[GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

[David T.]

Chris,

I do note one issue with the new transaction report: it doesn’t seem to utilize the Sign Reverses option—at least, not that I can see.

Cheers,
David 

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:29 PM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Thank you for the lead. 
> 
> It turns out that I can get almost exactly the same result using the hide transactional data option, when I combine it with "Amount - Single”. The only difference is that the Account name is not presented before the total line. I consider that to be an improvement, actually.
> 
> Bug avoided.
> 
> David
> 
>> On Jan 16, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> There's "Sorting / Show subtotals only (hide transactional data)"
>> 
>> You may be right that 'Display / Amount' = none is not completely handled as before.
>> 
>> Please file a bug, and screenshot a sample report, anonymised; please enable 'General / Add options summary' to display options used.
>> 
>> Also, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795064
>> 
>> Thank you for finding these edge cases.
>> 
>> C
>> 
>> 
>> On 16/1/19 8:09 pm, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Long time user; MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.4. I have a saved report I use around this time of year (I call it “W-2 - David”) that shows me the total amounts assigned to a subset of my expense accounts (i.e., my tax expense accounts).
>>> 
>>> The purpose of this report is to allow me to compare my GnuCash numbers to the numbers issued to me by my employer. In GnuCash 2.6.19, this report looks something like this:
>>> 
>>> ———————————————————————
>>> 
>>> From 01/01/2018 To 12/31/2018
>>> 
>>> Fed
>>> Total For Fed	$XXXXX.XX
>>> Medicare
>>> Total For Medicare	$XXXXX.XX
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Total For Soc Sec	$XXXXX.XX
>>> State
>>> Total For State	$XXXXX.XX
>>> Grand Total	$XXXXX.XX
>>> 
>>> ———————————————————————
>>> 
>>> As I said, this report is intended to match my employer’s reporting, so I can compare the two.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> However, when I run the *SAME REPORT* in GnuCash 3.4, I get unsatisfactory changes to the results. My LITERAL results are:
>>> 
>>> ———————————————————————
>>> 
>>> From 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018
>>> 
>>> Account
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Fed
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Medicare
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> Soc Sec
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> State
>>> ———————————————————————
>>> 
>>> Now, there are two significant problems here: first, every transaction for the year gets a line, and second, THERE ARE NO AMOUNTS. I have tinkered with every setting I can find on the report options, but I cannot find the setting that will display ONLY THE TOTALS. It would appear that in a recent update to this report, the “NONE” option on line amounts has been removed.
>>> 
>>> Unless someone can point me to the obvious place where I missed this setting, I believe this is a regression in the report. I ought to be able to display a report that includes totals only.
>>> 
>>> David T.
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