[GNC] Fw: Upcoming report deprecation

Matthew Forbis matthewdavidforbis1982 at yahoo.com
Sun May 19 14:55:45 EDT 2019


Hi Chris,

On my system, I have about 150-200 Asset and Liability accounts, going back to 2010.  One currency (USD), but about 50 unique commodities.  I am testing on version 3.5 on Windows 10.  The default Net Worth Linechart took 31 seconds to load (This is the accounting period by month with a Weighted Average as the price source [When using nearest in time it's faster still, but trying to compare fairly], and all accounts).  Average balance took 14:30 to load the exact same options.

Thanks,
Matt




On Saturday, May 18, 2019, 8:15:54 PM CDT, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote: 





These benchmarks are always useful. Would you mind describing characteristics of your books? e.g. number of accounts, number of currencies/commodities, approx no.transactions etc? I'm sure 3.5 average-balance should be faster than prior versions.

This may be moot if average-balance will be hidden soon, but IMHO the networth linechart taking 1 minute is still an interesting issue and I'd be keen to know why.


On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 18:33, Matthew Forbis via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> Sending to list from correct email address.
>   The Average Balance report would seem to have merit in my mind, such as tracking a portfolio over time, but I decided to test it to see what it's capable of.  In my testing, I found it can be rmostly eplicated by using the Net Worth linechart graph (most significant difference is you can't show only the assets line, and it's a line chart instead of a bar chart).  The Average Balance report has the downside of taking about 15-20 minutes to run and generate the initial report versus the minute or so for the Net Worth linechart graphic.  So, while I think the average balance report has it's uses, I don't think it's a great report to use.  If it were to be improved, I don't know if I would relegate it to the extra menu, or merge it entirely with the Net Worth line charts.
> 
> Thanks,Matt
> 
>     On Saturday, May 18, 2019, 7:21:17 AM CDT, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:  
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773198
> This bug proposes to remove a number of reports from the reports menu on the 
> assumption these reports are primarily demo's of what can be achieved in 
> gnucash, but have limited actual value. This is about the following reports:
> 
> Average Balance
> Expenses vs. Day of Week
> Income vs. Day of Week
> Sample Report with Examples
> 
> Instead of completely removing them I plan to move them to a separate 
> "Examples" sub menu (the former "Sample & Custom" menu) and hide this menu by 
> default. It could be made visible by running gnucash with the '--extra' 
> command line switch.
> 
> If you are actively using any of these reports please let us know which ones 
> and also how these reports benefit you in practice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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