Budget report with a different format

[Daniel Trezub]

Phil, I love the idea!
But... how do I install/use it?
I am using GC 2.2.9 in a Ubuntu 10.04

Thanks!
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Daniel Trezub
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On 27 November 2010 17:08, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:

> I have been playing around with the budget report to provide the info I
> want in the format I want.  For now, I've just called it "PSL
> Budget" (my initials).  I don't know what bugs there might be.
>
> The format.  There are 3 sets of columns.  Each set of columns can have
> budget/actual/diff values.  The three sets of columns are (1) current
> month (2) all months up to and including this one (3) full year.  This
> allows me to see budget room (or over-budget) for the month, accumulated
> budget room (or over-budget) from past months and budget room (or
> over-budget for the year).
>
> In the general tab of the report options, you can select which month is
> the current one.  I haven't tied this in to the date yet.
>
> I don't know what bugs there are or if this will make it into 2.4.0.
> I'm interested in any feedback.
>
> For any developers who might want to tweak this or create budget reports
> which combine columns: Under the surface, I've done some work in how
> budget columns are specified, so that a column set spec is given to the
> budget report engine.  Look at lines 500/501.  This is where the column
> sets are specified.  The spec is a list.  If a list item is a number,
> the column set is the budget/actual/diff for that period.  If the list
> item is a list of numbers, the column set is the sum of
> budget/actual/diff for those periods.  Thus, (10 (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 10) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)) specifies first set = november, 2nd set
> = jan-nov, 3rd set = whole year (indexes start at 0).  You could have
> ((0 1 2) (3 4 5) (6 7 8) (9 10 11)) for 4 sets, each one being a
> quarter.  Eventually, I'd like to see the report engines take a row
> specification (what accounts and how to subtotal/total them) and a
> column spec (what columns and how to subtotal/total them), both of which
> are user-definable.
>
> Phil
>
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