Dialog Box Bug?

[David T.]

Bug 777386 outlines the situation.

Thanks Geert.

—David

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626387>