There were two things in the existing budget report facility that I found lacking: its readability and the fact that the difference column showed the difference for the time period and not the difference YTD. So I made some modifications to the standard budget.scm to create budget-plus.scm with a budget stylesheet. There is an option to have the Diff field display YTD difference instead of period difference. The budget stylesheet has modifications that allow for a different background color in cells identified as being "Totals" cells. I tag each alternate time period column as a total column so I can improve readability with alternating background colors. (I first implemented by defing a new style tag, but that broke using budget-plus with any of the pre-defined stylesheets. So I kludged using the "totals" tag.)
I would like to also have an option for displaying budget values rounded to the nearest whole amount (no decimals) and to eliminate the currency symbol, making the info provided more concise. But figuring out how to do that was proving to be beyond my knowledge of scm and the code base. The two scm files can be include in the .gnucash directory and loaded by including the following two lines in config.user I also include a screenshot showing a sample budget using the ?improved? budget tool and what a report would look like without decimal places and currency symbol if that got implemented. budget-plus.scm <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4692751/budget-plus.scm> stylesheet-budget-plus.scm <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4692751/stylesheet-budget-plus.scm> Screenshot_from_2017-07-19_22-27-07.png <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4692751/Screenshot_from_2017-07-19_22-27-07.png> -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/budget-with-ytd-difference-option-and-improved-readability-tp4692751.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
