Transaction entry problem

Sun Jun 14 14:26:13 EDT 2015

Hi Geert,

I was already on 2.6.6 and running check & repair didn't do a thing for me.  I cannot see all of the transactions in an account no matter how I set the preference for showing transactions.  I tried using both 0 and 500 for the number of transactions showing and it still shows me just the transactions that it wants to.  The only way to see all the transactions is to run a report on the account, but I can't edit the transactions from a report, Right???

Lordy, the frustration is growing.  I'm going to have to dump this program.

Thanks for trying,

Ron Shook

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Cc: Ron Shook <shepvideo at aol.com>; alex.aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 13, 2015 3:04 am
Subject: Re: Transaction entry problem

Ron,

Which version of gnucash are you using ?

There were a couple of
releases early in the 2.6 series which hid 
single-split transactions. If you
happen to use one of those you may 
want to upgrade to gnucash 2.6.6 and
optionally run check & repair.

Regards,

Geert

On Friday 12 June 2015
16:22:24 Ron Shook wrote:
> Alex & Tommy,
> 
> 
> Thanks for responding on
this.  I can't get on the computer that I'm
> experiencing the problem with at
will, which is why I haven't
> responded sooner.  I am, unfortunately, still
just as mystified.
> 
> 
> It's still a transaction entry problem and I'm
hoping that I will say
> something that will cue you in or perhaps you could
ask me a question
> that will help or send me in the right direction.
> 
>

> I've been working from the chart of accounts, double clicking on the
>
account that I want to work on, and deleting, changing or entering
> new
entries.  My problem is as explained before, the nutsiest part of
> it being
that opening the problem accounts (Utilites: Electricity &
> Utilities: Natural
Gas-Oil) show me limited transactions which I
> cannot add to, however they are
being added but don't show up.  I
> went to GC preferences: register defaults
and set the counter to 0,
> which seems to be what it takes to see everything,
yet I don't see
> everything.  The problem is not their dates because they are
later
> dates than those that do show.  When I do a transaction report on
>
either of these accounts, they show everything including the
> additions that
aren't showing up in the chart of accounts, so I have
> a number of duplicate
transactions, but can't find them outside of a
> report to delete the extras
and leave one instance that will show in
> the account when accessed from the
chart of acco! unts..
> 
> 
> Does this explain it better or can you ask me
to tell you something
> that will provide a better explanation.  I have done a
whole lot of
> reading in the Tutorial & Concepts guide, not complete, but
focusing
> on the topics that might give me an answer, but with no joy.  I
doubt
> if it makes a difference, but I'm on Win 7Pro.  Might there be some
>
sort of preference or property change that I am missing to get
> everything to
show up in the CofA?
> 
> 
> Thanks so much again,
> 
> 
> Ron Shook
>

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Aycinena
<alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>;
shepvideo
> <shepvideo at aol.com> Sent: Tue, Jun 9, 2015 6:55 pm
> Subject: Re:
Transaction entry problem
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded
message ----------
> From: Ron Shook <     shepvideo at aol.com>
> To:     
gnucash-user at gnucash.org,      shepvideo at aol.com
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015
16:44:41 -0400
> Subject: Transaction entry problem
> New User:
> 
> 
>  I
must be doing something or not doing something completely stupid,
> but I have
a problem with transaction entry, that I can't for the
> life of me solve, that
is driving me bonkers.
> 
> 
>  Here's the situation:  Some transaction
entries for Utilities:
> natural gas and Utilities: electric were posted to the
wrong
> accounts, 3 or 4 to the opposite account in each account.  This
>
happened on a transfer from Microsoft Money and was most certainly
> posted
wrong in that accounting package.  I went into both nat gas
> and electric
accounts and changed the wrong ones from transfer to nat
> gas and electric
appropriately.  This worked for the most part except
> for one transaction
entered after the transfer which wasn't a
> transfer, which I changed from nat
gas to electric, i.e.,, it was a
> mistake that was made in Gnucash and didn't
originate in MS Money. 
> After I tried to change the entry from nat gas to
electric, it
> stubbornly refused to take the change and stayed in nat gas. 
After
> trying numerous times to do this, I decided to delete the
transaction
> from nat gas, and add it to electric.  After deleting it from nat
gas
> and opening electric, I tried to add the deleted item the! re.  I
> fill
out the new transaction registry item, hit enter, and what I
> have just typed
disappears and is not added to the electric account. 
> Trying to do this
numerous times has resulted in the same nothing
> happening.  An anomaly that
happens when I fill out the new line is
> that the correct amount for the debit
is entered automatically each
> time, if that would help in determining what
I'm doing wrong?
> 
>  To make this even more confusing, when I do a
transaction report on
> electric, every one of the failed attempts to add the
new transaction
> entry shows up on the transaction report as a separate item
making
> for an insane amount for total electric, yet none of these failed
>
items is shown when I double click and open up the electric account.
> 
> 
> 
Does anyone have any suggestions for all of this.  I'm about to go
> elsewhere
for Accounting software.  Nothing has been as simple and
> easy peasy since my
first accounting software, Mac Money on an Apple
> II+.  I was really hoping
that I could set up Gnucash to function as
> simply as possible as a simple
cash accounting program for tax
> records, but this is driving me up the
wall.
> 
> 
>  Thanks for anything anyone can do to set me straight,
> 
>

>  Ron Shook
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Don't get frustrated. You're doing
something wrong but it is unclear
> what from your description. Someone
suggested going through the
> tutorial & concepts guide, which is a good idea.
The fact that you
> say that you have insane amounts for electric indicate that
all the
> transactions you were entering where actually being entered, you
just
> couldn't see them. Which register were you entering them in? If you
>
use the general ledger (or journal?) for data entry, that defaults to
> only
show recent transaction, although that default can be changed.
> What dates
were they for? (If they are for a date from long ago, when
> you hit the enter
key, they seem to disappear because they are sorted
> by date and go off the
top of the visible register). If you are in an
> expense register and change
the expense account they do in fact
> disappear from that register, but appear
in the new expense register.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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