On 3/7/20 1:17 PM, David H wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 04:22, Michael or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> But there is some preliminary stuff you should know about the process. >> When you tell gnucash to produce the report, it will do so with default >> options. You then use Edit => Report Options to change the options that >> you want for this running of the report. In other words, the report has >> to exist before you choose options for it. A moment's thought should >> explain why you don't pick options and then open the report << how would >> gnucash know WHICH report you meant those options to apply to >> >> >> Michael D Novack >> >> >> > Michael, > > This has always seemed a bit arse about face to me. In my simple world the > report does exist as it's there in the menu items and I can select it and > run it. It's the report results that may or may not exist yet. It would > make a whole lot more sense for me personally to click on a report menu > item, have the options displayed at that point in time and for me to verify > the options and click OK to run the report at that point in time. It also > means that I wouldn't have to wait for the report to finish it's initial > run and then change the options to what I actually need :-) Newbies would > also benefit by actually seeing upfront what options are available. As you > can probably tell I don't run a lot of reports - I just use Gnucash for my > personal accounts and to track income/spending from a rental property. > > Cheers David H.
Thinking back to when I was a new, it wasn't obvious that the Options menu entry was there on the report. The report ran and either was what I wanted or wasn't with little clue how to change it. If the options pop up first thing, then it would be obvious that there is a whole lot that could be configured on each report. Someday I may get around to entering that as an enhancement. --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ 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.
