[GNC] Report Options was hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

David H hellvee at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 00:43:43 EST 2020


Liz did say "in my youth" i.e. going back a few years :-)

Cheers David H.


On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 15:40, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Curious...
>
> Where are you right-clicking to get Options?
>
> I tried on the tab - that just gives me a list of all tabs.
>
> I tried on the menu entry, that runs the report sans options, same as
> left-click.
>
> I tried on a blank part of an existing report and got a menu with, “back,
> forward, stop, reload” but no ‘options’.
>
> What did I miss?
>
> The only two methods I know of to get to report options are via the Edit
> menu or the toolbar button, neither of which are obvious save the Edit menu
> is more so, because it is labeled “Report Options” while the toolbar button
> just says ‘Options’. (but why a user would ‘intuitively’ think to look in
> the Edit menu is still a mystery to me)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 10:08 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 13:59:25 -0800
> > "Stephen M. Butler" <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Thinking back to when I was a new, it wasn't obvious that the Options
> >> menu entry was there on the report.  The report ran and either was
> >> what I wanted or wasn't with little clue how to change it.
> >
> > In my youth (with Gnucash) the options menu was reached with a right
> > click on the report.
> > It too me ages to find the spanner on the toolbar when that right click
> > was superseded.
> >
> > So as Gnucash continues and grows, we look at different ways of doing
> > things. We can improve as we go.
> >
> > Liz
>
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