Date ranges on General Reports/General Journal?

[Jobjörn Folkesson]

Yes, this I know. The General Ledger report is not as good as the General
Journal for my purpose, however - all transactions are shown at least twice
(one time for each account they're in) and split transactions show as
"Split transaction" rather than information of which accounts are involved
in the split. I want to save a paper copy of the entire year's records (and
give one copy to the auditors), so it won't suffice.

So my original question - why can't you date-limit the General Journal? -
remains. Perhaps a developer could answer.

Regards,
Jobjörn

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, david.carlson.417 at gmail.com <
david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You found a report that I did not know about.  I agree that it is useless,
>  but if you open the General Ledger register and adjust the view as I
> suggested then run the Account Report you get a time interval limited
> report that covers all accounts.  The General Ledger report just below the
> General Journal report allows selection of dates, accounts and several
> other features.
>
>
> David C
>
>
> Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT&T 4G LTE tablet
>
>
> ------ Original message------
>
> *From: *Jobjörn Folkesson
>
> *Date: *Sun, Jan 15, 2017 1:32 PM
>
> *To: *david.carlson.417 at gmail.com;
>
> *Cc: *gnucash-user at gnucash.org;
>
> *Subject:*Re: Date ranges on General Reports/General Journal?
>
>
> Do you mean opening an account view, filtering that, and then opening the
> General Reports report? I don't see why that would work, and upon trying I
> can verify that it does not.
>
> Just to be clear, the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/
> wiki/Using_GnuCash#General_Journal) explicitly says "This report is not
> customizable by date", so I really think you can't customize it by date. I
> am curious as to why you can't do that.
>
> Jobjörn Folkesson
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 7:54 PM, david.carlson.417 at gmail.com <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess I was not clear.  I meant to say to limit the register view to
>> only show the transactions that are of interest before opening the report.
>>
>>
>> David C
>>
>>
>> Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT&T 4G LTE tablet
>>
>>
>> ------ Original message------
>>
>> *From: *Jobjörn Folkesson
>>
>> *Date: *Sun, Jan 15, 2017 10:00 AM
>>
>> *To: *David Carlson;
>>
>> *Cc: *gnucash-user at gnucash.org;
>>
>> *Subject:*Re: Date ranges on General Reports/General Journal?
>>
>>
>> When you've opened the "General Reports" report, "Filter by" isn't
>> available in the View menu?
>>
>> Jobjörn Folkesson
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 1:17 AM, David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> These reports include all transactions in the register.  You can select
>>> View > Filter By > Date > Select Range to define the report date range.
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Jobjörn Folkesson <jobjorn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I'd like a list of all transactions from 2016, and the report "General
>>>> Reports" (GnuCash 2.6.15, Windows) provides exactly what I want - but
>>>> without any way to filter by date, as in all other reports. Why is this?
>>>>
>>>> The report is called "General Journal" here
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#General_Journal and in
>>>> Swedish
>>>> it is called "Transaktionslista" (GnuCash 2.6.12, Ubuntu).
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Jobjörn Folkesson
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