Fiscal Year on Reports

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> I shut down GnuCash, backed up a copy
> of /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm, copied your new file on top
> of /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm.
>
> Next, I started GnuCAsh and doubled checked to make sure the accounting
> period was still set to 10/1 through 9/30.  Then I ran an Income
> Statement.  It still defaulted to 1/1/08 through the current date.
>
> Any suggestions?


Hmm. Not sure what to tell you... for me the report options are set to
"Start of financial period" and "End of financial period" by default now.
No matter which file I open with GnuCash, when I run the Income Statement I
see the custom financial year dates. Did you try Derek's suggestion?
Double-checked that /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm is actually different
from your backup? Any other copies of options.scm floating around?

-Charles


>
> --tony
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:07 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> > 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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