[GNC] About 'parent-account-subtotal' option.

Deva - pobox.deva at outlook.in
Sat Feb 13 23:13:00 EST 2021


Thanks Chris and Adrien.

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Parent account balances ( Account Balance / Subtotal / Do not show)
Parent account sub-totals (Show subtotals / Do not show)
<<<

If the end result is that the options will change to what you described above, it doesn't alter my report layouts, so I have no objections either.

Cheers.


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From: Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
Sent: 13 February 2021 06:47
To: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>; Deva - <pobox.deva at outlook.in>
Cc: gnucash-user at lists gnucash. org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] About 'parent-account-subtotal' option.

To clarify:

The subtotal options are:

Parent account balances ( Account Balance / Subtotal / Do not show)
Parent account sub-totals (Show subtotals / Do not show / Text-book style (experimental))

The first one describes subtotals before an account group -- see [1] below.
Options will cause this line to show either "$0", "$108,000" or blank.

The second one describes subtotals after an account group -- see [2] below.
Options will cause this line to show either "$108,000", or blank (line skipped), "$108,000" with an unusual alignment.

e.g.
Asset $0                           [1]
Asset:Bank $8,000
Asset:House $100,000
Total Asset $108,000        [2]

The proposal would modify saved reports with "Parent account sub-totals" set to "Text-book style (experimental)" to use "Show subtotals", and options limited to:

Parent account balances ( Account Balance / Subtotal / Do not show)
Parent account sub-totals (Show subtotals / Do not show)


I suspect that the number of users adversely affected will be near zero.

Hello Christopher,
I am not sure I understand the impact of this change.
My settings on the Income report are -

Include accounts with zero total balances (unchecked)
Omit zero balance figures (checked)
Parent account balances (Do not show)
Parent account sub-totals (Show sub-totals)

I don't use the Text book style (experimental) option.




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