General Ledger

[Adrien Monteleone]

Stan,

No I knew you were referring to the Ledger and I think David did also though he linked to the help on the Journal.

Unfortunately, it seems the Help file needs a tweak. (or the software) The link he gives describes in fact, the General Ledger. The terminology on the title and within the help article are inconsistent with the naming in the software. (though Journal is probably the more historically correct term, the two might be interchangeable)

In the software, the General Journal is a report you can run that shows ALL transactions. (under the Assets & Liabilities sub-menu) You can’t enter anything into it. There is no date selector in the options, and the Filter By… in View is not available.

Since I don’t close books I see everything when I look at either. Perhaps someone who uses that procedure might see only the current accounting period - I’m not sure.

To add to the confusion, there is also a General Ledger report located in that same menu. However, it seems to be the same as the Transaction Report and is much more versatile than the General Journal report.

For the record, I don’t see any separate ‘tool’ or ‘register’ called General Journal at least not in my copy of 2.6.19.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 23, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Adrien.
> 
> Please note that I asked about the general ledger, not the general journal, but I see that the filter works the same way (now that I know to try it). 
> 
> As the documentation mentions only the general journal, maybe "and general ledger" should be added, for the benefit of folks who are searching for it?
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown
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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, at 7:52 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> And unfortunately, this filter change is not sticky. You’ll have to 
>> reset it each time you load the GL. This is already a filed bug.
>> 
>>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 5:47 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>> "The General Journal defaults to showing only the previous month of transactions. This is changeable by using the "Filter By..." on the View menu."
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 4:27 PM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> There doesn't seem to be any documentation of Tools » General Ledger,
>>>> neither in the Help Manual nor in the Concepts Tutorial. (I couldn't
>>>> find an answer in the FAQ or Using GnuCash either.)
>>>> 
>>>> I have transactions entered from 2017-12-31 though 2018-01-31. But for
>>>> some reason, the General Ledger shows only 2018-01-23 through
>>>> 2018-01-31. ...
>>>> 
>>>> Please note: I'm talking about the General Ledger _tool_, not the
>>>> report. I want the ability to correct transactions that I get in the tool.
>