I'll be aiming to replace and upgrade the following reports:
* balance-sheet
* income-statement
* account-summary
* budget-flow
* cashflow
Basically all of above are using html-acct-table to create a 2D grid
(vertical = accountlist, horizontal = indented amounts). I think I can
upgrade to use a cleaner html-multicolumn-acct-table instead.
I will be merging their display/parent-balance-mode and
display/parent-total-mode options into one. As far as I can see, there
are only two valid combinations that will produce useful subtotal strategy:
1. parent-account-balances = "Account balance",
parent-account-subtotals = "Show subtotals" - this matches my
'multilevel subtotal strategy (i.e. each parent+children account
family is followed by the parent+children subtotal)
2. parent-account-balances = "Subtotal", parent-account-subtotals = "Do
Not Show" - this matches my 'recursive-bal subtotal strategy (i.e.
parent amount incorporates whole children amounts, and if parent has
own amount, display it as a child account on the next line)
The other options are invalid - i.e. Parent-account-balances = 'Do not
show' will obligatorily lead to amounts missing whereby parent-account
has an amount. And the Parent-account-subtotal = "Text book-style
(experimental)" is internally known as 'canonically-tabbed', and the
code is peppered with comments that "The canonically-tabbed option is
currently broken."
Any other combination for subtotals will lead to duplication of amounts,
or missing amounts.
Conclusion:
I will merge these two options into the saner 2-option recursive-bal vs.
multilevel subtotal strategy. I'll try to maximise compatibility with
saved reports, as well as set up a transitioning report for users
wishing to use old reports (with another guid). But after 1 year I think
it will be wise to remove old code.
Any queries please ask!
C
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