Fw: RE: Printing Reports with a date range

[David T.]

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--- On Tue, 4/7/09, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: Printing Reports with a date range
> To: "Brian" <brianvon at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:10 PM
> Yes, the Gnucash Way on reports is to run them first, and
> then change the options, so that is the only date you're
> supposed to find. 
> 
> The first date in my install uses either "Start
> Date" or "From" (depending on the report);
> the second, "End Date" or "To." You *do*
> have the option to use either exact dates or accounting
> period (relative) dates and must select one or the other
> options by clicking the appropriate radio button, but the
> start/end dates are there for nearly every report.
> 
> Perhaps you can tell us which report you're running? 
> 
> David
> 
> --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Brian <brianvon at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Brian <brianvon at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: RE: Printing Reports with a date range
> > To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 5:57 PM
> > Thanks for your responses. The only date I see is
> after
> > running a report, I
> > can go to options and under the general tab at the
> bottom
> > are two date
> > fields. When I scroll over them a popup says select a
> date
> > to report on. I'm
> > not sure what that means but I've tried setting it
> to
> > the beginning and end
> > of the year and I get the 07 data. There's nothing
> > about a start date or end
> > date. Any ideas?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David T. [mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:14 PM
> > To: Brian; Tommy Trussell
> > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: Printing Reports with a date range
> > 
> > 
> > It doesn't sound like you've set the starting
> date
> > in the Options for the
> > report. I don't recall the default for most
> reports,
> > but check that starting
> > date entry. 
> > 
> > For the actual reports, I don't think the
> Accounting
> > Period has any
> > importance. That is, when you set the report dates,
> that is
> > what the report
> > uses.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Tommy Trussell
> > <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Tommy Trussell
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Printing Reports with a date range
> > > To: "Brian"
> <brianvon at hotmail.com>
> > > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 3:16 PM
> > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Brian
> > > <brianvon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi. I'm trying to print reports for my
> 2008
> > taxes.
> > > Under preferences I've
> > > > selected accounting period as 1/1/08 to
> 12/31/08.
> > > I've been selecting the
> > > > date range under options as a 12/31/08 and
> > I've
> > > tried previous year end.
> > > > Despite this I keep getting 2007 records in
> my
> > > reports. Heeelllp.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What version of GnuCash? What operating system?
> Which
> > > reports have you tried?
> > > 
> > > 
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