[GNC] Reports indentation

[Christopher Lam]

Hi Nigel

Please feel free to help beta test a new income-statement. It aims to 
replace the current one which has numerous unfixable inconsistencies.

It has no redundant subtotals, and it can compare incomes/expenses 
across periods.

The account indenting is better, and the amount indenting has been 
disabled to allow for multiple data columns; yet subtotal amounts are 
still explicitly clear.

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-June/077745.html


On 20/07/18 01:10, Nigel wrote:
> I have looked for references to the problem via Google, but with no luck.
>
> My problem is with indentation in reports with accounts that have 
> children. I feel that the parent should be indented further than the 
> children, to give the correct hierarchy. That way, the entries in a 
> column are the total of the entries in the column to the left 
> (children.) This makes it a lot easier to read. In a way, it also 
> causes display redundancy, where some values are displayed more than 
> once.
>
> Of course, there may be significant problems in implementing this.
>
> I created a report with accounts that have children and children that 
> have children. Formatted with borders in Excel to help visualise the 
> situation. Sub-totals are switched off because they seem to cause even 
> more "redundancy." Any account with children is a placeholder.
>
> Levels of Subaccounts is 4. This is what we get:
> Revenues
> Income             R0,00
>       Interest Income             R0,00
>       Other Income             R0,00
>       Sales         R0,00
>             Consignment     R0,00
>                   Consignment     R0,00
>             Core Business     R0,00
>                   Biltong     R0,00
>                   Miscellaneous     R0,00
> Total Revenue                 R0,00
>
> This is not right. The sub-total Core-business should not be in the 
> same column as the children Biltong and Miscellaneous.
>
> This is how it should look:
> Revenues
> Income                 R0,00
>       Interest Income             R0,00
>       Other Income             R0,00
>       Sales             R0,00
>             Consignment         R0,00
>                   Consignment     R0,00
>             Core Business         R0,00
>                   Biltong     R0,00
>                   Miscellaneous     R0,00
> Total Revenue                     R0,00
>
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> Reducing Levels of Subaccounts to 3 you get:
> Revenues
> Income             R0,00
>       Interest Income         R0,00
>       Other Income         R0,00
>       Sales         R0,00
>             Consignment     R0,00
>             Core Business     R0,00
> Total Revenue                 R0,00
>
> This is loss of one level of detail, which is correct.
>
> At any time one can look down a column and see only valid entries, not 
> a total followed by what generated the total.
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