View pie chart of an account under Liability.

[Manfred Usselmann]

On Mon, 2 May 2011 17:48:38 -0700 (PDT)
"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> --- On Mon, 5/2/11, Lovius <gnucash at lovius.eu> wrote:
> 
> > From: Lovius <gnucash at lovius.eu>
> > Subject: View pie chart of an account under Liability.
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 2:02 AM
> > I have a credit card account under
> > Liabilities and would like to create a pie chart to show
> > what accounts the money has been used for or the accounts
> > that have been charged by the credit card account?
> > But don't figure out how to do it, maybe I miss part of the
> > conceptive part !
> > Anyone got any ideas it would be great.

> I don't see a reply yet.
> 
> I have not used the pie chart report, and I am not at my machine to
> test it, so I am flying just a little blind here.
> 
> I'll assume that creating the pie chart using the single Liability
> account does not give you a listing arranged by the destination
> account, so...
> 
> I am not sure whether the pie chart reports include it, but the
> Filter By Account feature might do what you want. Assuming that it's
> on the accounts tab, you would open the options for your pie chart
> report, click on the accounts tab, select all the various accounts as
> the source for your pie chart, and then select the Liability account
> in the Filter By box below. 

The bar and pie chart reports don't have that filter functionality.
This would be nice though, but for now only the transaction report
allows such kind of filtering as part of the account selection.

Manfred





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Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de>