[GNC] Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report

[Peter S. Shenkin]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:22 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> The term is Print 'dialog'. I attached a screenshot illustrating the
> location of the export function.
>
> Across the top is the app menu, containing sub-menus. Print is not one
> of them. (Print is however a function in the File menu, which brings up
> the Print dialog.)
>
> This terminology is clearly used and the menus fully described, along
> with where each function is in each menu in the Manual.
>

In my most recent response in this subthread, I did not claim my
terminology was correct; I simply asked what you would call it.

> That aside, yes, I figured you were referring to the Print Dialog
> (rather than a menu) and no, the option to Export is not there. Why
> would you expect it to be? That dialog is for *printing*. (and for a
> report, not the book, at that.)
>

I was printing a report,.

You *can* 'print to file' on any report, but that is just storing the
> report in its same form, outside of GnuCash.


Yes, of course.

I don't find the formatting of this particular report to be user-friendly
and I was suggesting  alternatives that I thought might be more friendly to
other users as well, and I gave an example of what another program does,
which I think GC would benefit by making possible.

> Exporting creates a CSV directly, which can either then be processed by
> scripts or other apps, or opened in a Spreadsheet app.
>

Thanks. I did know that. I will live with what GC currently prints out,
though I do think it is sub-optimal.

-P.