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

[G. E. Thomson]

Derek,

Yes, that was it.  The colon.  It worked fine as soon as I changed it
to a hyphen.

Thanks!

GT

On 2/8/10, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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