Forwarding a post made in devel some time ago. Some reports have an option 'Display / Parent account subtotals = textbook style (experimental)' and has been untouched for 15 years; I plan to remove this option because it's very buggy. Is anyone using it at all? The better option is 'show subtoals'.
C ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 04:37 Subject: about these account-summary reports... To: gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org> I'll be aiming to replace and upgrade the following reports: - balance-sheet - income-statement - account-summary - budget-flow - cashflow Basically all of above are using html-acct-table to create a 2D grid (vertical = accountlist, horizontal = indented amounts). I think I can upgrade to use a cleaner html-multicolumn-acct-table instead. I will be merging their display/parent-balance-mode and display/parent-total-mode options into one. As far as I can see, there are only two valid combinations that will produce useful subtotal strategy: 1. parent-account-balances = "Account balance", parent-account-subtotals = "Show subtotals" - this matches my 'multilevel subtotal strategy (i.e. each parent+children account family is followed by the parent+children subtotal) 2. parent-account-balances = "Subtotal", parent-account-subtotals = "Do Not Show" - this matches my 'recursive-bal subtotal strategy (i.e. parent amount incorporates whole children amounts, and if parent has own amount, display it as a child account on the next line) The other options are invalid - i.e. Parent-account-balances = 'Do not show' will obligatorily lead to amounts missing whereby parent-account has an amount. And the Parent-account-subtotal = "Text book-style (experimental)" is internally known as 'canonically-tabbed', and the code is peppered with comments that "The canonically-tabbed option is currently broken." Any other combination for subtotals will lead to duplication of amounts, or missing amounts. Conclusion: I will merge these two options into the saner 2-option recursive-bal vs. multilevel subtotal strategy. I'll try to maximise compatibility with saved reports, as well as set up a transitioning report for users wishing to use old reports (with another guid). But after 1 year I think it will be wise to remove old code. Any queries please ask! C _______________________________________________ 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.