Unofficial GnuCash Forum

Mark Phillips mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Sat Jan 24 17:53:15 EST 2015 

<ranting in soap box>

I don't understand the connection between having questions about split
transactions and a forum.

If I had an issue with split transactions, I would go to my friend Google
and ask for help...and I would get 6,270 answers in 0.47 seconds. (
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=gnucash+split+transaction&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8).


The first page has nine entries in my browser:
* The first three references take you to the pages in the GNUcash docs and
tutorials about split transactions
* The fourth is a youtube video that shows you have to make a split
transaction.
* The fifth entry goes to nabble and a long discussion from the email list
in a nice, easy to follow, forum like format about split transactions
complete with pictures.
* The sixth through ninth entries are from various GNUcash
tutorials/blogs/email lists not directly related to the GNUcash web site,
but all very helpful and all are focused on how to make a split transaction.

If none of these resources helped, then I would be prepared to post an
intelligent question to the email list, referencing what I learned in these
resources and why they don't solve my particular problem, and then get
specific help for my particular issue.

However, you feel that all this information is not good enough to answer
your questions about split transactions, and the only way you could
possibly learn how to create a split transaction is to have a forum? Get
real.

People, the folks who support GNUcash do it for FREE on their own time. No
one is paid for working on this project. If you want a support forum, then
go purchase an accounting application that has one.

</ranting on soapbox>

Mark

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you read the Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts Guide at
> http://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide ? It has a section on
> splits
> and how to enter them ? Also section 6.4 of the Help Guide has a detailed
> step by step explanation of how to enter splits - same url as before.
>
> One thing you need to keep in mind when entering split transactions is not
> to hit the Enter key until you are done setting up everything, use the Tab
> key (I think from memory Shift/Tab works to go backwards) to move around
> the split transaction line entries.
>
> Cheers Dave H...
>
> On 25/01/2015 6:46 AM, "Max Scholefield" <maxinvan.ms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that gnucash is the only free, fully functioning
> accounting
> > system available anywhere in the world, I am sure millions of people
> would
> > want to use it. However as a non accountant I find that getting
> > understandable information out of this mailing list is like pulling teeth
> > (very difficult). I would like to be able to to understand even simple
> > concepts (to you) such as splitting transactions, however hard I try I
> > cannot even make that work. A forum would give me a proper thread to
> follow
> > where the answers go straight to my problem,  instead of trying to find a
> > needle in a haysack answer in a convoluted mail form. However you do very
> > good work and should be congratulated, gnucash is a wonderful program
> and I
> > will continue to use it albeit in it's simplest form. Max
> >
> > On 24 January 2015 at 23:19, Bob Brush <bobbrush3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Love it!   Liz, is there a place that teaches how?  I tried to figure
> out
> > > I think it was latex one time but couldn't, is it the same?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Jan 24, 2015, at 6:21 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:29:07 +0000
> > > > Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> [1] given that we don't have the population for a system like that
> to
> > > >> make sense and having thought about what Liz said upthread I'm
> > > >> wondering if this isn't just a case of the wiki / FAQ having been
> > > >> neglected ? (it isn't even in Liz's diagram).
> > > >>
> > > >> Or are wikis also not of interest to people that favour forums ?
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > > quick alteration to the map
> > > >
> > > > If anyone else wants a go, it's written in tex
> > > >
> > > > ============================
> > > > \usetikzlibrary{mindmap,backgrounds}
> > > > \begin{tikzpicture}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=purple, text=white]
> > > >    \node [concept] {Gnucash Users}[clockwise from=180]
> > > >      child {node [concept] (his) {Usenet}}
> > > >      child {node [concept] (ppr) {IRC}}
> > > >      child {node [concept] (exm) {Mailing List}}
> > > >      child {node [concept] (com) {Forum}}
> > > >    ;
> > > >  \end{scope}
> > > >
> > > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=green]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    \node [concept, text=black] (pos) at (-2,16)
> > > >      {Gnucash Resources}
> > > >      [clockwise from=0]
> > > >
> > > >      child [concept color=green!50,]
> > > >        {node [concept] (wik) {Wiki}}
> > > >          child [concept color=green!50] {node [concept] (faq)
> > > > {FAQ}} child [concept color=green!50] {node [concept] (mla) {Mailing
> > > > List Archives}} ;
> > > >  \end{scope}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > \begin{scope}[mindmap, concept color=blue]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    \node [concept, text=white] (pos) at (8,12)
> > > >      (pph) {People Providing Gnucash Help}
> > > >      [clockwise from=-60]
> > > >
> > > >      child [concept color=blue!50, level distance=250]
> > > >        {node [concept] (ppq) {Accounting help}}
> > > >          child [concept color=blue!50] {node [concept] (obs)
> > > > {Program Help}} child [concept color=blue!50] {node [concept] (mec)
> > > > {Development}} ;
> > > >  \end{scope}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  \begin{pgfonlayer}{background}
> > > >    \draw [circle connection bar]
> > > >      (ppr) edge (mec)
> > > >      (mec) edge (exm)
> > > >      (ppr) edge (obs)
> > > >      (exm) edge (obs)
> > > >      (com) edge (obs)
> > > >      (exm) edge (ppq)
> > > >      (com) edge (ppq)
> > > >      (exm) edge (mla)
> > > >    (pph) edge (wik)
> > > >    (pph) edge (faq)
> > > > ;
> > > >
> > > >  \end{pgfonlayer}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > \end{tikzpicture}
> > > > ==============================
> > > > <gnucash_tree_1.pdf>
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