"The selected accounts contain no data/transactions" but they do...

[Diego]

Thanks Derek for the response.

Is there any other report I can use to look at expenses from these 
expense-under-income accounts in a given year and as monthly averages?

Thanks again!

Diego

On 04/17/2015 08:53 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Diego <eldieguisimo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to get the "Expense Piechart" report for all expenses in
>> the following account structure (in parenthesis is the type of
>> account) for fundraising events for a non-profit:
>>
>> Events (income)
>>        Event1  (income)
>>              Income  (income)
>>              Expenses  (expense)
>>        Event2 (income)
>>              Income (income)
>>              Expenses (expense)
>>
>> When I try to run the report it says:
>>
>> "No data
>> The selected accounts contain no data/transactions (or only zeroes) for
>> the selected time period "
>>
>> According to the documentation this should work. Doesn't it? I'm
>> missing something?
>>
>> If I change "Events" to be of type "Expense" (instead of "Income"), it
>> does generate the report correctly.
> The issue is that the "Expense Piechart" specifically looks for Expense
> accounts, and it expects the full hierarchy to be of type Expense.  So
> when your top-level account (Events) is of type "Income", the report
> stops and says to itself "Oh, this is an Income account; I'll stop
> looking below here".
>
>> I still need to keep Events, Event1, and Event2 as income accounts
>> (for other reports, and the "signs" of numbers in different contexts).
>>
>> I'm running Gnucash 2.6.6.
>>
>> I will appreciate any help.
> Unfortunately for this report you'll need to change the account types.
> Either that or you'll need to fix the report.
>
>> Thank you,
>> Diego
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> -derek
>