Budgets: showing total-to-date in budget period, and previous month totals only

[Saša Janiška]

Phil Longstaff <phil.longstaff at gmail.com> writes:

Hello Phil,

> I have attached a report which does this.
>
> I have attached ytd-budget.scm. I have this file in
> c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\reports. I then add this line to
> c:\Users\phill\.gnucash\config.user:
>
>     (load "c:\\Users\\phill\\.gnucash\\reports\\ytd-budget.scm")

I took your report from here:

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-March/075748.html

and put it into ~/.gnucash on my Linux machine.

Moreover, I've the following line:

(load (gnc-build-dotgnucash-path "ytd-budget.scm"))

in my ~/.gnucash/config.user

and the report is not visible nor I get anything in the terminal despite
launching Gnu cash with:

$ gnucash --debug --log gnc.scm=debug

Any hint?

Let me say that I have several years of data in Gnucash (since Nov 2010,
but recently moved to (h)ledger due to Budgeting/ Forecasting features
(https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Budgeting%20and%20forecasting)
- there is '--cumulative' switch for budgets and I believe that your
report does provide same/simialčr feature to do envelope budgeting.

Moreover, entering data, recurring transactions, reconciling etc. are
all quicker and/or more convenient in GC that with #plaintextaccounting
apps, so I'm eager to go back to GC, if possible.


Sincerely,
Gour

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