[GNC] Budgeting

[Adrien Monteleone]

Peter,

Both unused accounts, parent and child, allowed me to enter values.

Is it just that you are seeing “0.00” for Expenses:Auto but not seeing anything for Expenses:Auto:Licensing, or can you not double-click where the cell is supposed to be and enter any value at all?

Note, Parent accounts will default to showing “0.00”, but child accounts are just empty. You shouldn’t generally enter budget amounts for parent accounts. If you only enter the child account amounts, you’ll see that the parent takes on their sum as its value. (hence why they all start off “0.00” as the sum is already calculated and displayed, but at this point is zero) This also falls in line with the ‘best practice’ that parent accounts should be placeholders only and should not contain their own transactions.

If it helps to see cells better you can turn on grid lines. (unfortunately, for the whole app, not just the Budget module)

Preferences > General >

Enable horizontal grid lines on table displays
Enable vertical grid lines on table displays

These are supposed to update in real time as you check/uncheck them, but there seems to be a bug. After changing the preference, close the preferences window and then close and re-open the budget. You’ll see the desired grid lines.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 11, 2018, at 6:00 PM, Peter088 <Peter088 at PeterMacDonough.Com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Adrien,
> 
> That got me part of the way.  However, I am still not seeing any
> cells/values for the lowest nested level of each account.  For example,
> Expenses:Auto:Licensing shows and editable cell at the Auto level even
> though there are no transactions in that account, but not at the Licensing
> level.
> 
> Is there a way to set those values as well?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, 10 December 2018 12:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [GNC] Budgeting
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> View > Filter By... > Other > Show unused accounts
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Peter088 <Peter088 at PeterMacDonough.Com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm a very new user coming over from Quicken.  I'm trying to work out the
>> budget feature.  In trying to create a budget and following the
>> instructions, I seem to only have the opportunity to budget for expenses
>> (accounts) that have at least one transaction in them.  How can I set up a
>> budget for accounts that have not yet incurred any transactions?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
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