Entering Budget Values

[Matt Graham]

Ah, okay. Weird.

I’ve also realised that when you start a new budget you should see all ‘zeros’ in each ‘cell’ too. So I was on the wrong lines talking about that (thought the cells might be there with no values entered, but by default you would see 0.00 in each cell until you enter something. Light grey for ones that it has calculated from sub-accounts, black for ones that are lowest level or you have entered.

Can you see the four “Totals” rows at the bottom – Income, Expenses, Transfers, and Total? Do they have Zeros next to each period?

The only other thing I can think of is if you have accidently created a budget report, rather than a budget. You created it through “Actions” => “Budget” => “New Budget”, right? You could try creating another budget for the same time period and seeing if it displays the same behaviour.

Thanks and regards,

Matt

From: BCnon-admin<mailto:bmclark93 at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, 5 February 2018 4:59 AM
To: Matt Graham<mailto:matt_graham2001 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Entering Budget Values


Matt,

Hierarchy is good. "no cells" means that I would expect to see cells like on an excel spreadsheet but there aren't any - the space under the time period is just a blank page.

BC

On 2/3/2018 10:05 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
Hi Bruce!

Have you established your account hierarchy? The budget view should mirror your normal account hierarchy and allow you to enter values against each time period. So when you say ‘no cells’, do you mean you can see the accounts on the left and the periods along the top?

Additionally, do you have any hidden accounts? The default is no, so this shouldn’t be the problem, but accounts can be hidden so you don’t see them which could theoretically be why you aren’t seeing the cells.

Finally, are you Windows? There is a bug in windows whereby the display can be incredibly slow to respond. I have to click on a cell and wait almost a minute (no joke) before I can enter the value....

Thanks and regards,

Matt

From: Bruce Clark<mailto:bmclark93 at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, 4 February 2018 2:24 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Entering Budget Values

Today is my first day with GnuCash and everything was going well until I tried to enter budgets for my accounts. I have selected 2018 as my time frame (12 periods). ‘Help’ says all I have to do is select a cell (month) and enter the value but I don’t have any cells. Where have I gone wrong?

Bruce Clark
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