[GNC] "Account Report" randomly chooses one of the splits

David Zhang gnucash-user at icydog.net
Fri Aug 9 01:53:12 EDT 2019


Hi,

I'm wondering if I'm misunderstanding how to use GnuCash or if maybe I'm 
doing something wrong. I would like to get a sum of the transaction 
amounts in a search result. For example, I'd like to see how much I've 
spent on Amazon in the last year. However, when calculating the total, 
GnuCash seems to arbitrarily choose one of the splits, so it always 
undercounts.

It's easiest to see this with "Account Report - Single Transaction." Set 
up a simple transaction with a split, for example a $11 debit from a 
bank account to two expense categories, like $10 on food and $1 on sales 
tax. The "Account Report - Single Transaction." will now show this 
transaction with the split expanded, but the "Total Debits" shows up as 
either $1 or $10, not the expected $11. The same occurs when "Account 
Report" is run like this on many transactions like a search result.

I'm using GnuCash 3.6 (2019-06-29) via Fedora RPMs. Am I doing it wrong? 
Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,
David


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