Generating Custom Reports

[Derek Atkins]

Unfortunately most reports don't let you select an account
without also selecting all parent accounts.  This is probably
a bug, but nobody has been working on a way to fix it.

There's also no way to do your second request, without hacking
on the scheme code that implements the reports in question.

-derek

Russell Sutherland <russ at quist.ca> writes:

> Can someone direct me to a helpful guide in
> report generation? I have stumbled through the
> documentation and have been able to generate
> a customized Profit (Income - Expenses) report.
> I have been able to change some of the output
> detail and the begin and end time.
>
> What I want to do, and have not been able, is to
> select various sub accounts from both the income
> and expense side and remove them from the total.
> I can select/highlight the accounts in question,
> but unless the entire parent account is also selected
> the report does not generate any output. When the parent
> account (e.g. income) is selected, the report includes
> all sub-accounts. I can eliminate the 0.00 value accounts
> using the radio buttons.
>
> Additionally I would like to be able to take the totals
> for a given account over a given time interval and
> apply a fractional multiplier. E.g. in the case of
> house/office expenses, one is allowed (at least in Canada)
> to deduct a portion of the total expenses as a
> business expense.
>
> Are these things possible using GnuCash 1.8.12 ?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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