Filtering problem with Transaction Reports

[Derek Atkins]

Yep, the filter rule is specifically looking at the "corresponding
account full-name", which is necessarily NULL for split transactions.

Can you file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org?

Thanks,

-derek

Chris Gentle <gentlec at hiwaay.net> writes:

> Hi.  I'm having a Transaction Report problem.  I wonder if someone
> could help me out and let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> Basically, I want to see what Expenses:House:Improvements
> transactions that I put on a particular credit card (liability)
> account during the past month.  I want to setup a filter so that
> only Expenses:House:Improvements show up in my report.  Seems fairly
> simple.
> 
> I begin by starting a Transaction Report.  I go to the "Accounts"
> tab and select my credit card account in the "Report Accounts" box
> and Expenses:House:Improvements in the "Filter Accounts" box.  Then
> I set the "Filter Type" to "Include Transactions to/from Filter
> Account".  I also set the report style to "Multi-Line" in order to
> see more information about the transactions.
> 
> The resulting report completely leaves out all transactions that
> were Split transactions.  It only includes transactions that were
> not Splits.  In my particular case, only one of my transactions
> showed up in the report and there were quite a few that should have
> been there.
> 
> Similarly, if I set the "Filter Type" to "Exclude Transactions" then
> once again, Splits will be ignored and will NOT be excluded from the
> report.
> 
> It looks like that when the "Filter Type" is set to anything other
> than "None", all matching transactions that are within a Split will
> not be included in or excluded from the report.  Setting "Filter
> Type" to "None" shows all transactions, even those inside Splits.
> 
> Can anyone try running a similar report and see if you can verify
> this? 
> 
> I'm using GnuCash 1.8.3 compiled from source.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Chris
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