New enhancement to balance-sheet report

[Yogesh Agrawal]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <
andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

> Apparently I should read -devel first...
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:53:56AM -0700, Yogesh Agrawal wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > "Yogesh Agrawal" <agrawaly at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I would like to make an enhancement to balance-sheet report in the
> > > > commodities page.
> > > > I would like to include Basis Calculation method as we have in the
> > > advance
> > > > portfolio report,
> > > > also I would like to have an option to choose either price source or
> > > basis
> > > > calculation as
> > > > the the calculated value on the balance sheet. I have couple of
> question
> > > for
> > > > the same
> > >
> > > Sounds great!
>
> I second this!
>
> ...
>
> >
> > I read HACKING and README.svn, as you said I don't have to rebuild
> gnucash,
> > could you guide me how do I test the changes that I am making on scheme
> > code.
>
> all you have to do is first make a copy of the original report file
> and stash it away somewhere. Then edit the existing report file,
> restart gnucash to test your changes. simple.
>
> Have you looked at the advanced portfolio report yet? The basis stuff
> is calculated very simply and should be easy to add in to the balance
> sheet. But (!) the balance sheet is built differently... you might
> have to dig into the html report libraries. I am willing to help in
> this effort in two ways: 1) help keep you pointed in the right
> direction in that code and 2) help factor out the basis calculations
> into a separate library for use by any report. The second has been on
> my to-do list for a while, though I've got almost zero time to work on
> it at the moment.
>

Perfect,  Yes I have looked into the advance portfolio, and saw the code for
basis calculation.
1) Where should I start on that code?
2) How do you want me to put the basis calculations into a separate library?


Thanks,
Yogesh



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