Good luck. I've just verified that the old (3.x) balance-sheet date defaults to "end-of-accounting-period", so, the first few lines shouldn't be added.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:41, mark sattolo <mh.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
