2.6: Changing accounting period does nothing.

[Graham P Davis]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:38:18 -0500
"Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, January 22, 2014 11:19 am, Graham P Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:59:17 +0100
> > Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wednesday 22 January 2014 15:46:36 Graham P Davis wrote:
> >> > I just changed the accounting period via edit - preferences and
> >> > using absolute dates. I was a bit concerned that the only button
> >> > available on the panel was 'close' and found that I was right to
> >> > be so as the change of dates was not saved.
> >> >
> >> > I've bypassed the problem by changing the period within the
> >> > report I was producing. Am I doing something wrong or is this a
> >> > bug? As I only have to change this once per year, I don't recall
> >> > what buttons were available on the preferences panel last year.
> 
> How did you verify that the date changes were not saved?  Did you
> re-open the Preferences file and see the dates did not change?  Or
> did you expect it to change the dates within an already open report,
> which it wont do -- you would need to refresh any reports manually
> after you make the change.
> 

Brief answer is 'both'. 

I changed the accounting period from 2011-12 to 2012-13 a day or two
ago. Since then, I have rebooted the computer. 

This morning, I created a cash-flow report and was surprised to see
that the period was for the year before the one I wanted. I checked the
settings for the report and the start date was set for 'start of
accounting period' and similarly for the end date. I then checked the
accounting period and found the change I'd made previously hadn't
taken; I set the accounting period to 2012-13, closed the panel,
reopened it and the date had reverted to 2011-12. I realised that I'd
have to give up on that so changed the date setting in the report to a
fixed date via the left-hand radio buttons instead of the option
available from the RH radio buttons.

In amongst the above, I refreshed reports and also made new ones a few
times.

@Geert ======
The version of Gnucash is 2.6.0 and was built by openSUSE and is on
their GNOME:Apps repository.

Once I'd installed 2.6.0, I've not used 2.4.13.

As for the trace-file, where would I find that?
       ======


I've tried running from console and only got these messages:
+++++++
Found Finance::Quote version 1.18
java version "1.7.0_45"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.3) (suse-24.9.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)
+++++++

I switched date format from DD/MM/YYYY to DD.MM.YYYY - which took OK -
but the dates still reverted to 2011-12 after changing to 2012-13.

Switching dates from 'absolute' to 'relative' was saved successfully
but no changes to absolute dates could be saved.


I hope some of the above is some use.


-- 
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
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