[GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match

[D.]

Derek, 

Thanks for raising those legitimate points. I think a flag or trigger to reselect accounts would be helpful. 

I would note that, to my way of thinking, when I call up a saved report, I *am* running it from scratch, although I understand your perspective. From my corner, when I call up a custom report, I'm doing the exact same steps as when I run a system report "from scratch." I open the reports menu, and I ask to run my report. In one case, it's a new report from scratch; the other is not. That's confusing to me. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Sent: Fri Feb 25 21:07:49 EST 2022
To: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match

HI,

On Fri, February 25, 2022 7:07 pm, Stan Brown wrote:
> On 2022-02-25 15:09, D. wrote:
>>
>> My recollection was that standard reports based on a class of accounts
>> (assets, liabilities) will recompile the account list each time.
>>
>> It would seem useful to extend this functionality to saved reports as
>> well...
>
> That's what I was trying to suggest, but you stated it much more clearly!

ANY report you re-run from scratch will start with the current set of
accounts.

Changing the list of accounts on a Saved Report, however, could have
negative consequences, especially if the user explicitly set the set of
accounts.  Imagine if you explicitly wanted a Cash Flow report with all
but one Asset account, saved it, and then when you re-ran the report that
account got added in!  That would change the report results.

Arguably there *could* be a flag for "using the default" which would cause
the saved report to use the current default (which may be different than
the default at the time the report was saved).  I'm not sure how we would
encode that, and it certainly would not be a backwards-compatible change.

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-derek

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