[GNC] (Multicolumn) Reports no longer sort accounts by account code after date change

[Christopher Lam]

Please file a bug in https://bugs.gnucash.org/ and include relevant
screenshots.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 08:17, Paul Bente via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Specifically, Income Statement (Multicolumn) and Balance Sheet
> (Multicolumn) Reports
>
> I’m currently using GnuCash 5.5 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1. As I have done
> for years now, I’m preparing year-end reports using Income Statement
> (Multicolumn) and Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) from the Reports menu. I have
> assigned Account Codes to Placeholder accounts so they sort in an
> informative order instead of alphabetically by account name. I’m seeing
> new, strange behavior this year. When I open the Income Statement
> (Multicolumn) report it defaults to the current period 2024 (income and
> expenses from 1/1/2024 to current date) and the Placeholder accounts sort
> by Account Codes as expected. When I use “Options” to edit the start and
> end of period to 1/1/2023 and 12/31/2023 and “Apply”, the sort order of
> Placeholders changes to alphabetical. A similar thing happens with the
> Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) report.
>
> This is new behavior. I have been using these reports for years including
> when they were under the Experimental heading. I was using Gnucash 4 last
> January (probably 4.13 as I usually keep up to date) without this problem.
> Curiously, when I open a saved report configuration from last year, the
> Placeholders sort by Account Code but if I edit the dates using Options,
> that report also changes to alphabetical sorting.
> Additional experimenting shows that any change to report dates triggers
> this behavior. This behavior does not occur with the non-Multicolumn Income
> Statement or Balance Sheet in my limited testing.
>
> Has anyone else seen this or is there a configuration parameter somewhere
> that I am missing? I suspect this may be a bug in Gnucash 5.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paul
>
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