can I get info on quanties from bill splits?

[Shane Litherland]

Hi Derek,

Hmm, thanks for some hints on what to look at for tweaking. Note I am
not adept with the languages/commands etc in the reports but I've looked
at some from time-to-time and might be able to pick up enough to patch
something together. It won't be an overnight project though. If I do
succeed I'll share for sure. It could look a bit elementary though...

thanks again,
shane.


On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shane Litherland <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I decided to enter fuel purchases (using Bill splits) as
> > 'quantity'=litres and 'unit price'=cents/litre.
> > previously I'd just put in unit=1 and total price.
> >
> > I'd hoped to be able to report on the number of litres purchased in a
> > given time (e.g. for fuel tax accounting).
> >
> > The detail that posts to A/P and onwards to expense/tax accounts though,
> > seems only to be the total of each split (I don't accumulate splits).
> > The quantity/units info seems only to be visible in the individual
> > bills. Which means I have to look up each bill and note down the litres
> > e.g. in a spreadsheet, in order to tally up litres for a period.
> >
> > Have I missed something basic here? Is there a way to 'see' the quantity
> > info e.g. as part of a report on the fuel expense account? or as a field
> > in the ledger of that account? My fiddling around with reports to date
> > has not revealed an answer.
> >
> > The info has to be there somewhere for me to see it in individual
> > bills... I just want to add it up... oh GNUcash why do you torment me
> > so, with your carrot just out of reach... ;-}
> 
> There are no current reports to do what you want.  But one could write
> something based on a combination of the invoice report and aging report
> to iterate over all the invoices to accumulate your information.
> 
> Patches (and home grown reports) always welcome.
> 
> > -shane
> 
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> -derek
>