More transaction report troubles ...

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Gentle <gentlec at hiwaay.net> writes:

> I am having another transaction report problem involving split
> transactions.  It may be related to the bug report I filed a couple
> of weeks ago, bug id 113461 which was fixed by Derek.

Hmm, it may be related...

> It seems that when I generate a transaction report to total up an
> expense, this month's groceries for example, the amounts that show
> up on each line are the total amount of each transaction, not the
> amount of the item within the split.  Instead of giving me the total
> amount I've spent on groceries, it gives me the total of all
> transactions that have "groceries" as a split item.  Not exactly
> what I was expecting.

No, it's showing the splits associated with the accounts.  For example
I just selected "select all" for report accounts, selected
"Expenses:Taxes:Federal" for the Filter Account, and set the filter
type to "include".  The report gives me a bunch of transactions..  It
gives me a list of the transactions from the bank account (which is
the total for each transaction), but it also shows each account,
enumerated...  So I go down and find the "Expenses:Taxes:Federal" and
it shows me just that split.

> Can anyone verify this?  Am I doing something wrong?  I'm using
> gnucash 1.8.4.

Well, I just tried this with CVS and it worked right.  Testing
1.8.4 with the same report it looks the same, so I think this is
your configuration or interpretation of the report.

> Thanks!

-derek

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