Where is gnucash register?

[Charles Day]

On Jan 25, 2008 2:10 PM, henrymds <henryf61 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't find the register. I imported a single QIF file from Quicken in
> Windows XP to gnucash 2.2.1 in Ubuntu 7.10. Gnucash recognizes all my
> categories/accounts. A report summary has the correct final balance. A
> transaction report appears to have all the transactions listed but I can't
> find the register anywhere.
> File > Open > Open is supposed to open an account tree somehow but all it
> does is list the backups of my file.

I know... the GnuCash GUI is brutally confusing for first-time users coming
from Quicken, particularly if you don't create GnuCash accounts *before*
importing the QIF file.  If you create the GnuCash accounts first, it's a
lot easier. Plus, there are a number of important bugs in the GnuCash
2.2.1QIF importer, so I'd really suggest that you start over and
import your QIF
using GnuCash 2.2.3.  If you can wait for 2.2.4, so much the better, because
I've patched a number of QIF importer bugs even since the release of 2.2.3.
Hopefully these will get released in 2.2.4.

But starting from where you are already... Go to File -> New -> New Accounts
Page. You'll see a list of accounts. Since you're a Quicken user, you
probably don't want to see income and expense accounts in the list, at least
initially, so go to View -> Filter By... and uncheck Income and Expense. Now
click on any of those accounts and you'll bring up that account's register.
If the register comes up blank (like shown in bug
502649<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502649>)
then click anywhere in the register and the transactions will magically
appear. Hopefully someone can fix this soon, but for now its just an
annoyance.

To the general GnuCash community: Why is the option to display a new
accounts page under the File menu anyway? It has nothing to do with files or
printing. The View menu seems more appropriate.

-Charles

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> TIA,
> henrymds
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