RES: Account Page

[David Carlson]

On 1/19/2012 1:44 PM, David T. wrote:
> When Yawar originally posted the question on 1/16 that was posed to him directly, it read:
> 
> "On the main Account Page can you change or filter the totals to a year? If I want to see only the current year totals, or look at last year totals."
> 
> THAT was what I meant by the OP's request.
> 
> So, yes, OP wanted current year information. Andre's post (which you are quoting) was a subsequent entry in the thread.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: Andre Mateus Gava <amgava at hotmail.com>; 'Yawar Amin' <yawar.amin at gmail.com>; 'Robert M Lynch' <rbmagic at bellsouth.net>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: RES: Account Page
>  
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> But this is exactly what OP didn't want. He wanted amounts for a given
>> period--not the current total. I'm not at my machine right now, or I'd check
>> the options to see what they are. A few years back someone said the "Balance
>> (Period)" column would show account balances for a time period, although I
>> cannot verify the truth of that right now.
> 
> Really?  Where did you read this into the original message?  All he
> asked was:
> 
>>> It’s possible add the column named Actual which permit view today’s
>>> amounts stead (or also) the Total column.
> 
> Where do you get from "today's amounts" to "Period"?
> 
>> yes, this column is called "Present", and gives you the balance as of
>> "today".  Just click on the arrow on the right side of the columns and
>> then select Present to add it to your column view.
> 
> -derek
> 

The 'Balance (Period)' column that David T referred to is still
available, and it appears that it uses the default accounting period.
That would work nicely with income and expense accounts.

David C
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