[GNC] Fwd: Restricting expense report to single checking account

[Christopher Lam]

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From: Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 07:28
Subject: Re: [GNC] Restricting expense report to single checking account
To: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>


On 2/4/19 5:12 PM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> I think only the Transaction Report will offer this flexibility.
> Account/Accounts - Bank account
> Account/Filter Type - "include"
> Account/Filter By.. expense accounts.
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 05:35, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com
> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wish to make an expense report (pie chart, bar chart, not important
>     which) to track spending over the past two years, but restrict the
>     content to expenses paid out of a single checking account.  I make
>     selections that seem appropriate to this task in the dialog, but I can
>     see through the output that my intentions with regard to the single
>     account are not being followed.  I can see that certain expenses which
>     are entirely paid out of another checking account are included in my
>     totals.
>
>     Am I doing something wrong, and if so, how can I get the output I'm
>     looking for?
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Thanks, that works!  In fact, it also works in reverse:

Account/Accounts - all expense accounts
Account/Filter Type - "include"
Account/Filter By.. desired checking account.
Then do subtotals only.

It would be nice if this filtering mechanism could be extended to the
graphs.