Reports sorting bug in 1.4.9

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:27:35 -0800


Paul Lussier writes:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I discovered a bug in the Reports feature last night in 1.4.9.  
> 
> I was trying to create a transaction report with Date (w/ subtotals monthly)
> being the primary key, sorted Ascending (no secondary key).  Unfortunately,
> the report kept coming out improperly sorted:
> 
> 	Januay
> 	December,
> 	February
> 	November
> 	March
> 	October
> 	April
> 	September
> 	May
> 	August
> 	June
> 	July

I can't seem to reproduce this on 1.4.10, but there weren't any transaction
report changes from 1.4.9 to 1.4.10. Does this happen for any account(s) you
select? What locale do you run gnucash in?


> Also, I find the order of the report a little awkward.  Rather than the order
> of:
> 	Amount, Account, Memo, Description, Number, Date
> 
> I would have expected something more similar to the register, with an order o
> 
> 	Account, Date, Number, Description, Memo, Amount
> 
> This seems a little more intuitive and natural to me. Is there any way to 
> customize this?

You would need to hack a little guile (scheme) in the transaction report.
There's no way to customize it in the GUI.

dave