[GNC] Error with Asset Chart report

[Adrien Monteleone]

Still using 4.1 here (on MacOS), but sorry to say, I can't repeat the 
error. The Asset Chart works for me just fine with any accounts selected 
(all Assets are by default) and with any level selected.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/5/20 12:10 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am on Windows 10, using Version: 4.2
> Build ID: git 4.2-213-g562b4be22+(2020-11-21)
> 
> Back in June 2019 
> (https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-June/085636.html), I 
> reported a problem with an odd error in a saved report. After some back 
> and forth, I don't believe that any resolution occurred, and I have 
> re-encountered the error.
> 
> This time, I am using the stock Asset Chart report, and again I 
> encounter the nonsensical error repeatedly:
> 
> "This report was saved using a later version of GnuCash. One of the 
> newer multichoice options '7' is not available, fallback to the option 
> '2'."
> 
> Testing reveals that this error is referring to the fact that I am 
> selecting the "Show Accounts until level" to use the provided value of 
> '6' (which is the seventh option in the list, which includes All and 
> 1-6). It pops up numerous times when I run the report, presumably 
> because it iterates through the accounts and barfs each time it gets to 
> a sixth-level account.
> 
> This error is nonsensical because:
> 
> 1) I am invoking the report from the Report menu for the first time in 
> THIS version of GnuCash; there are no saved versions of the report
> 
> 2) There are no newer versions of GnuCash that I have run on my machine, 
> and
> 
> 2) I am SELECTING THE VALUE THAT IS PROVIDED IN THE REPORT OPTIONS.
> 
> This error can easily be replicated; just open the base GnuCash Asset 
> Chart (Report->Assets & Liabilities->Asset Chart), select some accounts, 
> and choose '6' in the "Show Accounts until level" drop down. The error 
> will then trigger.
> 
> If there is a simple hack I can apply to remove this error, I'd 
> appreciate knowing it. As it stands, the result is annoying, and the 
> fact that it is embedded in the GnuCash-supplied report is problematic.
> 
> David T.