totals checkbox in Register report not working?

[marthter]

Thanks for your quick reply. A bug report has been filed:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115611

Martin


Derek Atkins wrote:

>Hi,
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>I suggest you file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org
>about this problem
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>-derek
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>marthter <marthter at yahoo.ca> writes:
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>>Hi,
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>>First off, GnuCash is awesome so thank you to all developers.
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>>I am using GnuCash 1.8.1 as installed with RedHat 9.
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>>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.)
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>>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.
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>>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.)
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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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