Fiscal Year on Reports

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> Thanks, this is great news.
>
> One question: do I need to wait for next point release to get this bug
> fix or is there an easy way to obtain the fix ahead of 2.2.6?
>

You're in luck. For this particular fix, just make a backup of your existing
version of options.scm (search for it) then replace it with this one:

http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/app-utils/options.scm?rev=17295&format=txt

-Charles


>
> Either way is fine.
> Regards,
> Tony
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 14:12 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> > wrote:
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> writes:
> >
> >         > Hi All,
> >         >
> >         > I have set GnuCash to conform to our fiscal year (Edit ->
> >         Preferences ->
> >         > Accounting Period) which runs from 10/1 to 9/30 each year.
> >          After doing
> >         > so I expected reports to default to our fiscal year but they
> >         don't.
> >
> >
> >         Sorry, no, they don't.
> >
> >         > For example if I run an Income Statement report it
> >         automatically uses
> >         > the calendar year rather than my accounting period.  Of
> >         course, I can
> >         > manually change the Income Statement starting and ending
> >         dates.  But I'm
> >         > wondering if there is a way to have my reports automatically
> >         use the
> >         > accounting period by default?
> >
> >
> >         Yeah, that feature was never quite finished.  The reports
> >         don't
> >         use the global setting yet.
> >
> >         > If not, please consider this a low low low priority feature
> >         request.
> >
> >
> >         If it's not already in Bugzilla, please put it there so we
> >         don't
> >         forget.
> >
> > Fix committed as r17295. Appeared to only need a two-line change. I
> > hope it is really that easy (it appears to work). I will update the
> > bug (#542472).
> >
> > -Charles
> >
> >
> >
> >         > Regards,
> >         > Tony
> >
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> >
> >         -derek
> >
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