Expense Bar Chart Report Errors

[Geert Janssens]

Hi David,

Nice catch!

I do consider this a bug. Gnucash should handle this situation more gracefully. There are several possible ways to do so though I can't analyse right now how difficult each way would be to code.

- ideally gnucash should just generate the report as requested: display the graph based on de entries in Expenses:Entertainment:Movies aggregated on Expenses:Entertainment
- if that's too complicated, it should at least return a better error message
- or prevent the user from making this combination of report settings

Regards,
Geert 

"David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> schreef op 28 september 2016 06:36:22 CEST:
>Michael, 
>I get that error as well, following your steps. The barchart report
>aggregates bars to a particular level in the account hierarchy, which
>defaults to 2 levels. If the only account you choose is at a deeper
>level than that, you will get this error. You can change the "Show
>Accounts until level" on the accounts tab of the report options.
>Don't know if that qualifies as a bug or not. ..
>David 
>
> 
> 
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:09, Fross, Michael<michael at fross.org> wrote: 
> Hello David,
>
>Apologies!  I should have included that.  I'm running the latest
>version
>(2.6.14) on Windows 10.
>
>The program does not crash.  I get that error the the cursor remains a
>circle, but it' still usable to click in GNUCash.
>
>No report is generated.  The screen just contains the error message.
>
>Michael
>
>On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:55 PM, David Carlson
><david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I am not sure why no one has responded, but I think that we need more
>> information,  What version of GnuCash are you using and what
>operating
>> system do you have?
>>
>> Does the program crash or just give an error and fail to create the
>report?
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org>
>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Fairly new to GNUCash (and really enjoying it) but I'm getting an
>error
>>> running a report and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot.
>>>
>>> Within the "Income & Expense \ Expense Bar Chart" report, if I
>choose a
>>> top
>>> level expense account, everything works.  If I choose a sub-account,
>I
>>> receive "An error occurred while running the report."
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> Open the Expense Bar Chart report then:
>>>
>>> Select:
>>>  Expenses:Entertainment
>>>
>>>  Result:  Everything works fine
>>>
>>> Select:
>>>  Expenses:Entertainment:Movies
>>>
>>>  Result:  Receive Error
>>>
>>> I'm looking to see, over time, how much I spend month by month in
>one
>>> account.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure where to find the log or how to best troubleshoot
>this.  I
>>> assume this is known as it seems like a common task, but I'm not
>sure.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Michael
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