Specify scale of y-axis of Expense Barchart in terms of money units

[Wm]

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:49:26 
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Anton Kratz <anton.kratz at gmail.com>

>I am using GnuCash for about half a year now to keep track of my 
>personal
>finances, what money comes in and what goes out, with expense accounts 
>for
>rent, electricity, groceries, transport and so on. Overall I think 
>GnuCash
>is awesome and I don't understand how I could live without it, though I
>personally find it weak when it comes to actually analyzing where my 
>money
goes, i.e. the especially the reports could be much improved, and 
generally
I found it to actually have a steep learning curve overall. Anyway, I 
now
write to gnucash-user regarding the Expense Barcharts.

I made several custom configurations of the Expense Barchart, which show 
me
how much money I have spent each month in certain categories. The 
reports
are almost exactly how I want them to be, the only problem is that they 
are
difficult to compare, because the scale of the y-axis varies with the
maximum amount of money spent on a specific day.

It is possible to adjust the absolute height of the y-axis in terms of
pixels under:

Reports -> Income & Expense -> Expense Barchart

Options -> Display -> Plot Height

However, what I want to do is to specify the absolute scale of the 
y-axis
in terms of currency. I.e. for each month, the y-axis should be f.e. 400
pixel high (easily doable) and max out out at, say, 20.000 Yen.

This way it would be possible to compare several custom Expense 
Barcharts
much more easily.

Is this possible?

Not the way you want.  However you say you are fairly new and may well 
have missed

Reports / Sample & Custom / Custom Multicolumn Report

using this you can put two or more reports next to each other and adjust 
the heights as you wish.

gnc won't presume relative values so you'll have to make the y-axis for 
Yen vs Euro vs USD more or less match up yourself but once you know 
about this a lot of comparative reporting becomes available.



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Wm...