Please file a bug in https://bugs.gnucash.org/ and include relevant screenshots.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 08:17, Paul Bente via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Specifically, Income Statement (Multicolumn) and Balance Sheet > (Multicolumn) Reports > > I’m currently using GnuCash 5.5 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1. As I have done > for years now, I’m preparing year-end reports using Income Statement > (Multicolumn) and Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) from the Reports menu. I have > assigned Account Codes to Placeholder accounts so they sort in an > informative order instead of alphabetically by account name. I’m seeing > new, strange behavior this year. When I open the Income Statement > (Multicolumn) report it defaults to the current period 2024 (income and > expenses from 1/1/2024 to current date) and the Placeholder accounts sort > by Account Codes as expected. When I use “Options” to edit the start and > end of period to 1/1/2023 and 12/31/2023 and “Apply”, the sort order of > Placeholders changes to alphabetical. A similar thing happens with the > Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) report. > > This is new behavior. I have been using these reports for years including > when they were under the Experimental heading. I was using Gnucash 4 last > January (probably 4.13 as I usually keep up to date) without this problem. > Curiously, when I open a saved report configuration from last year, the > Placeholders sort by Account Code but if I edit the dates using Options, > that report also changes to alphabetical sorting. > Additional experimenting shows that any change to report dates triggers > this behavior. This behavior does not occur with the non-Multicolumn Income > Statement or Balance Sheet in my limited testing. > > Has anyone else seen this or is there a configuration parameter somewhere > that I am missing? I suspect this may be a bug in Gnucash 5. > > Best Regards, > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
