Custom Reports

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:39:55 +0200
Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

>>  [...] You ... have stumbled on the single biggest weakness
>> in the reporting system, if not of gnucash itself.  [...]
>Inf fact this has been improved in the latest unstable series and the 
>improvements will be in the upcoming 2.4 release.
>
>The changes include a dialog box to manage your custom reports. That
>is you can delete them via this dialog. Combined with the existing
>functionality of creating custom reports, you will have to tools to:
>* create a custom report and save it for future use
>* modify the settings of a custom report/save it as a new report
>* delete the old custom report
>
>In addition, the issue of duplicate names in the menus has been
>resolved as well.
>
>I won't say this is the perfect setup, but at least an important
>improvement already.


The Transaction Report is already a very useful tool. I have recently
created a few useful reports which help me monitor my daily activities.
Above improvements will be a huge step forward and I look forward to
getting my mits on 2.4!

I agree with the previous poster that reporting is the single-most
important feature of GnuCash - why else put all those data in? 

In my view only a few more steps will get you damned close to
perfection:
- ability to refine current search (and add to/delete from)
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361285)
- enhance sorting/grouping in Transaction Report
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626385)


You can do the most complex searches already but what a bummer when you
have clicked together a dozen search criteria and then realize you made
a mistake and have to start all over again!

I live in GnuCash (well, and in Firefox). It starts up at 9:00 and goes
down at midnight. Thank you for developing GnuCash.

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Best Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz