[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903
mark sattolo
mh.satto at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 11:41:00 EDT 2020
Thanks. I'll give it a try. I'll just update the source in my git folder
for tag 3.903 and rebuild if I can't figure out how to modify the flatpak.
*Mark Sattolo*
*mh.satto at gmail.com <mh.satto at gmail.com>*
*(613) 447-5385*
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:36 AM Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> The reports for balance-sheet and income-statement were replaced with the
> multicolumn ones. See the release notes. This was described in devel a few
> weeks/months ago.
>
> Try the following patch which will reduce the discrepancy in the default
> options between old and new. You may be able to modify the patch from
> within the flatpak (but I'm not sure).
>
> modified gnucash/report/reports/standard/balsheet-pnl.scm
> @@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ also show overall period profit & loss."))
> (gnc:options-add-date-interval!
> options gnc:pagename-general optname-startdate optname-enddate "c")
>
> + (gnc:option-set-default-value
> + (gnc:lookup-option options gnc:pagename-general optname-enddate)
> 'today)
> +
> (add-option
> (gnc:make-multichoice-callback-option
> gnc:pagename-general optname-period
> @@ -1107,6 +1110,22 @@ also show overall period profit & loss."))
> retained-earnings-fn))))
> #:negate-amounts? #t)
>
> + (add-to-table multicol-table-right (_ "Liability and Equity")
> + (append liability-accounts
> + equity-accounts
> + (if common-currency
> + (list (vector (_ "Unrealized Gains")
> + unrealized-gain-fn))
> + '())
> + (if (null? income-expense)
> + '()
> + (list (vector (_ "Retained Earnings")
> + retained-earnings-fn))))
> + #:negate-amounts? #t
> + #:show-title? #f
> + #:show-accounts? #f
> + #:show-total? #t)
> +
> (if (and common-currency show-rates?)
> (add-to-table multicol-table-right (_ "Exchange Rates")
> asset-liability
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:18, mark sattolo <mh.satto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I started using Gnc 3.903 yesterday
>> morning. This is a version I built from git using tag '3.903' on June 2.
>> It
>> built without any problems, so I assumed it was good, but now it occurs to
>> me that all these problems may just be due to a problem with my build. But
>> I thought i would report now anyway just in case there are general issues
>> with this version. I was actually going to try a flatpak build of 3.903,
>> but I couldn't tell from any of the build names in Gnucash flatpak repo
>> <https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/> which one is for version
>> 3.903.
>>
>> Anyway, everything seemed fine with 3.903 until I opened one of my saved
>> reports. The appearance of the report was essentially unrecognizable. I
>> only ever use my saved reports and their appearance hasn't changed for
>> years, for any other Gnucash version (release or maint) until 3.903. So I
>> went in to the report *options* to see if I could restore the layout to
>> what i was used to:
>>
>> Commodities tab:
>> there is a new Common Currency checkbox at the top, which was unchecked,
>> and everything below was greyed out. But the two checkboxes 'Show original
>> currency amount' and 'Show exchange rates' were both checked, even though
>> in my original options, the previous two checkboxes on this tab: 'Show
>> foreign currencies' and 'Show exchange rates' were both saved as
>> *unchecked*.
>> So, checking the Common Currency box to ungrey the other options and then
>> unchecking the currency and exchange rate boxes, restored the layout of
>> the
>> report to basically what I was familiar with, as it no longer had long
>> lists of commodities under essentially every sub-total.
>>
>> General tab:
>> the report I was looking at, which I run often, is a balance sheet for all
>> my accounts, for date 'Today'. The old options had a select list titled
>> 'Balance sheet date' which was set to the relative date of Today. The new
>> options have a Start Date and an End Date. The Start Date is greyed out,
>> so
>> I guess it is fairly easy to figure out that since it doesn't make sense
>> to
>> have two dates for a Balance, that the End Date is the active one.
>> Unfortunately, the date shown in 'End Date' was not 'Today' but had been
>> changed to 'End of accounting period'... So I changed it back to 'Today'
>> to
>> get the proper balance date as it had been before.
>>
>> Other problems:
>> 1) There used to be a final total for the credit side of 'Total
>> Liabilities
>> and Equity', which would match the Total Assets line if the balance was
>> done properly (sometimes it doesn't balance which means that I have
>> created
>> some new accounts in the meantime and have to update the saved config),
>> but
>> this line was missing and I tried every option I could find to restore it,
>> but nothing worked. Which means to ensure your balance is actually
>> working,
>> you have to add on your own the Total Liability and Total Equity lines and
>> compare this to Total Assets.
>> So, just from looking, I could tell the actual totals were close, and I
>> thought they would balance, but when I did the addition, the total of
>> Liability + Equity matched the expected total from previous Gnucash
>> versions, but the Total Assets was now reporting an amount different, by
>> $0.03. Nothing I did to update the included accounts would resolve this
>> difference. I'm pretty sure I don't have a renegade asset account hidden
>> somewhere with $0.03 in it... Differences of this magnitude I find are
>> usually rounding errors. But not sure what this is or where it is coming
>> from.
>>
>> 2) When I saw the changes in the report options of version 3.903, I made
>> sure that I *didn't* press the 'Save Config' button so it wouldn't
>> overwrite my existing config for this report. Later, I opened the old 3.10
>> released version so I could see exactly how the options were set up in the
>> previous Gnucash, and when I opened the saved report 'Balance Today', all
>> the options had been changed to the incorrect ones that I had seen with
>> version 3.903, e.g. the date was changed from Today to 'End of accounting
>> period', the boxes for currency and exchange rates were now checked, etc.
>> And in fact the file 'saved-reports-2.8' had been completely overwritten
>> by
>> v3.903 and all my dozens of saved reports now had incorrect settings.
>> Maybe
>> this is the expected behavior? But it was certainly unexpected to me... I
>> had to go into my Timeshift and get the most recent backup of
>> 'saved-reports-2.8' to restore all my settings.
>>
>> Hope all this is clear, and helpful. Let me know if you have any
>> questions.
>>
>> *Mark Sattolo*
>> *mh.satto at gmail.com <mh.satto at gmail.com>*
>> *(613) 447-5385*
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:05 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 11:51 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.903, the first
>> testing
>> > release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0.
>> >
>> > A further note for developers: This release begins Feature Freeze,
>> please
>> > commit only bug fix changes until we release 4.0.
>> >
>> > String freeze is in two weeks, so if you have any commits that will
>> > require new or changed translatable strings get them in ASAP!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
>> >
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