Report - Line Graph

[David T.]

Many folks keep the report open. If you add a new name to the report, you can then click the Add Report button, and it will be saved and displayed in the Custom Reports menu the next time you fire up the program.

--- On Fri, 10/8/10, MH <marvoutlistmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: MH <marvoutlistmail at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Report - Line Graph
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 11:55 AM
> 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:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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