budget report questions

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:59:19PM +1000, Risto Paasila wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to create a budget report which contains only a subset of  
> accounts.
> For example these are the some accounts:
> 
> equipment:cleaning
> equipment:grounds
> equipment:catering
> consumables:cleaning
> consumables:catering
> 
> I want display a budget report for a subset containing only cleaning,
> and another one for catering and so on.
> 
> The problem is that when I select only the relevant accounts,
> the report only shows the last account name, e.g. cleaning.
> 
> The display looks something like this:
> cleaning 50 34
> cleaning 23 5
> 
> Can it somehow be made to display the full account name (there is a  
> flag in the options)?
> I would like the display to look like:
> equipment:cleaning  50 34
> consumables:cleaning 23 5

There is an option to do this, and it's apparently broken!  Please
file a bug on this.

> Or do you have any better suggestions how to track business area  
> budgets?
> 
> Is the any way to have a total budget amount and total actuals for  
> the displayed accounts?

Unfortuantely not, although this is a frequently requested feature.

-chris

> 
> Thanks
> Risto
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