[GNC] Report zoom in version 4.9

[TG]

Howdy,
yes sorry should have mentioned the version coming from!
both old and new are on Windows 10, with a MariaDB on a separate Linux 
server as the back-end
I couldn't find the version so I went to look at roughly when and it was 
installed and it was roughly at the end of 2019, so I"m guessing at 
version 3.8

I actually have multicolumn graph setup using balance forecast graphs as 
each pane in the window, that way I can see a bunch of accounts and at a 
glance know when to move funds around in advance.  The pixel sizing, 
thanks for that yes I had to figure out immediately as the layout was 
completely different - each graph was about 20px high after the update!

Interesting i hadn't noticed the multi account summary popup before you 
mentioned it, but the popup summary showing the data as you hover over 
the graph is much improved from what it was

thanks for confirming I'm not missing anything, and for your time to 
check it out,
best,
TG


On 2022-04-22 08:49, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 1:15 AM TG <gnucash at thegeezer.net> wrote:
> 
>> In previous version of gnucash I was able to pull up a line graph
>> report
>> and then draw a box on teh graph, which would cause the graph to
>> zoom in
>> on that section.
>> 
>> I upgraded to version 4.9 earlier this year and now I'm not able to
>> zoom
>> graphs at all, having to control size by pixel dimensions and start
>> /
>> end dates only.
> 
> Greetings! I'm a long time user of GnuCash, and I was curious about
> your question. ...
> 
> NOTE: when features go away it's almost always due to serious bugs or
> other circumstances beyond GnuCash developers' control... so there's
> probably a good reason it doesn't work the same way anymore.
> 
> But despite years of experience with GnuCash, I never use graphs, so I
> used this as an opportunity to dig around.
> 
> The report that I believe best seems to resemble what you're
> describing is called "Expense Graph" in the current release...
> 
> Reports --> Income & Expense --> Expense Graph
> 
> Just like ALL the expense reports, you have to define the beginning
> and end dates. The date options include useful pre-sets, like "start
> of previous year" and "end of previous year." Graph options here
> include the size of the steps, such as "daily" or "monthly." I see the
> report can also include a table with the same data in numerical form,
> line or bar graphs, stacked or separate, etc.
> 
> I dug around and, like you, I cannot immediately see a way to "draw a
> box" to "zoom in."
> 
> However I can change the size of the entire report by pixels or by
> percentage (from 100% downward) to make the graph take less of the
> window, and (if the report is defined by percentage) I can expand or
> contract the window itself to make the same amount of detail more or
> less visible.
> 
> I noticed a few less intuitive "dynamic" chart features:
> 
> 1) The index on the right defining the data colors is "clickable" --
> you can temporarily eliminate any particular line by clicking on the
> index.
> 
> 2) If you click on any particular data point on the graph, a "Load"
> link appears above the graph, with at least two different behaviors:
> 
> 2a) If the clicked data point includes multiple GnuCash accounts, the
> "Load" link modifies the report by displaying the clicked sub accounts
> exclusively.
> 
> 2b) If the data point includes a single account, clicking the "Load"
> link opens that account's register in GnuCash (without changing the
> report).
> 
> (I also noticed a bug: if you choose more detail than the graph can
> display and you also include a table below it, the table tacks all the
> "other" columns onto the right side without proper headings.)
> 
> To help you find out what has changed, it would be helpful to know
> your operating system, which older version of GnuCash you were using,
> and confirm the name of the report you used. (If you remember when and
> how you installed GnuCash and which Operating System, folks here might
> be able to infer the GnuCash version within a few releases.)
> 
> If you need to reinstall an older version to refresh your memory, you
> might make a backup copy of your data before opening it in an older
> GnuCash in case something untoward happens.
> 
> Here's an example: I'm currently running GnuCash 4.10+ (flatpak) on
> Ubuntu 21.10. I try to upgrade as soon as possible after each release
> is available for my OS. To figure out the first version I used, I
> believe I've been using GnuCash sometime before 2008, and (using "git
> log --before=2008 | grep release") I think version 2.1 was the latest
> version of GnuCash available before 2008. (Plus or minus, YMMV, etc.
> etc.)
> 
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