No (chart) report on Ubuntu

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Philip,

I don't think this is related to the issue Marcin reports. So I have changed 
the title to make it a separate topic.

I don't find the version of gnucash you are using now (or which one you used 
before and didn't generate a report).

Perhaps an obvious question first: have you verified you do have expenses in 
your book ? If you go to your chart of accounts and and open one of your 
expense accounts, does it show entries ?

I presume with "no files selected" you mean: 
No data
The selected accounts contain no data/transactions (or only zeroes) for the 
selected time period

There are  two aspects in this message:
- either you didn't select an account which holds expenses regardless of what 
you have tried already. If you verified you do have expenses, try selecting 
one single expense account in the report options. One for which you are sure 
it holds expenses.
- or the report is configured for a periode in which you didn't have expenses. 
Check out the information in the general tab of the report options to find for 
which period the report is searching for expenses. By default it will check 
the current "Accounting Period". This is something that is configured in the 
general gnucash preferences under Edit->Preferences. Check there also that the 
Accounting period is configured to a period for which you have entered 
expenses.

Regards,

Geert

Op maandag 30 januari 2017 15:46:16 CET schreef Philip Hawkins:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> I am using the Linux GNUcash on Ubuntu.  I have loaded nearly two years of
> data into the system, but I haven't been able to get a single report out of
> it.  In particular I wanted an expenses pie chart, but it tells me no files
> are selected.  I have tried to select files (let me count the ways) -
> including "select all" - but I still get the same result, 'no files
> selected'.
> 
> I did get an upgrade to GNUash recently which I downloaded, though I am not
> sure it actually upgraded the program.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Tot siens,
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Philip Hawkins
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> 
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> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 30 december 2016 13:54:54 CET schreef marcin:
> > > Customised report charts do not load / display or crash. Had to
> > 
> > downgrade to
> > 
> > > 2.6.14.
> > 
> > Hi Marcin,
> > 
> > I didn't see any response so far on this issue. With "customized report
> > charts" do you mean "customized" in the sense of "I copied an existing
> > report
> > scheme file and made adjustments in effect creating a different report"
> > rather
> > than "I used the gnucash graphical interface to save a custom set of
> > report
> > preferences" ?
> > 
> > There was an under the hood change to the report settings for charts code
> > between 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. It was supposed to not affect anyone, but it
> > looks
> > as if we missed something. So I'd like to find out what that is.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Geert
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