[GNC] Nesting too deep for budget?

[Adrien Monteleone]

This might be an ‘unused’ issue.

I presume since you’re getting started, none of those 26 accounts have any existing transactions, correct?

Go to:

View > Filter By > Other

and check off:

Show Unused Accounts
(optionally) Show Zero Total Accounts
(optionally) Show Hidden Accounts

You should now be able to budget for those accounts.

Nesting is not an issue. I have some accounts about 6-7 deep and I can use them in the budget.

However, I’m curious as to why the ‘Home' account under expenses? There are other ways to categorize or tag expenses and while budgets don’t work with those methods, if the accounts themselves are unique you can include them selectively in various budgets without the need to nest them all under a ‘Home’ placeholder. The same goes for various reports.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 8, 2020 w2d8, at 8:12 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
> 
> I am setting up a budget for this year in my new role as treasurer for
> our church.  Ours is simply a spending budget and since we're partners
> with another parish there are actually two budgets, but that isn't my
> problem at the moment.
> 
> Under Expenses I have created the placeholder account Home and under
> Home I have created 26 accounts.  All accounts show in the Budget window
> but only Home has a cell where I can enter a budget amount.  None of the
> 26 accounts have a cell for a budget amount.  I had started the budget
> before creating the 26 accounts and thinking that was the issue created
> a new budget but it shows the same.
> 
> I am presently running 3.7 on Debian Testing (3.8 should get here soon
> as the 3.8 doc package came in a couple of days ago).  I can provide a
> screenshot if that helps
> 
> Puzzled...
> 
> - Nate