Chris,
I think that users would like to know what is happening on this front.
Users are very interested in these developments, and there are far more
readers on users, who may have additional suggestions for use-cases and
features. Given the fact that there are current threads on the user list
that ask this very question, it seems to me unhelpful to split this off to
the devel list, where those users will not learn of this.
For what it’s worth, I have yet to see or use the new transaction report,
since my system hates both me and custom reports. I doubt most normal users
are aware of the new version of the report and its features, for the same
reasons.
David
On Feb 10, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi D
Wish to move to devel, technical and policy details abound.
There's already work done to enable periodic subtotals comparison. This
feature has been named "Subtotal Summary Grid". This is done by reusing and
augmenting the (most excellent) transaction report's grouping and
subtotals. I'm not sure whether this allows 100% coverage of users'
requirements for periodic comparison, but I suspect it would.
For example, setting accounts = expense accounts (+ children),
primary-key = account, secondary-key = date, secondary-subtotals = monthly,
subtotal-summary-grid = enabled -> will provide a nice 2D grid whereby
Y-axis = accounts, X-axis = monthly expense subtotals. This feature will
reuse the subtotals already generated within the transaction report,
therefore any errors in subtotals are not from my code. Example at
https://imgur.com/a/unDAD <https://imgur.com/a/unDAD>
Unfortunately it was completed after string and feature-freeze for
upcoming 3.0 -- I'm afraid that inclusion into 3.0 isn't guaranteed yet.
Although, as I have notified devs, if this feature is renamed "Grid", it
could be written into 3.0. The translated string "Grid" already exists.
If you wish to experiment, the code is currently available at
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/266/commits/
4d2ee75b4fa138c0534ae739089d4df70d6d4117 <https://github.com/Gnucash/
gnucash/pull/266/commits/4d2ee75b4fa138c0534ae739089d4df70d6d4117> -
(note, this commit link isn't permanent).
C
On 10/02/18 13:35, D via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello,
I want to raise a discussion here about the creation of a generic
comparison report.
I would preface this discussion by saying that, although I am a long
time user of Gnucash, I have repeatedly demonstrated my utter inability to
generate useful code for the project, so any ultimate action on the results
of this discussion would have to be applied by someone else.
As we have seen recently, and as I have seen repeatedly over the years,
one of the more common requests for reporting is to be able to see numbers
from different time periods in order to evaluate a financial situation.
As far as I can tell, other than the multi column report, nothing of
the sort exists in Gnucash. I started thinking that it might be good to
begin the process of detailing what features might go into such a report in
order to make it generally useful, with the idea of perhaps stirring up
someone's interest in creating such a report.
Some initial ideas include:
* Definable periods. Should be able to set the unit period, with
options for common units (month, quarter, year).
* Definable numbers of periods.
* Definable accounts, but with some common groupings (Assets,
Liabilities, Investments... Are there others?)
* Perhaps the option to use another report as a template? I have no
idea how that might work, but the fact that folks seem to want side by side
balance sheets suggests this to me.
Does anyone else think this would be helpful? Is it a reasonable idea?
Is it something that someone in the community with Scheme skills is
interested in pursuing? Are there other elements that would make this a
better idea? Are there elements that are absurdly difficult or impossible?
Cheers,
David
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