[GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Mon Jul 27 13:10:12 EDT 2020


Sorry, the report appears to be working correctly for me on MacOS 
(10.15.6) using GnuCash 4.1.

The 1st option should be the only one you need to toggle the zero 
balanced accounts from appearing.

The 2nd option will remove just the zero figure but retain the account 
name if the 1st option is checked.

Let's use an example where 'Cash' has a 0.00 balance,


If you uncheck both options you'll see:

	Cash 0.00

If 1st option is unchecked, second option checked, you'll see:

	Cash

If 1st option is checked, the second option is now irrelevant, and 
you'll see nothing about 'Cash' at all.

Or at least that is the way I think it is supposed to work.

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/27/20 11:01 AM, peterb wrote:
> I've encountered a bit of a Scooby Doo mystery, and I'm hoping someone can
> help me figure it out.
> 
> My Balance Sheet report consistently includes commodity accounts with 0
> balance figures for me, even when I've unchecked "Include accounts with
> zero total balances."  Trying to reproduce this with a brand-new book for
> demo purposes doesn't show this behavior, so I'm left assuming there's
> something about my file that is odd.
> 
> Specifically, there are two options under "Display" for Balance sheet, to
> wit:
> 
> • Include accounts with zero total balances
> • Omit zero balance figures
> 
> I would expect that having the first option UN-checked and the second
> option checked would result in my stock accounts with 0 shares in them
> appearing; sadly, they're all over the report.
> 
> In contrast, the "Balance Sheet using eguile-gnc" report has an option
> (under "Accounts", not "Display" this time) of "Exclude accounts with zero
> total balances".  Checking this option achieves what I'd consider the right
> result - no zero balance values are shown.
> 
> After further experimentation, there seems to be an interaction with the
> "Levels of Subaccounts" control on the Accounts tab of the report options.
> If I increase the levels of subaccounts accordingly, or flatten the list to
> the depth limit, the 0 balance figures don't appear - again, only (so far)
> in this one file.
> 
> So I have two workarounds to the problem (either using the eguile report,
> or adjusting the depth limit/flattening options), but I am still concerned
> that I don't understand why the behavior is happening in the first place.
> 
> My questions are:
> (1) Has anyone else seen this behavior?
> (2) If so, do you understand what's triggering it?



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