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

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"G. E. Thomson" <gt539sunny at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

By any chance do you have an account name with a colon in it?  E.g,
do you have something like "Expenses:Product" in an account name?
Or "Product: Turkeys"?

That's your problem.  You're not allowed to use the account separator
character in an account name.

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-derek

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