Assets over time

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Paolo Di Giacomo <pistadj-gnucash at yahoo.it>:

> Hi to all,
>
> I'd like to show assets over time value for one Fund I bought, using
> Fund prices updated with Price Editor.
> This is what I do:
> Reports->Assets & Liabilities -> Asset Barchart
> A barchart with my total libilities value vs time is shown.
> Now I edit the chart to have only one of my liability shown (the Fund).
> I click on "options" ; in "General Tab" I select "Price Source" as
> "Nearest in Time" and "Step Size" to "Week"; in "Account" tab I clear
> all default selection and I highlight the one I am interest in, only.
> Now, when I click "update" I receive the following message instead of
> the chart I expect: "No data -The selected accounts contain no
> data/transactions (or only zeroes) for the selected time period".
> Actually in the Fund movements there are no records (except the
> initial bought of Stocks) but I expect to have the chart showing the
> Funds value trend in time, using the values recorded in "price
> editor".
> Do you have any clue?

That's correct.  That report is based on the actual transactions.
If you just want to plot the prices then use the Price Scatterplot
report under Reports -> Assets & Liabilities.

> Thanks in advance
>
> Paolo

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-derek

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