Correct and I have a separate tab to display the budget report with those columns. I guess in the meantime this will work for my needs.
Thanks for the feedback regarding the state of the budget module. That would not be mission critical but a nice to have that would put some polish on the budgeting features. I appreciate the quick and thoughtful response. On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 5:02 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > The Budget report allows you to see planned vs. actual and a variance > column. You can pick and choose which accounts you want to include. You > might need to play with the setting for parent accounts concerning if those > lines show only amounts in the account or if they include child account > balances/figures. (recommended practice is for all parent accounts to be > placeholders only, but of course, you can choose otherwise.) > > Per the second request, I don’t think the budget module is going to get > updates any time soon. But that would be a nice feature. Until then, you > could export or copy/paste to a spreadsheet for further manipulation. (and > write a lookup formula to insert account codes from a master list - see > VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions in Calc’s Help) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 5, 2019, at 3:38 PM, Andre Powell <apowell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > GnuCash version - 3.4 > > OS - Ubuntu 18.10 > > > > I have recently moved back to using GnuCash after spending some time with > > YNAB and moving entirely to Ubuntu. I must say that I am extremely happy > > and almost regret not switching entirely to Linx before. > > > > Is there a way (and if not I would propose this as a feature) to only > > capture the parent items in the Budget Chart. I have set up a Multicolumn > > view that I use as a dashboard that I review upon opening my file. It > would > > be great just to see planned vs. actual for income and expenses. When I > > have tried to do this I only get a blank screen. > > > > Secondly, it appears that adding columns in the budget is no longer > > possible, and it can only be done on the accounts page. This would be > > helpful in sorting the accounts by account code since there is no other > way > > to sort this out for the actual budget planning. I would add that the > > budget and the budget report should mimic the same columns or at least > have > > the option to either display additional columns or not. A more minor > > observation is that it including the same total information from the > budget > > functionality (the bottom totals) to the budget report would be helpful. > > > > All the best and once again thanks for all of the hard work and > > improvements to the software. > > > > -- > > Andre > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- Andre _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.