How are the budget totals calculated

[me at bramschoenmakers.nl]

On 2015-03-02 01:30, John Haiducek wrote:

Hi,

> When I go to edit the budget, there are a row of totals for "Income,"
> "Expenses," "Transfers," and "Total" at the bottom of the screen. Can
> someone explain how they are calculated? The behavior seems erratic.
>
> Specifically, "Income" and "Transfers" get populated, but only after
> putting seemingly magic combinations of values in just the right
> sub-accounts under "Income." Similarly, "Expenses" never shows 
> anything
> but zeros for my main gnucash file, but with some finagling I managed 
> to
> get something to show up under "Expenses" after starting a new 
> gnucash
> XML file for testing purposes. Shouldn't these fields just show the
> totals of their respective categories? Is this a bug or am I 
> completely
> misunderstanding what the fields are for?

It could be the case that you manually edited these totals, in that 
case they override the calculated sum of the subaccounts. When you erase 
these values, the calculated totals should appear.

Regards,

Bram