I don't know, sorry. You're very welcome to dive into code and try. https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/229 will be a good place to start research.
On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 10:24 David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > Chris, > > While I understand and respect the goal of backward compatibility, I'll > point out that your changes to this report have already broken backward > compatibility, as evidenced by my original example. Settings which worked > previously yield meaningless results now, and I have had to go through > every one of my reports that are based on the transaction report and fix > what got broken. > > For my use case (not all that exotic, IMHO), the setting appears to be > broken; when transactions are shown, are you saying the transactions are > reversed, but the totals are not? Because that would drive me crazy... > > Is there truly no way to store and calculate values internally to the > report but display results the way the user requests to see them? > > David > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:13, Christopher Lam > <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > Sadly, the gnucash project has a long history of never removing features. > > The amount sign reversal is still functional for the transactional > amounts. Only the subtotals are unaffected. > > On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 09:08 D <sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Then why include the option? It no longer does anything, except imply to > the user that they have control over something they Nik longer can control. > > David > > > On January 17, 2019, at 6:27 AM, Christopher Lam < > christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is by design. > > Previously a transaction report including *all* accounts for a specified > period would erroneously add the sign-reversed amounts as displayed, which > would lead to the grand total being a nonsensical number. Eg income $100 > expense > $50. Amounts: > Bank $100 -$50 > Income $100 > Expense $50 > Grand total $200 (nonsense) > > From 3.0 onwards the subtotal strategy always adds the non-reversed > amounts, which means the grand total for all accounts for any specified > period would always be $0 thanks to the accounting equation. > > Bank $100 -$50 > Income -$100 (subtotal negative) > Expense $50 > Grand total $0 > > On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 00:34 David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Chris, > > I do note one issue with the new transaction report: it doesn’t seem to > utilize the Sign Reverses option—at least, not that I can see. > > Cheers, > David > > > On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:29 PM, David T. via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > > Chris, > > > > Thank you for the lead. > > > > It turns out that I can get almost exactly the same result using the > hide transactional data option, when I combine it with "Amount - Single”. > The only difference is that the Account name is not presented before the > total line. I consider that to be an improvement, actually. > > > > Bug avoided. > > > > David > > > >> On Jan 16, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> There's "Sorting / Show subtotals only (hide transactional data)" > >> > >> You may be right that 'Display / Amount' = none is not completely > handled as before. > >> > >> Please file a bug, and screenshot a sample report, anonymised; please > enable 'General / Add options summary' to display options used. > >> > >> Also, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795064 > >> > >> Thank you for finding these edge . > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
