[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903
Christopher Lam
christopher.lck at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 11:44:54 EDT 2020
Good luck. I've just verified that the old (3.x) balance-sheet date
defaults to "end-of-accounting-period", so, the first few lines shouldn't
be added.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 15:41, mark sattolo <mh.satto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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