[GNC] GC 3.1 Mac OS X 10.13.4 High Sierra Report issue

[Adrien Monteleone]

David,

I haven’t noticed this case in particular but do see some other unique 3.1 report problems. (filed a bug on one a couple of days ago) But since you mentioned other approaches, does not turning on the Total (Period) column on the Accounts tab not give you the info you’re looking for? I have this turned on and since totals roll-up to the parent, it shows me what I would expect to see if I ran such a report as you describe.

I just played with the Transaction Report and I also can’t get the individual sub-accounts to not display. But that might be intended. If I only select the parent, and run a *Transaction* report, I get nothing, because well, there are no transactions in it. I have to select the child accounts that hold the actual transactions. And that is what is being subtotaled. The “Totals” option appears to only sum all of the individual accounts. (or not) I don’t think it should mean to ONLY display that total. If it used to function that way, I should think it was a bug that has now been fixed.

I do see the option ‘Show subtotals only (hide transactional data)’ in the sorting tab (shouldn’t this belong in ‘display’?) but I don’t see an option to hide the per-account sub-totals.

Regards,
Adrien

> Hello,
> 
> Before I submit a bug report, I’d like to see whether there has been some change to the reports system that causes the degradation I am seeing, and if there is a different way to achieve my same goal.
> 
> I have a custom report that is set to display a single figure for YTD totals for a subset of my income accounts (dividends). This is a simple transaction report that has the Income:Dividend accounts selected, is set to cover the current accounting period, and is supposed to display only “Totals”. 
> 
> In general, the result is as follows:
> 
> YTD Dividends
> From 01/01/2018 to 05/02/2018
> ————
> Grand Total $9,999.00
> 
> In the past, this report would present the current YTD dividend total in a single figure in a compact area (I use it on a dashboard multicolumn display). With 3.1, however, I get all the accounts listed, and no figures anywhere (not for individual accounts, and not for a grand total). Furthermore, if I try to load the saved report separately, I get a generic “Report Error” message. If I close out GC 3.1 without saving and reload the file in 2.6.19, the report functions as expected.
> 
> Finally, if I try to recreate the report from scratch, I cannot get the report to format as I prefer—with no account information and a single YTD amount. I can only seem to get the total if I display all the transaction data, which defeats the purpose of my report showing me at a glance how much dividend income I have accumulated YTD.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem and found a remedy?
> 
> While I am at it, I note that the report setting to reverse account signs on the transaction report doesn’t seem to affect the total amount any more—it worked correctly in 2.6.19. ISTR that others have noted this—or does that need to get a bug as well?
> 
> Cheers,
> David T.