Dialog Box Bug?

[Geert Janssens]

Op maandag 16 januari 2017 09:42:47 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-user:
> In looking at the settings for a Transaction Report, I am reminded of some
> input oddities on the sorting tab of the settings. The tab includes
> selection drop boxes for Primary Key, Primary Subtotal for Date Key,
> Secondary Key, and Secondary Subtotal for Date Key. These controls behave
> rather strangely for me. If I change the value in either of the Primary or
> Secondary Key entries, the drop box becomes “locked” to this value, and I
> can only change it again by closing the report and starting again.
> Furthermore, if the associated Subtotal box becomes locked (by selecting a
> non-date sort option), this option remains locked, even if the sort is
> later changed to a date sort.
> 
> Is this a bug I should report?

Hi David,

I can't reproduce this on my Fedora machine with the development version of gnucash.

Feel free to file a bug however so this can be tracked.

> 
> While I am at it, I will mention that it would be nice if the limitation on
> subtotaling could be removed, and users allowed to subtotal by other data
> elements in the transaction. Users often request a subtotal by description.

I saw a similar enhancement request [1] to add subtotalling per day. Christian Stimming noted 
on this bug "a good proposal but not completely trivial". Making it even more generic is 
presumably "even less trivial". But I haven't studied the code involved.

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626387