[GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

[Christopher Lam]

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-October/087700.html

Yes an unfortunate minor regression while fixing a severe bug, because
until now I could not understand why the totals section included budget
equity values.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 01:15, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I haven’t yet delved into my 2020 budget, but certainly, the lack of an
> overall total should be restored as it is critical to the budgeting process.
>
> I consider this a regression of sorts. (in terms of reduced functionality,
> not necessarily, the return of a previously solved bug)
>
> Was this an accident? Oversight? Intentional design?
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jan 2, 2020 w1d2, at 3:43 PM, Greg W <allrightname at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the most recent release this change was made:
> >
> > [gnc-budget-view.c] totals - 5 fundamental types
> > previous showed income/expense/transfers/totals budget totals, of
> uncertain
> > meaning. now shows income/expense/asset/liability/equity budget totals.
> The
> > 5 lines also become sensitive to the global sign-reverse property.
> >
> > That change removed the "total" row from budgets making it very hard to
> > ensure that budgets are balanced or that there are no unallocated funds.
> > Example of the old behavior:
> >
> > Income: 100
> > Expenses: 30
> > Liabilities: 20
> > Assets: 10
> > Total: 40
> >
> > Using that total row I could tell there were 40 units that needed
> allocated
> > somewhere. How can I accomplish this given the recent changes? If I make
> a
> > change and accidentally allocate 1000 to Assets in the new version it
> just
> > updates the assets total row and doesn't otherwise indicate the budget is
> > out of balance.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
>
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