Assets over time

[Paolo Di Giacomo]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>  -derek
>

Thanks, I tried the Price Scatterplot but I did not spot the "Price"
tab functionality <embarrassed>.
What do I have to do if I want to save the plot settings for a later
use (the icon "Add Report" is grayed out)?

Ciao

Paolo