Basic reporting: Subtotal by Description field?

[Derek Atkins]

Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> writes:

> this has frustrated me for a while too as it crops up a lot in my
> business. I took a look at the code for that report and it is nowhere
> near as intuitive as the other reports. Hacking it won't be easy as
> the option setup is self updating... very confusing. Any devs wanna
> point us in the right direction there? 

I suspect you'll need to add to the option, and then during the
processing phase use a commodity-collector with buckets based
on the description.  So basically hash(description) -> collector
and then you can add to the collector when you see the description
again.

> A

-derek

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