"The selected accounts contain no data/transactions" but they do...

[Derek Atkins]

Diego <eldieguisimo at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Derek for the response.
>
> Is there any other report I can use to look at expenses from these
> expense-under-income accounts in a given year and as monthly averages?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Diego

Well, you could try the P&L report, but that wont give you monthly
averages.  I suppose you could run the P&L report per month?  You could
try the transaction report.  Or you could modify the Expense Piechart"
report to not ignore Income Placeholder accounts.

Such a patch would be gladly accepted. 

-derek

> On 04/17/2015 08:53 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Diego <eldieguisimo at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to get the "Expense Piechart" report for all expenses in
>>> the following account structure (in parenthesis is the type of
>>> account) for fundraising events for a non-profit:
>>>
>>> Events (income)
>>>        Event1  (income)
>>>              Income  (income)
>>>              Expenses  (expense)
>>>        Event2 (income)
>>>              Income (income)
>>>              Expenses (expense)
>>>
>>> When I try to run the report it says:
>>>
>>> "No data
>>> The selected accounts contain no data/transactions (or only zeroes) for
>>> the selected time period "
>>>
>>> According to the documentation this should work. Doesn't it? I'm
>>> missing something?
>>>
>>> If I change "Events" to be of type "Expense" (instead of "Income"), it
>>> does generate the report correctly.
>> The issue is that the "Expense Piechart" specifically looks for Expense
>> accounts, and it expects the full hierarchy to be of type Expense.  So
>> when your top-level account (Events) is of type "Income", the report
>> stops and says to itself "Oh, this is an Income account; I'll stop
>> looking below here".
>>
>>> I still need to keep Events, Event1, and Event2 as income accounts
>>> (for other reports, and the "signs" of numbers in different contexts).
>>>
>>> I'm running Gnucash 2.6.6.
>>>
>>> I will appreciate any help.
>> Unfortunately for this report you'll need to change the account types.
>> Either that or you'll need to fix the report.
>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Diego
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>> -derek
>>
>
>
>

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