Why the global reference does not change the reports?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting He Li <demonstrate at hotpop.com>:

> Hi! I am glad to use GnuCash as my buddy to aid my college life finance. I
> get
> a little problem with the Preference in the Edit menu. There is a SummaryBar
> to define the starting date and ending date for the summary. I find it does
> do something to the Report->Account Summary function, but when I tried
> Report->Income and Expense->* and something like that, the starting and
> ending dates have to be set every time I open it. It is a little nuisance,
> anyway. But I find no way to keep the settings. So I am asking for a
> possible
> solution. I'd really appreciate any response. Thank you!

You have two options:

1) Don't close the report.  Gnucash will reload and re-run the report next time
you start the application and it will remember your settings.

2) Save the report, assuming you're using a recent-enough version of gnucash. 
This will create a "custom saved" report which you can later re-run.

Personally, I recommend option #1.

-derek
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