On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:43 -0700, David T. wrote: > As I continue my journey as a loyal but essentially clueless user of Gnucash > for my personal accounts, I am continually bumping my head against the > reports subsystem (and I eagerly await 2.4 where many fixes will greet me). > > It occurs to me that many of my own gripes, as well as those I see in the > lists from other users, might be ameliorated if Gnucash's reports had the > ability to use rolling and relative time frames. For example, I would love to > be able to have a report of monthly expenses over the last year that I could > run at any point and see the last 12 months' data. Similarly, some way of > defining quarters would be useful. I see that there commonly are date > definitions for Current and Previous Year; I am wondering whether other such > abstract date ranges could be implemented.
I agree. 2.4 will have some new capabilities but will not yet have a new report generation infrastructure. My complaint with the current budget report is that it is much too wide. In response, I modified it so that I can specify how periods are to be displayed/combined. For example, passing in the scheme list: (8 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)) will generate a budget report with 3 columns (actually, 9, with budget, actual and diff for each of 3 period combinations). 1st: period 8 (August), 2nd: sum of period 1-8 (year-to-date), 3rd: sum of all columns (full year). This allows me to see how I'm doing vs budget for 1) this month, 2) year-to-date, 3) vs full-year budget. Since webkit supports javascript and css, it is possible to create: 1) scrolling tables with headings that don't move 2) collapsible parents so that you can individually expand/contract levels of account hierarchy 3) lots of other stuff Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
