New Budget Report

[Benjamin Johnsen]

Jeff,

Here is my budget report that now works for me on 2.4.0.  I don't know that
the render time is under 20 or 30 seconds.

Thanks,
Ben

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Jeff Kletsky <gnucash at allycomm.com> wrote:

> I'd be happy just to get a budget report that was correct, rendered in a
> lot less than the current 20-30 seconds (scheme sucks for HTML the way it
> builds tables right now), and I could actually print out the results.
>
> I'd enjoy seeing either of these reports under 2.4. I am soooo close to
> just reading everything directly from the database (since the idea of
> writing wrappers for the dozens of .so isn't terribly appealing either).
>
> I've got a little time, I'm hand-entering hundreds of numbers for my 2011
> budget.
>
>
> On 01/12/2011 01:33 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
>
>> Hmmm....  Yeah.  Another useful column for my report might be "same month
>> last
>> year" and/or "YTD last year"
>>
>> Well, given a flexible enough engine, it would be easy to take column
>> values
>> from different years or different budgets.
>>
>> I like the colouring idea.  I think that ultimately, we might want a
>> generic
>> report engine which provides various things (columns, rows, totals,
>> colouring).
>> Since we now have webkit which supports css and javascript, we can have
>> collapsing columns and rows (e.g. expand/collapse the income section).  On
>> top
>> of this base engine, build a budget report engine.  On top of that, a
>> budget
>> report.
>>
>>  Phil
>> ---------
>> I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for
>> it.
>>
>>
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