Thanks. I'll give it a try. I'll just update the source in my git folder for tag 3.903 and rebuild if I can't figure out how to modify the flatpak.
*Mark Sattolo* *mh.sa...@gmail.com <mh.sa...@gmail.com>* *(613) 447-5385* On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:36 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mark > > The reports for balance-sheet and income-statement were replaced with the > multicolumn ones. See the release notes. This was described in devel a few > weeks/months ago. > > Try the following patch which will reduce the discrepancy in the default > options between old and new. You may be able to modify the patch from > within the flatpak (but I'm not sure). > > modified gnucash/report/reports/standard/balsheet-pnl.scm > @@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ also show overall period profit & loss.")) > (gnc:options-add-date-interval! > options gnc:pagename-general optname-startdate optname-enddate "c") > > + (gnc:option-set-default-value > + (gnc:lookup-option options gnc:pagename-general optname-enddate) > 'today) > + > (add-option > (gnc:make-multichoice-callback-option > gnc:pagename-general optname-period > @@ -1107,6 +1110,22 @@ also show overall period profit & loss.")) > retained-earnings-fn)))) > #:negate-amounts? #t) > > + (add-to-table multicol-table-right (_ "Liability and Equity") > + (append liability-accounts > + equity-accounts > + (if common-currency > + (list (vector (_ "Unrealized Gains") > + unrealized-gain-fn)) > + '()) > + (if (null? income-expense) > + '() > + (list (vector (_ "Retained Earnings") > + retained-earnings-fn)))) > + #:negate-amounts? #t > + #:show-title? #f > + #:show-accounts? #f > + #:show-total? #t) > + > (if (and common-currency show-rates?) > (add-to-table multicol-table-right (_ "Exchange Rates") > asset-liability > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:18, mark sattolo <mh.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I started using Gnc 3.903 yesterday >> morning. This is a version I built from git using tag '3.903' on June 2. >> It >> built without any problems, so I assumed it was good, but now it occurs to >> me that all these problems may just be due to a problem with my build. But >> I thought i would report now anyway just in case there are general issues >> with this version. I was actually going to try a flatpak build of 3.903, >> but I couldn't tell from any of the build names in Gnucash flatpak repo >> <https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/> which one is for version >> 3.903. >> >> Anyway, everything seemed fine with 3.903 until I opened one of my saved >> reports. The appearance of the report was essentially unrecognizable. I >> only ever use my saved reports and their appearance hasn't changed for >> years, for any other Gnucash version (release or maint) until 3.903. So I >> went in to the report *options* to see if I could restore the layout to >> what i was used to: >> >> Commodities tab: >> there is a new Common Currency checkbox at the top, which was unchecked, >> and everything below was greyed out. But the two checkboxes 'Show original >> currency amount' and 'Show exchange rates' were both checked, even though >> in my original options, the previous two checkboxes on this tab: 'Show >> foreign currencies' and 'Show exchange rates' were both saved as >> *unchecked*. >> So, checking the Common Currency box to ungrey the other options and then >> unchecking the currency and exchange rate boxes, restored the layout of >> the >> report to basically what I was familiar with, as it no longer had long >> lists of commodities under essentially every sub-total. >> >> General tab: >> the report I was looking at, which I run often, is a balance sheet for all >> my accounts, for date 'Today'. The old options had a select list titled >> 'Balance sheet date' which was set to the relative date of Today. The new >> options have a Start Date and an End Date. The Start Date is greyed out, >> so >> I guess it is fairly easy to figure out that since it doesn't make sense >> to >> have two dates for a Balance, that the End Date is the active one. >> Unfortunately, the date shown in 'End Date' was not 'Today' but had been >> changed to 'End of accounting period'... So I changed it back to 'Today' >> to >> get the proper balance date as it had been before. >> >> Other problems: >> 1) There used to be a final total for the credit side of 'Total >> Liabilities >> and Equity', which would match the Total Assets line if the balance was >> done properly (sometimes it doesn't balance which means that I have >> created >> some new accounts in the meantime and have to update the saved config), >> but >> this line was missing and I tried every option I could find to restore it, >> but nothing worked. Which means to ensure your balance is actually >> working, >> you have to add on your own the Total Liability and Total Equity lines and >> compare this to Total Assets. >> So, just from looking, I could tell the actual totals were close, and I >> thought they would balance, but when I did the addition, the total of >> Liability + Equity matched the expected total from previous Gnucash >> versions, but the Total Assets was now reporting an amount different, by >> $0.03. Nothing I did to update the included accounts would resolve this >> difference. I'm pretty sure I don't have a renegade asset account hidden >> somewhere with $0.03 in it... Differences of this magnitude I find are >> usually rounding errors. But not sure what this is or where it is coming >> from. >> >> 2) When I saw the changes in the report options of version 3.903, I made >> sure that I *didn't* press the 'Save Config' button so it wouldn't >> overwrite my existing config for this report. Later, I opened the old 3.10 >> released version so I could see exactly how the options were set up in the >> previous Gnucash, and when I opened the saved report 'Balance Today', all >> the options had been changed to the incorrect ones that I had seen with >> version 3.903, e.g. the date was changed from Today to 'End of accounting >> period', the boxes for currency and exchange rates were now checked, etc. >> And in fact the file 'saved-reports-2.8' had been completely overwritten >> by >> v3.903 and all my dozens of saved reports now had incorrect settings. >> Maybe >> this is the expected behavior? But it was certainly unexpected to me... I >> had to go into my Timeshift and get the most recent backup of >> 'saved-reports-2.8' to restore all my settings. >> >> Hope all this is clear, and helpful. Let me know if you have any >> questions. >> >> *Mark Sattolo* >> *mh.sa...@gmail.com <mh.sa...@gmail.com>* >> *(613) 447-5385* >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:05 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 11:51 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> > > >> > > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.903, the first >> testing >> > release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0. >> > >> > A further note for developers: This release begins Feature Freeze, >> please >> > commit only bug fix changes until we release 4.0. >> > >> > String freeze is in two weeks, so if you have any commits that will >> > require new or changed translatable strings get them in ASAP! >> > >> > Regards, >> > John Ralls >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnucash-announce mailing list >> > gnucash-annou...@gnucash.org >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-announce >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
