GnuCash Budget Report

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi Dmitry,

this is perfect news just at the right time, because I was starting to 
look into the exact same thing.

This topic is already reported in Bugzilla as

*Bug 729955* <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729955> 
-Enhancement request date range for the budget report
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729955

for which I wanted to prepare a solution proposal as a patch, but I did 
not get any further than studying the code up to now.

Can we put your solution into bugzilla as a patch, instead?
If you want me to I can help with that ...

Kind regards,
Carsten




On 07/14/2014 09:27 AM, Dmitry Pavlov wrote:
> Hi Peter!
> I've made modifications for this report to allow use ranges. It really
> improve readability. This changes in master branch already, but
> unfortunately they will not be released until next major of gnucash (merge
> was done after support branch of 2.6.x was made)
> You can read about changes here:
> http://blog.dnpavlov.com/2014/03/gnucash-budget-report-enhancement.html. It
> also tells how to apply this changes locally.
>
> I also thought about similiar changes (column freezes) but I set aside this
> activity because it leads to great rework of table generation code (if we
> want to do it properly), starting from good old refactoring and duplicates
> removal.
>
>
> 2014-07-14 10:27 GMT+04:00 Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>:
>
>> Dear Peter,
>>
>> although I did the cash-flow report, I don't know much scheme either.
>> It was mostly copying from other reports and lots of try and error ;-).
>>
>> Please ask your questions on the gnucash-devel mailing list (CC'ed).
>> See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for how to subscribe.
>>
>> Best,
>>   Herbert.
>>
>> Am 13.07.2014 13:16, schrieb Peter:
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> I wonder if you could help me as I’m getting quite stuck! I’ve been using
>>> GnuCash for a few years now and am a Delphi/C# developer with a very small
>>> amount of Python and unix exposure. I am trying to create a Budget Period
>>> Report, based on your Budget Report in GnuCash, budget.scm, based on
>>> Herbert Thoma's cash-flow.scm.
>>>
>>> My problem is that I have 12 periods in my budget, one for each month of
>>> the tax year. However, when I run the budget report, the columns go way off
>>> the edge of the screen, and I can’t see which accounts the figures are
>>> referring to, without having to export to OpenOffice spreadsheet and freeze
>>> the account name column (excel for mac doesn’t like the export for some
>>> reason).
>>>
>>> So I created a budget-period.scm copied from budget.scm. Well I got as
>>> far as adding the report to the budget menu (putting it in the standard
>>> reports folder, changing the GUID and the report name), and adding the
>>> period option into the options general tab (by copying the option code from
>>> budget-flow.scm) - see screenshots below.
>>>
>>> But I then got lost in the code, not really knowing Scheme (I did study
>>> LISP in varsity 20 years ago and can remember car cdr and cons, and have
>>> managed to get Scheme Petite going in a terminal window).
>>>
>>> I think the easiest way would be to limit periodList to the period I am
>>> looking for somehow, but I can’t seem to figure it all out from the Scheme
>>> scripting no matter how many times I read it or do google searches. Any
>>> pointers?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Peter Templin
>>> Johannesburg, South Africa.
>>>
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