[GNC-dev] Budget accumulate amounts

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Aug 30 13:30:10 EDT 2019


Somebody had better get hot on the beta testing then, 3.7 will be released next weekend. If you're uncomfortable with that revert the change and reapply it afterwards.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Aug 30, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've renamed to 'Use accumulated amounts' in maint.
> A stretch of beta testing for this prior to release of 3.7 would be good.
> 
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 06:14, David T. via gnucash-devel <
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> "Show Accumulated Amounts"
>> would be my preference.
>> David
>> 
>> 
>>  On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 9:09, Adrien Monteleone<
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:   How about: ‘report amounts as
>> YTD’
>> 
>> If ‘Year’ isn’t necessarily a consistent concept, then something like you
>> suggested, ‘report/use accumulated amounts’ would work.
>> 
>> I can play with it soon. (as well as test the First Day of Week fix) Now I
>> guess I just need to set up a build workflow for Mac. (I’ve built on Ubuntu
>> several times, but never tried on Mac yet)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Aug 20, 2019 w34d232, at 9:46 PM, Christopher Lam <
>> christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear All
>>> 
>>> The current maint for upcoming 3.7 includes an upgrade to the basic
>> budget
>>> report; it incorporates calculations to accumulate budgeted and actual
>>> amounts from the beginning of the budget period. The aim is to
>> incorporate
>>> Phil Longstaff's budget-ytd strategy into the main budget report. I have
>>> labelled the option "General"/"Use envelope budgeting".
>>> 
>>> I am fairly certain that my calculations are correct but would like some
>>> confirmation. Moreover I am not happy with the option name. What should
>> it
>>> be?
>>> e.g. "Accumulate amounts across periods", "Use accumulated amounts".
>>> 
>>> Suggestions welcome!
>> 
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