totals checkbox in Register report not working?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

I suggest you file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org
about this problem

-derek

marthter <marthter at yahoo.ca> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> First off, GnuCash is awesome so thank you to all developers.
> 
> I am using GnuCash 1.8.1 as installed with RedHat 9.
> 
> I have an account, say, Expenses:taxes:Sales Tax with no subaccounts.
> It has many debits - when I buy something, and some credits - when I
> return a purchase.  (All of these are splits because the tax is just a
> portion of the total bill on each purchase but I don't think that is
> related to the problem.)
> 
> I double click on the account to open the Register.  (I select a date
> range to reduce the size of the report - I don't think this is related
> to the problem.)
> 
> I click the Report button on the toolbar (or in the menu, Reports >
> Account Report) and the report shows up as another tab back in the main
> GnuCash window.  The report is titled "Expenses:taxes:Sales Tax -
> Register Report".  So far so good.
> 
> My problem is I need the report to show a debit total at the bottom of
> the debit column and a credit total at the bottom of the credit column.
>   All it shows is the net total of debits minus credits.  (Which, if
> Running Balance option is selected, and if the date range starts at show
> earliest, is the same as the Running Balance on the last line.)
> 
> I figured the Totals checkbox in the Report options would do this, but
> as far as I can see, it causes no change to this report whatsoever,
> whether selected or deselected.  This seems like a bug to me.
> 
> The help describes this checkbox as "Totals: Charts display totals in
> the chart legend if this option is selected."  which it seems only
> applies to the more graphical reports like pie and bar charts that
> actually have a Legend.  But if so, it should be removed from the
> Register report.  Or if this checkbox really belongs here, then the
> feature should be implemented.
> 
> I perused a few months of this mailing list without finding an answer
> there either.
> 
> I am looking into it myself, but it has been a very long time since I
> touched any Lisp, so someone else can probably jump in a lot faster than
> I can.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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