GnuCash budget report

[Rasmus Tamstorf]

Hi Steven / GnuCash developers,

I've found your mail to the gnucash developer list regarding budget
report 
improvements to GnuCash in the archive. What you describe is almost
exactly 
what I'm looking for, so I have a couple of questions for you (or any
other
developer who wants to speak up) : 

a) It doesn't look like the patch was accepted upstream, and other
changes 
   have been made to the mainline since then, so the patch no longer
   applies 
   cleanly. Have you kept the patch up-to-date yourself ? 

b) You listed out a couple of bugs that you were aware of. Have you had
a 
   chance to address any of those ? 

Sincerely,
Rasmus Tamstorf

On September 8, 2006 Steven Wilton wrote : 

I like the budget feature in gnucash 2.0, but there were a few features
that 
I felt were missing in the report.  Unfortunately I've not programmed in 
guile or lisp before, but I gave it a shot, and thought I'd send the
work 
I'd done to this list in case anyone else thinks the features are
useful.

The patch does 3 things:
1 - It adds the sub-accounts in the budget columns to give a total.  I
did 
this because the actual columns already contained the total of all 
sub-accounts.
2 - It adds an option to make the budget and actual amounts cumulative.
3 - It allows the user to select a single budget period to show data
for.
4 - It reduces the displayed accounts to income and expense only (not a
core 
feature, but it was the only way I could see to easily remove all the
asset 
and liability accounts from the report)
5 - It makes the default display depth 3, once again not a core feature.

There are a few bugs that I'm aware of:
1 - For some reason the code that adds the sub-totals for the budget
columns 
sometimes ends up with a blank entry.  I have no idea why this is
ocurring, 
as there is no pattern that I can see.
2 - The report takes a very long time to run.  I've probably done
something 
wrong int he code to make it run slowly.
3 - The number of periods that are displayed in the options menu is 
hard-coded to 12.  This value should really be obtined from the number
of 
periods in the budget.


I hope the work I've done is useful.

regards

Steven 

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