Cross-reporting ?

[Thiers Botelho]

Well, I'm taking note of your suggestions and will give a try on them 
after installing GnuCash.

Thnx

Thiers





Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
11/07/2003 18:32

 
        Para:   "Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br>
        cc:     gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
        cco: 
        Assunto:        Re: Cross-reporting ?


"Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br> writes:

May I suggest you install gnucash (1.8.4 is current) and spend a day
or so playing with it?  It might help you understand what it offers
better than I can explain it.  In particular, many things are
possible, but that does not imply that it is easy or intuitive to
accomplish.

Well, the reports are a bit easier to grasp (IMHO) and modify by "non
programmers"..  Yes, you still have to write code, but you don't need
any kind of development platform.  The reports are written in scheme
(which is, admittedly, a programming language), but it means the
report code is more accessible to the average user.

We've had a number of "non programmers" submit reports over the years.
Generally they look at an existing report, find the online scheme
documentation at www.swiss.ai.mit.edu, ask a few questions for
gnucash-specific hooks (if those hooks aren't already in existence),
and make the changes they need/want.

For example, adding the ability to sort by "Action" would be rather
straightforward in the transaction report -- assuming the basic
transaction report meets your needs.  Unfortunately I can't answer
that unless you take a look at that report, I can only guess that it's
what you're looking for.

-derek