Where is gnucash register?

[Henry Fallon]

Charles (and Josh),

Thanks for your informative replies. This experience makes me appreciate the
genius of Quicken. It just looks like a checkbook. I'm not sure how to
describe gnucash but it looks entirely too professional for my simple
requirements in keeping my personal checkbook. For example, when I post a
batch of checks to the register, I want to use a single register since my
checks will be written to random accounts. I don't want to have to open up
an account for each individual check and then close each account before they
stretch way beyond the screen's boundaries.

Disclaimer: The tutorial and help files didn't come with my copy of gnucash.
I have since discovered them on the web and realize I have to do some
homework before using gnucash again.

Let me try to make a few constructive comments:
--If memory serves me, the import screen was one of the first ones displayed
when I opened gnucash. If I should have been setting up accounts prior to
import, then why not warn me of that fact and give me the option to do so?
Hint: maybe this would be a good fix for the next release.
--Thanks for warning be about import bugs. I got maybe a hundred duplicate
entries on my import and quickly decided to ignore them. The duplicates did
not exist in Quicken and the final balance in GnuCash was correct. It
wouldn't have been if the duplicates were real.
--I will definitely wait for version 2.2.4 and go back to Quicken meanwhile.

Before returning, I have a question about downloads from my bank but let me
first search the forum to see if it has been answered. If not, I will start
a new thread.

Thanks again. I am impressed by the speed and quality of the answers.

Henry Fallon

On Jan 25, 2008 7:39 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 2.2.1 QIF 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
>
> >
> > TIA,
> > henrymds
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