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

[Diego]

Thanks Derek.

I will give it a try/ I guess I will first have to familiarize myself 
with Eguile.

Diego

On 04/20/2015 09:34 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Diego <eldieguisimo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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
> Well, you could try the P&L report, but that wont give you monthly
> averages.  I suppose you could run the P&L report per month?  You could
> try the transaction report.  Or you could modify the Expense Piechart"
> report to not ignore Income Placeholder accounts.
>
> Such a patch would be gladly accepted.
>
> -derek
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>