Okay, disregard other message that just crossed this one. Regards, Adrien
> On Jan 24, 2019, at 5:43 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Best build entire branch because of new chartjs dependencies > > On 24/1/19 7:35 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> I haven’t built from git yet. (no time like the present) Do I build the >> entire branch or can I just dl and build the report? >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 5:09 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps you can beta-test the budget-barchart, with the report start/end >>> dates options removed. >>> >>> This also includes chartJS preview ;-) >>> >>> https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/maint-chartjs-budget-barchart >>> >>> On 24/1/19 1:42 am, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>>> Good question — I think the budget reports are fine, it seems to be the >>>> chart that is the odd one out. >>>> >>>> As it is currently, for all of the budget reports, you choose the budget >>>> you want to report on and the range is determined accordingly. You can’t >>>> set it independently. I have no problem with this. I can’t see why someone >>>> would want to select a budget to report or chart, but want GC to use >>>> transactions from out of the budget period. (well, for comparing >>>> performance, sure, but it doesn’t work that way anyway, the Transaction >>>> Report is better suited there - see below) >>>> >>>> But for the chart, you can choose, as in my example, last year’s budget >>>> (or anything other than current year) but the default date window is for >>>> this year, which would render no data. Since you can select the budget and >>>> date range separately, you can easily end up with either no results, >>>> incomplete results, or possibly non-sensical results. >>>> >>>> For consistency, the chart should probably pull the date range from the >>>> budget choice like the reports do and not offer the options to set the >>>> range independently. >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> >>>> Now, if the reports and charts allowed you to independently select a >>>> budget and date-range for comparison of budget vs. actual (of the chosen >>>> period) that would be much more versatile. As it presently stands, you >>>> have to copy or re-do your budget each year/quarter. But if you could >>>> report a static budget against variable periods, you could have budgets >>>> based on something other than dates. (such as different scenarios, >>>> regardless of the period) >>>> >>>> Making the change that direction would not remove the ability to produce >>>> and analyze budget performance on a period basis though. If that route is >>>> chosen, I’d suggest some sort of default report/chart page to explain what >>>> options need to be chosen to get a desired result. (similar to how some >>>> other reports tell you that you need to select some accounts or certain >>>> options, rather than just dumping you to a blank page. Note, this would be >>>> a good improvement for any report/chart that requires setting options to >>>> get a usable result or non-blank page.) >>>> >>>> I’m not sure how difficult it would be to have the reports and chart look >>>> for budgeted amounts statically but actual performance based on a >>>> separately specified range. This might also necessitate some change to the >>>> budget options where you would assign values for a generic period without >>>> regard to a specific year. >>>> >>>> While that all might be nice, the easiest thing to fix right now, I think >>>> would be to pattern the General tab of the budget chart similar to the >>>> various budget reports. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Adrien >>>> >>>>> On Jan 23, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Directed towards Adrien- how should the budgeting reporting options look >>>>> like? >>>>> >>>>> Budget has start-date and num(periods) >>>>> >>>>> Budget-report-date has its own start-date and end-date -- they should be >>>>> removed? >>>>> >>>>> I don't use the budgeting tools myself. >>>>> >>>>> (ytd-budget.scm from years back seems to be a good report) >>>>> >>>>> On 23/1/19 11:37 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>>>>> This means the date range for the report (default is start & end of >>>>>> current accounting period) does not match the budget. >>>>>> >>>>>> For example, I opened a chart for the 2018 budget and got a blank page. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I changed the date range to start & end of previous year, I got >>>>>> charts for my selected accounts with budget and actual bars. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Adrien >>>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
