The account Expenses:Product: Turkeys:Grain does not exist.

[Maf. King]

On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:39:47 G. E. Thomson wrote:
> I am in Edit Bill.
>
> Under Expense, I clicked icon to see list of my accounts.  I selected
> the account I want.
> It showed up in the field. I clicked the next field, Quantity and an
> error box appeared:
>
> The account Expenses:Product: Turkeys:Grain does not exist. Would you
> like to create it?
> Options: Yes / No.
>
>
> I tried this with several different accounts (all of which exist and
> appear on the list of choices). Got the same message...
>
> I have not yet put any $ data into any accounts.  Might this be the
> reason GC doesn't recognize the account?
>

Hi, welcome to the list.

Hmm, odd.  Is the account type correctly set as an expense account?
(From the "accounts" tab, select an account, then click "Edit" toolbutton, 
"Account Type" is in the bottom left corner of the dialogue box)

What happens if you let GC create the "unknown" account?

HTH,
Maf.