[GNC] Issues with Balance Sheet report in 4.2

Christopher Lam christopher.lck at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 23:21:15 EDT 2020


The old venerable balance sheet (and many "classic" reports) are not
exactly well behaved when a subset of accounts, especially of varying
levels, is selected for reporting. The experimental and eguile reports may
behave better. Unless someone steps up and decodes the classic reports,
this is likely to remain unresolved for a long time.

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 9:44 am David Carlson, <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So the fundamental issue seems to be that the report is not showing the
> full account tree above the accounts that contain the desired data in the
> same tree structure that you see in the Chart of Accounts.
>
> Is this the first time to use this report for this purpose, or is it a case
> that has changed from previous behavior, say in GnuCash release 3.x or
> earlier?
>
> You mentioned that if you select all accounts, the report is correct, but
> when you try to omit unnecessary lines, some necessary lines disappear and
> others seem to change level.
>
> A brute force work-around might consist of producing a complete report and
> using a spreadsheet to delete unnecessary lines.
>
> Also, as Frank asked in the previous email, did you select the Owner
> accounts when selecting accounts?  Also, are those accounts possibly marked
> hidden or placeholder?
>
> All of these questions are partly attempts to eliminate the possibility
> that there truly is a bug in the report design, or, conversely, to identify
> where a bug might lie.
>
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> David Carlson
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