Alternating the color of cells does not work

[geo909]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015, at 09:36 AM, David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash] wrote:
> On 4/11/2015 10:14 AM, geo909 wrote:
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> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash]
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> >> On 4/10/2015 4:36 PM, geo909 wrote:
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> >>> Hi all,
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> >>> I am not able to set an alternating cell color in the default,
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> >>> plain, or any
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> >>> other stylesheet. I made sure I saved my changes and reloaded.
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> >>> Example screenshot here <http://postimg.org/image/4h72dg809/> .
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> >>> Any ideas why this happens and how I can fix it?
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> >>> Version:
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> >>> $gnucash --version
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> >>> GnuCash 2.6.6
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> >>> This copy was built from rev 132c9e3+ on 2015-04-01.
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> >>> I am using arch linux.
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> >> I think you are confusing the word alternate with the word
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> >> alternating,
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> >>
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> >> and you may be looking in the wrong place for the result. Does this
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> >>
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> >> program release (2.6.6) work differently for you than previous
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> >> releases?
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> >>
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> > I'm pretty new with gnucash, it's the first time I want to play
> > with the
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> > styles. You are probably right, I was thinking an alternating color,
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> > like the alternating grey - soft grey in the accounts tab, or the
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> > green-yellowish green for the ledgers.
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> >
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> > In http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/change-style.html
> > it
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> > says "Alternate Table Cell Color: Opens the color picker to
> > choose a new
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> > color for alternate table rows." I thought this is what it means.
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> >
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> >> While I do not know the program well enough to tell you
> >> exactly what
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> >>
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> >> that alternate color in tables setting actually does in the
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> >> Edit > Style
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> >> Sheets menu, I too do not see any effect in the Budget Report
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> >> as viewed
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> >>
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> >> in the program in Windows 7. I will conjecture that it may apply to
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> >>
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> >> reports only when they are exported and viewed in a web
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> >> browser, but the
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> >>
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> >> budget report may not even be using a table structure to
> >> display it's
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> >>
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> >> data. Also, alternate color may apply to all table cells to
> >> make them
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> >>
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> >> visible against a white background.
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> >>
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> > I played a bit with the backgrounds, but no matter the background
> > color,
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> > the alternate row color settings does not affect anything, still. It
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> > doesn't make any difference either, when exported to html. Also,
> > I tried
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> > all sorts of reports, and not only the budget report, and it
> > never makes
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> > a difference. Could that be a bug?
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> >> I am using GnuCash 2 6 6 in Windows 7.
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> >> David C
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> geo909,
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> You definitely did your research!
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> Did you try farleykj's suggestion of looking at portfolio reports?
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> It is looking like many reports that could have used the table
> structure
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> did not, for whatever reason.
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Ah no, I didn't see faleykj's suggestion. I get it now about using
different structures. I tried the portfolio reports but I have no
appropriate accounts to be displayed so they were empty. In any case, I
understand what was the issue. Thanks!


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