actually I'm well
advanced in getting Linux and Windows working side by side. I have XP,
Ubuntu and Debian multibooted with common FAT32 partitions for data. I use
BootitNG as a boot and partition manager which has the ability to image a
partition - this has saved me countless problems when system experiments
have gone wrong. Although this is a proprietary system really aimed at the
Windows world I'll keep it going at least for some while.

Still trying to decide on Debian v Ubuntu, probably choose the latter as
some of the Debian (stable) packages are a bit outdated - especially Gnucash
as this is pre the latest redesign of Scheduled Transactions.

It's great to be able to run Gnucash in Windows for now (even if a little
buggy?), as I am parallel running it with MS Money - have been doing so for
some weeks now and all is fully reconciled. However have only just completed
entering the scheduled transactions and have taken the decision to stop
running MS Money now, but will continue working in Windows until I am
completely satisfied with other aspects of Linux including backups. In the
absence of other factors I prefer MS Money as a tool, but Gnucash is
perfectly adequate for all my needs.

Vista on the horizon has turned me off Windows. That and the increasing
practice of the OS and the application software taking over control from the
user whether he/she likes it or not. I'm making the move now in a controlled
fashion, so that I can ditch Windows when I choose. MS Money was the only
piece of software which really tied me to Windows - I have been using
Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice for some time. With Money gone, I can
gradually move over. The reason I say gradually is that I would describe
myself as a power user of Windows, so there is a lot of nitty gritty to
replace to be comfortable in another environment. And also there is life
other than computing...

Russell




On 01/01/2008, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2008 6:01 AM, Russell Gadd <rustleg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am converting from Ms Money to Gnucash and have set up all my historic
> > records and entered scheduled transactions for my accounts. I have
> several
> > bank accounts to track and need a way to look ahead at what money is due
> to
> > come out of each account in the near future to ensure I am not
> overdrawn.
> >
> > Unfortunately the list at the top of the scheduled transactions editor
> > doesn't show the amount or the account(s) involved in the transaction.
> Is
> > there another way of viewing upcoming transactions by account? Maybe a
> > report ? (but I haven't found it).
> >
> > Ideally the report would be in account order, within each account there
> > would be a line showing an upcoming transaction and the resulting
> balance of
> > the account after the transaction is made. The report would presumably
> need
> > to have parameters determining the accounts to show and the date range.
> >
> > I had a brief look at custom reports but didn't manage to get the
> facility
> > to work. This was in the sample report: "This is a sample GnuCash
> report.
> > See the guile (scheme) source code in the scm/report directory for
> details
> > on writing your own reports, or extending existing reports." - I'm using
> > Windows XP (sigh, reason for going to Gnucash is to ditch Windows in due
> > course) and can't find such a directory.
>
> Did you download the gnucash sources?
>
> You didn't ask for advice on ditching Windows, but I'll make a few
> comments anyway, having helped others break the Windows habit (you've
> made the first step to recovery: acknowledging that you've got a
> problem :-) I'd suggest not going cold turkey, but instead squash your
> Windows partition (after backing up the whole machine with something
> like Acronis) with a tool like Partition Magic, to make space for
> Linux. I run the Gentoo distribution myself, but if you aren't an
> experienced Linux admin and/or don't care about the fine-grained level
> of control Gentoo gives you, Ubuntu would be a much better choice
> (very easy to install and excellent package management). There are
> other good distributions as well and others will have different
> opinions as to the best choice  -- this is a religious issue. Once the
> installation is complete, you'll be able to boot either Windows or
> Linux. It is not difficult to arrange for access from the Linux
> environment to your Windows files, so you can copy to the Linux
> filesystem as needed. If simultaneous access to Linux and Windows
> would be advantageous, you can install VMware Server (free) and create
> a Windows virtual machine in your Linux environment. You can arrange
> for that virtual machine to see your Linux filesystem (using Samba). I
> would suggest that any files you write in the Windows virtual machine
> (other than perhaps applications you install) reside in the Linux
> filesystem. If you are new at this (I don't know what you know), none
> of this is detailed enough for you to actually do it -- I'm just
> trying to give you a high-level sketch of what is possible.
>
> /Don
>
> >
> >
> > Russell
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