drill-down reports?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"J.D. Laub" <gnucash at laubster.org> writes:

[snip]
> One thing that came up was when I ran Reports | Income & Expense
> | Expense Piechart, we got a nice picture, but couldn't "drill down"
> (double-click) on the high-level items to see the details.  For
> instance, I wanted to drill down on the utilities slice to see how
> much was spent on electric, phone, etc.  Yes, I do see the "Show
> Accounts until level" option, but for interactive browsing, I'd like
> to see just the high levels first, then drill into details on demand
> (vs. cranking up that option & getting all the detail up front).
>
> I would've sworn that was a feature, but I've a hunch my mind might
> be pulling up some very dusty Quicken memories & confusing its features
> with gnucash.  Is that the case, or did gnucash at one time support
> drill-down reports?  Or does it now & I'm just overlooking where it
> is?
>
> Almost forgot - I'm running 2.0.1 on ubuntu 6.0.6.  And just in case
> you don't hear it enough, thanks for a truly excellent software
> package. :-) Cheers...

In 1.8 (and prior) versions we used a graphic system called Guppi.
When we migrated to Gtk2 we had to find a replacement for Guppi
because it had gone defunct.  The replacement we chose is Gnome Office
Graphics (GoG/Goffice).  Unfortunately it was Guppi that provided
the drill-down callbacks, and Goffice does not provide those callbacks.
So....  We had a regression due to a change in our dependencies.

Unfortunately there's not much we can do about it at this time.
There MAY be a way to add these callbacks to GoG in some simple
additions, but nobody has done it yet.  I believe the hooks in
gnucash are still there so it's just a question of event
plumbing.

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-derek

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