Report question: cash flow for 2010

[David Carlson]

On 4/8/2011 12:59 PM, David T. wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 4/8/11, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> From: David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: Report question: cash flow for 2010
>> To: "brad" <bradhaack at fastmail.us>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>, abrahams at acm.org
>> Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 9:58 AM
>> On 4/8/2011 11:01 AM, brad wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 11:08 -0400, Derek Atkins
>> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:02 am, Paul Abrahams
>> wrote:
>>>>> The
>>>>> documentation is of little help.  I'm
>> sure I'll want many other
>>>>> variations,
>>>>> but getting this first simple one is the
>> beginning.
>>>> Once you run the report, open the Report Options
>> dialog by clicking on the
>>>> "Options" button on the toolbar.  Then you
>> can reconfigure the report for
>>>> whatever you'd like, including setting different
>> dates.
>>> Since this seems to be easily overlooked by the 1st
>> timer and some of
>>> the default reports can take a long to time run, 
>> has it been considered
>>> to open up the Options dialog by default when a report
>> is run?   
>> Paul makes a good point.  Better documentation is
>> desperately needed.  I
>> also like Brad's suggestion. 
> WRT documentation, I submitted this just now:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647197
>
>> I think another option should be to select fonts and font
>> sizes.  In
>> particular, he Transaction Report *Shouts* in extremely
>> large type,
>> burning a lot of paper and toner or ink.  A print
>> preview would also
>> help, so we know in advance that the report will take half
>> a ream of
>> paper to print.
>>
>> David Carlson.
>>
>> David Carlson
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I see that bug report
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647197> and I hope it
triggers some action. 
I want to clarify one point, however, and that bug report is not the
right place for my clarification.  Actually, Quicken, including Quicken
2011, does produce reports to default settings before allowing the user
to change settings.  The big difference is that Quicken produces the
report in a separate window which allows continued activity in other
windows.  As you know, Quicken is a Windows OS only program that does
not need to be limited to code that compiles into many different OS's. 
Since GnuCash also allows new "pages" to be opened in separate windows,
There may be an interest in doing reports that way.
I think that there is room for more discussion on this topic.

David L Carlson
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