[GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

[Peter S. Shenkin]

Christopher, thank you for confirming that there is no way to do this.

But then, where does Michael's comment come from, to the effect that

'One of the things you get to choose is how you see "subtotals" ----- none,
before, after, or both.'


???

Is Michael perhaps using an in-development version?

-P.



On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:18 AM Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals twice:
> once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end?
>
> Because you'd selected Subtotal on both options as you described. This is
> a long-standing wart/bug because it's nonsensical to allow subtotals to be
> shown both before and after each account+subaccounts. And it's impossible
> to fix this behaviour without angering many long term users. The "next-gen"
> balance sheet is in the experimental reports menu; the latter will never
> show subtotals twice.
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, 11:04 pm Peter S. Shenkin, <shenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Please tell me where this option is.
>>
>> I already said that I didn't see an option for this. I looked before
>> posting and just looked again. I don't see anything like what you
>> mentioned. I believe I have been through all the Options and in fact I got
>> as far as I did by specifying several. For example, I see the following
>> options in Display that pertain to the account balances:
>>
>>    - Parent account balances
>>       - Subtotal (I have this selected)
>>       - Account Balance
>>       - Do not show
>>    - Parent account subtotals
>>       - Show subtotals (I have this selected)
>>       - Do not show
>>       - Text book style (experimental)
>>
>> It's not impossible that I am missing it somewhere, but if so, please tell
>> me where to look.
>>
>> I also looked in Preferences > Reports, but I see nothing relevant there
>> either.
>>
>> -P.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:28 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
>> stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 1/24/2021 12:26 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
>> > > Gnucash 4.3 on a mac.
>> > >
>> > > Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals
>> twice:
>> > > once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end?
>> > >
>> > > It adds a large number of extra lines and no new information, and
>> > > balance-sheet examples from (the few) accounting books on my shelf do
>> not
>> > > do this.
>> > >
>> > > I find this very annoying and cannot find an option to turn this off.
>> Is
>> > > there a hidden way? Or even an obvious way that I'm just missing?
>> > >
>> > Edit => Report Options
>> >
>> > One of the things you get to choose is how you see "subtotals" -----
>> > none, before, after, or both. Sounds like you are doing both. Just turn
>> > off the one you don't want and keep the one you do want. My personal
>> > preference is "after" so that's what I specify.
>> >
>> > I will suggest again, anybody new to gnucash should spend a little time
>> > investigating the options available to each report used. You don;t have
>> > to accept the defaults.
>> >
>> > Michael D Novack
>> >
>> >
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