General ledger presentation bug

[Michael Hendry]

On 25 Jun 2013, at 16:15, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/25/2013 9:13 AM, jcard21 xxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Michael Hendry
>> <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There is no Reports > General Journal option on my Mac version.
>> My mistake; I meant:
>> 
>> Reports > Assets & Liabilities > General Journal
>> 
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> The problem with that report is that it defaults to include every
> transaction in the file, which takes forever to generate for many of
> us.  Today  the options window for that report is blank on my machine so
> I cannot see if it is possible to set a short time window, but if I
> recall, that is not a choice.
> 
> The only way I have found to see a report of splits for a limited number
> of transactions is the report that seems to be failing for Michael on
> his Mac.

I'm using version 2.4.11 on my iMac, with Mac OS X 10.8.4).

I've downloaded later versions (2.4.12 and 2.5.0) but got an error message when I tried to install them, and didn't take it any further.

The report isn't failing for me - at least, I can get a General Ledger report which gives details of the splits by opening the General Ledger...

(Tools > General Ledger)

…selecting the date range (say 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013)…

(View > Filter By - Select Range)

…and choosing the Sort Order, by date…

(View > Sort By - Date).

I think this is what the OP wanted in the way of a report.

jcard21's suggestion of Reports > Assets & Liabilities > General Journal doesn't allow me to set up the range of dates, so everything is printed.

Incidentally, in my system each of these reports has an odd fault in that some rows of cells have bolder print than others for no apparent reason.

Michael


> I think that there may have been some reports that worked in releases
> older than 2.4.13, but I am not ready to search old releases.
> 
> David C
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