Fiscal Year on Reports

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 12:39:41 EDT 2008


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> The new file is definitely in place.  Below you can see my original
> options.scm (now backed up as Desktop/options.scm-).  You can also see
> the new option.scm file on my Desktop and also
> in /usr/share/gnucash/scm.  Both are 56574 bytes.
>
> tonyn at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ ls -l options.scm*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tonyn tonyn 56574 2008-07-11 19:43 options.scm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  56516 2008-07-11 19:44 options.scm-
> tonyn at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56574 2008-07-11
> 19:46 /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm
>
> Perhaps I am not setting the report options properly?
>
> >From Edit -> Preferences -> Accounting Period I am setting the correct
> fiscal year start and end dates.
>
> Then from the Income Statement itself, I am choosing Options -> General
> -> Start Date -> Start of Financial Period
>
> This works, but only for that iteration of the report.  If I close the
> report and reopen it, the new iteration shows a report dated from the
> beginning of the calendar year.
>

I can only guess that your GnuCash is still running the old version somehow.
Is there another copy of options.scm somewhere else that might be getting
used? Does the new version need to get "installed" somewhere else? Did you
make your backup using 'mv'? If so, perhaps there is a symbolic link
somewhere that still points to the old version? Are you running a memorized
report or instead of a fresh one?

If you do a 'diff' on the new version vs. the old, you should see only two
lines changed. I just changed the default value for date options on reports,
so it's a very simple change. I never see the calendar year any more on
reports unless I go into the options and change it after the report has
already run.  :)

-Charles


> I don't see a global place to set report start and end dates.  I would
> expect to see it at Edit -> Preferences -> Report, but here I am only
> able to set the Default Report Currency or set whether or not a report
> opens in a new window.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:55 -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> > 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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