2 Reports Questions

Mark Ewers bigdogmoe at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 15:22:58 EST 2007


Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting JUNIPER <snijuniper at comcast.net>:
>
>   
>>   1. My main accounts window has accounts with up to 9 sub-accounts
>> listed beneath them. The master account shows the total from all of the
>> sub-accounts, but when I try to create a report selecting a number of
>> the master accounts the values of those accounts appear as zero. This
>> seems like a flaw. (I can, of course, select all of the sub-accounts to
>> get the total but it would be preferable to just select the master
>> accounts.)
>>     
>
> This is correct behavior.  Reports act on individual accounts.  You
> can select the "select subaccounts" and then limit the number of
> subaccounts displayed to get the behavior in the reports that you
> desire.  But reports don't work recursively.
>   
Any thoughts to making recursion an option? I too encountered this 
behavior and it caught me unawares. I realized what was happening, but 
couldn't help asking "I wonder if..."


Mark
> ...
>>    Steve J
>>     
>
> -derek
>   



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