questions about budget.scm

[Don Zickus]

Hello,

I was trying to figure out how to tweak the Budget report (ie
reports/standard-report/budget.scm) to my liking.  However my scheme skills
are not that good and I am having trouble understanding some of the code.
Can someone who is familiar with the code help guide me through it?

Some of the things I wanted to accomplish:

- widen the account labels column.  the account name wrapping makes it hard
to read.  exporting to html and manually increasing colspan to something
greater than 1 works.  however, I can't figure out where in the source code
the colspan variable is set to 1.

- I wanted to implement a feature from the other reports, which was 'do not
show accounts with zero totals'.  There are so many accounts/sub-account I
do not use that it becomes noisy to see all of them.  My question is, is
there a quick way to figure this out.  I know there is a for-loop to loop
through all the accounts and a call to get the data for that account before
being passed to a function that displays the data.  I wasn't sure at that
particular moment, if a test could be applied to filter zero-total accounts
out.

- I wanted to add a totals row at the bottom of the report too.  I was
wondering, if one can get the total for the top level account (from the
summation of the sub-accounts), wouldn't the book total just be the
summation of all the top-level accounts?  If so, how can I apply that to the
bottom of the report (ok I know where but what account name can I use to
retrieve that info?)?

Separately regarding budget creation:

- is there a way to easily copy-n-paste the previous month's data to next
month.  Typing by hand is very very tedious.


Let me know if these questions need more clarification.  Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Don