Unable to create new Namespace in Price Editor

[Jonathan Wells]

Thanks Wm

I noticed the XXX currency, and that would work OK - just that XXX is 
not very descriptive.

I agree that miles are not an actual asset, liability or expense.  As 
such you are correct that GNU is not necessarily well suited to 
recording the actual miles, but only the *value* of those miles, which 
is the 0.55c per mile.

This is a just thinking about it project  - just trying to avoid keeping 
the mileage on a separate sheet somewhere.  An auditor might require a 
record of actual miles claimed.

Jon


------ Original Message ------
From: "Wm" <tcnw81 at tarrcity.demon.co.uk>
To: "Jonathan Wells" <jon.wells at yakka.ca>
Sent: 10/06/2016 5:36:58 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to create new Namespace in Price Editor

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>On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:33:51 +0000, in 
>gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user,
>Jonathan Wells <jon.wells at yakka.ca> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for that info.
>>
>>  That works for creating the Namespace, a Security, and subsequently 
>>for
>>  creating a Price.
>>
>>  But my idea will not work as the only account type that can be
>>  denominated using the new MILEAGE commodity is "Stock" or "Mutual 
>>Fund".
>>    Ideally I want to enter MILEAGE directly from the vehicle log into 
>>an
>>  expense account transaction as if it was a currency worth 55c per 
>>unit.
>>  I will do the calculation manually and enter it as a normal expense.
>
>I'm not entirely sure I understand how you were expecting things to 
>work
>but the currency
>XXX No Currency
>is normally involved and intended for just this purpose by ISO_4217
>
>if you set the expense account up as XXX an xfer from an asset a/c to 
>the
>expense a/c will ask you for an exchange rate.
>
>as an alternative do you know you can do sums inside gnc money amount
>fields ?
>
>e.g. from an Asset a/c like Bank
>
>Dt: 2016-06-10
>Desc: mileage to Jun 10
>Transfer: Exp:MileageCosts
>Cr: 123*0.55
>
>where 123 is the mileage you want to be expensed at .55 each, you'll 
>end up
>with 67.65 in money being knocked off the asset and recorded in the 
>expense
>account.
>
>If your main point was to record miles per month rather than the 
>monetary
>result of miles then gnc is not well suited to the task.  The main 
>reason
>for this is that you don't actually have any miles, i.e. there isn't an
>asset to increase or decrease if you think about it :)  gnc is best at
>recording the monetary effect of real world stuff rather than real 
>world
>stuff itself, which is, for a modest program, as many of us think it 
>should
>be.
>
>If this is a "just thinking about it" issue let the list know, someone 
>else
>may have another approach.
>
>--
>Wm
>