Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-30 Thread Vincent Dawans
I ended up spending the week-end learning a bit of scheme and submitted a patch via the bug report https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765920 I assume developers will see it that way. With my patch, it retains the existing option (where the running balance is retrieved from the account along

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, I think a clarification would be useful in the interim til the option is fixed. Regards, Adrien On 10/26/22 7:53 PM, Vincent Dawans wrote: Yes it is indeed a simplified example I was using. And your second example is the one that indeed I show as working (the one with all expense

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Vincent Dawans
Yes it is indeed a simplified example I was using. And your second example is the one that indeed I show as working (the one with all expense accounts; in my example I just have 2 -- dining and clothes). That as long as all transactions are included in the time period. But as soon as you use one

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It could just be that you're providing a simplified example, but in that screenshot I noticed every single line had the Checking Account as the 'Transfer' account. (other account) Why not just run the report on the Checking Account only? It would then give you a running balance that makes

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Nope, the first one came through the list just fine. Regards, Adrien On 10/26/22 4:24 PM, Vincent Dawans wrote: [Ooops I think I messed up my reply to/cc mix, so trying again -- still new to this mailing list thing] ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Vincent Dawans
[Ooops I think I messed up my reply to/cc mix, so trying again -- still new to this mailing list thing] Thank you Adrien. I would expect a running balance starting with the first transaction amount and ending with the last transaction as sorted. As if you were putting a list of transactions in

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Vincent Dawans
Thank you Adrien. I would expect a running balance starting with the first transaction amount and ending with the last transaction as sorted. As if you were putting a list of transactions in Excel and simply creating a running balance by adding the previous line's running balance+current line. In

Re: [GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Perhaps a clarification as you mentioned would be best and easiest for now. I'd dare ask, if you're sorting primarily by date, with multiple accounts selected, what do you want the running balance to be? Just those accounts? (is that even useful?) Or the entire Book? Any of those could get

[GNC] The meaning of Running Balance in Transaction Report: bug or enhancement request?

2022-10-26 Thread Vincent Dawans
Hello. Seeking some feedback on this particular question. The transaction report has a "Running Balance" option in the display settings. Also by default the transaction report sorts and groups transactions by account. In that context, the "Running Balance" option shows the running balance within