GnuCash 2.6.7 question

Fri Mar 2 19:22:20 EST 2018

Another item to check is the Edit >Preferences >Date/Time >Date Completion
setting.  You may prefer to change it.

David C

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have a look in View > Filter By (from that account) and see if you
> have selected a date range to show.
>
> Colin
>
> On 2 March 2018 at 21:16, David Dutra <ddutra at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> > Colin,
> >
> > I've attached a screen shot. Everything is fine through the transaction
> dated 2/25/2017 that I entered a year ago. Today I wanted to pick up with
> the first transaction of the new fiscal year which was a cash payment of
> $1,550 dated 3/3/2017 that was split between $1,500 for salary and $50 for
> expenses. I believe the way it's shown on the screen is the way it should
> look. The problem is, if I hit Enter (either by hitting the key or clicking
> on the menu), the transaction is no longer there - or anywhere else on the
> whole ledger - but if I start to input it again, it all comes back,
> properly split.
> >
> > D
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:57 PM
> > To: David Dutra
> > Cc: gnucash-user
> > Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question
> >
> > Can you enter it again and do a screenshot before hitting enter?  Post
> it here.
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > On 2 March 2018 at 20:52, David Dutra <ddutra at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> >> Thanks, but I have done that and scrolled up the whole list of
> transactions - it's not there.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gnucash-user
> >> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+ddutra=nycap.rr.com at gnucash.org] On
> >> Behalf Of Colin Law
> >> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:35 PM
> >> Cc: gnucash-user
> >> Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question
> >>
> >> Also you can use the search feature to search for the lost transaction.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >> On 2 March 2018 at 19:38, Evan Van Dyke <evandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> This will sound like a stupid response, but it’s happened to me a
> >>> bunch…
> >>>
> >>> Are you 100% sure you have the date right on the transaction when you
> enter it?   I’ve had this happen too many times when I enter just the
> month/day on a transaction, and GnuCash puts in last year’s year for some
> reason… causing the new transaction to jump up off the top of the screen
> when I hit “Enter” to create the transaction.  Most common around the end
> of the year (for me), and you say you’re coming back to the DB after time
> off, so it might just be “helping” you in an incorrect fashion.
> >>>
> >>> The fact that it auto-fills when you try to re-enter it suggests that
> the Tx is in your ledger somewhere.   If you’ve been clearing/reconciling
> your transactions, you can probably find it fast by scrolling up and
> looking for a Tx in the cleared section of your ledger which says “n” in
> that column.
> >>>
> >>> —Evan
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 2, 2018, at 1:26 PM, David Dutra <ddutra at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm very much a newbie and I'd appreciate some help. I used GnuCash
> >>>> last year for our small nonprofit to keep track of income and
> >>>> expenses based on transactions through our check book. I figured out
> >>>> how to use it for simple and split transactions last year and it
> >>>> worked fine. I haven't used it since and when I tried to carry on
> >>>> where I left off a year ago, I encountered a problem.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I set up a payment and split it into its two expense components - no
> >>>> problem. I hit Enter, but instead of entering that transaction and
> >>>> moving to the next line for the next entry, my transaction
> >>>> disappeared from view and all that was left was the date. However,
> >>>> when I began to enter it again beginning in the Memo column, the
> >>>> whole transaction reappeared with the correct amounts and splits.
> >>>> Hit Enter, and the same thing happened - line disappeared except for
> >>>> the date. Same thing happened when I clicked on the Enter button on
> the menu rather than hitting Enter on the keyboard.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Not sure why I was able to figure it out a year ago, but having
> >>>> issues now, but I'm assuming I'm making some simple mistake. Can
> anyone help me out??
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> David
> >>>>
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