[GNC-dev] Budgets: showing total-to-date in budget period, and previous month totals only

[Christopher Lam]

Hi Phil, glad to know I haven't broken anything. Can't think what to do 
about headers; these are problems that should be fixed in CSS! If you 
wish I can submit a PR but ideally would wish to create a satisfactory 
test datafile and report output. I don't use budget, so, I wouldn't be 
the best here. If you can send me, I'll try make a basic test for it. C

On 23/06/18 20:05, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am running 3.1 and it works. The only comment I have is that the 
> 'Bgt', 'Act' and 'Diff' headings are left-justified and look a bit 
> strange. I think center- or right-justified would be better.
>
> Thanks for doing this.
> Phil
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:16 AM Christopher Lam 
> <christopher.lck at gmail.com <mailto:christopher.lck at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Phil
>     I've taken the liberty of fixing up your YTD-budget, renamed to
>     budget-ytd.
>     I don't use budgeting myself and cannot check figures. But it
>     seems useful enough.
>     https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/master-ytd
>     Would you be kind to double check it works as expected in
>     3.1/maint onwards?
>     C
>
>     On 26 March 2018 at 20:04, Phil Longstaff
>     <phil.longstaff at gmail.com <mailto:phil.longstaff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I have attached a report which does this.
>
>         I have attached ytd-budget.scm. I have this file in
>         c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\reports. I then add this line to
>         c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\config.user:
>
>             (load "c:\\Users\\phill\\.gnucash\\reports\\ytd-budget.scm")
>
>         This gives me a new "YTD budget" with 3 sets of columns:
>         1) selected month
>         2) year-to-date
>         3) full year
>
>         It always shows actual and budget amounts, and there is an
>         option to add
>         difference. There is also an option to select which month you
>         want to show.
>
>         On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Macho Philipovich
>         <macho.p at riseup.net <mailto:macho.p at riseup.net>>
>         wrote:
>
>         > Dear Gnucash Users,
>         >
>         >
>         > I am looking to for a report/view that will show
>         > budgeted/actual/difference amounts for selected accounts for the
>         > previous month, as well as the totals for all months to date
>         in the
>         > current budgeting period.
>         >
>         >
>         > The wiki seems to suggest that GnuCash does not natively
>         support this,
>         > but that it's possible using the third-party "Little Budget
>         Tool":
>         >
>         >
>         > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Budget_History#Add-On:_.22The_
>         > Little_Budget_Tool.22
>         >
>         >
>         > When I tried to download and compile the said software,
>         however I didn't
>         > get anywhere. I couldn't get ./configure to recognize the
>         presence of
>         > qt, and when I told it to ignore, it balked on the first g++
>         command. On
>         > the one hand, it would not surprise me to learn that I'm
>         just not doing
>         > the configure && make process properly. On the other, this
>         software was
>         > last revised thirteen years ago.
>         >
>         >
>         > Any advice you can provide on getting the report view I'm
>         looking for
>         > would be greatly appreciated!
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         >
>         > Macho
>         >
>         >
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