Derek, Thanks for raising those legitimate points. I think a flag or trigger to reselect accounts would be helpful.
I would note that, to my way of thinking, when I call up a saved report, I *am* running it from scratch, although I understand your perspective. From my corner, when I call up a custom report, I'm doing the exact same steps as when I run a system report "from scratch." I open the reports menu, and I ask to run my report. In one case, it's a new report from scratch; the other is not. That's confusing to me. David -------- Original Message -------- From: Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> Sent: Fri Feb 25 21:07:49 EST 2022 To: Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match HI, On Fri, February 25, 2022 7:07 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > On 2022-02-25 15:09, D. wrote: >> >> My recollection was that standard reports based on a class of accounts >> (assets, liabilities) will recompile the account list each time. >> >> It would seem useful to extend this functionality to saved reports as >> well... > > That's what I was trying to suggest, but you stated it much more clearly! ANY report you re-run from scratch will start with the current set of accounts. Changing the list of accounts on a Saved Report, however, could have negative consequences, especially if the user explicitly set the set of accounts. Imagine if you explicitly wanted a Cash Flow report with all but one Asset account, saved it, and then when you re-ran the report that account got added in! That would change the report results. Arguably there *could* be a flag for "using the default" which would cause the saved report to use the current default (which may be different than the default at the time the report was saved). I'm not sure how we would encode that, and it certainly would not be a backwards-compatible change. > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ 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.