Report - Line Graph

[MH]

David - thanks for that intro on the theory.  Manuals so often miss 
sharing the methodology.


I think I managed to get what I want.  I edited an 'Assets over time' 
Bar chart, told it to read 6 levels down (that took a bit to find/figure 
out) and selected only 1 account.  Gives me a bar graph, but that is 
close enough.

Now that I have it, is there a way to save it back into the Reports?  Or 
is it supposed to now just 'live' on the left side of my screen as a 
open tab?

I found out how to enlarge the report, but the legend is still on the 
right and the text gets a lot larger.  I there a way to maximize the 
actual graph area and keep some of the fonts/legends a bit more off to 
the side?  (selecting 'day' makes for a nice graph, but there are so 
many bars that it just ends up a black blob.

Marvin

On 10/8/2010 12:59 PM, David T. wrote:
> Marvin--
>
> Welcome to the Gnucash world!
>
> You've delved directly into the area where Gnucash offers its greatest challenges. The reporting system--especially in the current stable release, 2.2.9--has a number of idiosyncrasies that take getting used to, and not a few workarounds. This is apparently going to get much better in the new 2.4 release, which is close to release (I don't have a date for that).
>
> As for your specific questions: there is no particular repository for user-created custom reports. If a custom report gets created and submitted to the developers, it can get added directly to the distributed application. I understand that this is how many of the reports have gotten into Gnucash in the first place.
>
> Finally, I believe that there is a line graph report, and you should take a look at whether it can be tweaked to meet your needs. Many folks have trouble understanding Gnucash's distinctive way of report management: that is, first you run a generic report, and THEN, once it is loaded, you open the options for the report and modify them to meet your needs. I haven't messed around with the line chart reports much, but you may find it possible to do what you want there.
>
> If you *don't* see what you need and have to create your own report from scratch, you will need to dig into the Scheme programming language to build your report.
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> --- On Fri, 10/8/10, MH<marvoutlistmail at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> From: MH<marvoutlistmail at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Report - Line Graph
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 9:36 AM
>> I'm just starting with Gnu Cash
>> reporting.  What I'd like to have is a line graph that
>> shows the account balance over time.  It would be
>> really nice if it could be configured to show multiple
>> accounts with separate overlying lines.
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>> Is there a repository of reports that one can collect from
>> and add?  The program shows custom reports and the
>> manual/wiki talk a bit about it. I'm not a programmer, so
>> I'm wondering where to start.  I tried to find the
>> report files in the GnuCash folder and couldn't find
>> them.  Are they actually in the program itself?
>>
>> Marvin
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