transaction report error

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 13, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Miss Keating <MissKeating at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I posted a more detailed report, #749602, on Bugzilla, back on 19 May, complete with illustrative screenshots. It has not drawn so much as a comment, so either it has been overlooked, or the matter is not of interest.
> 
> Using GC 2.6.5 on Win 7/64, the problem is:  When a transaction report has 2 or more entries made on the same date, usually (not always) the lines of the report for that single date are presented in an improper order, rendering the running balances invalid. Once beyond the troubled area, the balances are correct again.
> 
> We have one such date with three transactions, all of which have (cheque) numbers. Those numbers are listed in descending order, unlike the dates, which are ascending, and which appear to be the primary sort control. We would expect that the cheque number would be the secondary sort, and it doesn't appear to be anything else (not alphabetic by description, nor by amount).
> 
> I don't see that there are any controls available that would have allowed me to inadvertently distort these reports in this manner.
> 
> Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
> 
> I have looked through the fixes listed for 2.6.6 vs 2.6.5, and haven't seen anything pertinent.

You didn’t look very hard for controls.

Click the “Options” button in the report’s toolbar, select the Sorting tab, and set the Primary Key to “Register Order”.

Regards,
John Ralls