budget report questions

[Risto Paasila]

On 11/09/2007, at 11:09 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

> 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.

is it only a matter of modifying the report (budget.scm)?

Risto

>
> -chris
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Risto
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