Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-26 Thread Geert Janssens
I like the idea that options are shown automatically when a new report is opened from the Report menu and that they are not shown automatically when a previously opened report is restored (either because it was open in a tab still when gnucash last closed or when loading a saved report config

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
For starters, how do you have your accounting period defined in Preferences > Accounting Period? Second, make sure in Options > General for the report, the Start and End date are correct. I normally run with a calendar year accounting period, so the report for me was 12 months from jan20-dec20

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m one of those that leaves a few basic reports open at all times. (a YTD P&L and MTD P&L, along with AR/AP aging) But I run other reports for analysis fairly regularly. An option would be nice, but just switching the order would work well. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 3:56 PM,

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Stephen M. Butler
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

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread David H
I think from memory there are also some users that leave report tabs open semi-permanently so that when they re-open Gnucash the report results are refreshed automatically. I guess I'm thinking that the options panel would only be displayed when the report tab is first opened so that it doesn't sc

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There are also reports that appear to display an error because some options like account selection are required before any results can be shown. While the ‘work around’ was to tell the user they needed to set options, it may not be clear to the newbie what they need to do. But rather than have s

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread David H
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

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Mar 7, 2020 w10d67, at 10:57 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 3/7/20 8:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: >> >> 3 Has anyone produced an multi column Income report that lists the income >> and expense by month? > Nope. Experiment and tell us what you find. It is in the 3.8 experimental menu.

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/7/2020 11:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the Balance Sheet and Income Statement? 2 How do I d

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 7 Mar 2020 11:13:07 -0500 Ian D Henry wrote: > > I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to > questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. > > 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the > Balance Sheet and Income

Re: [GNC] hiding expense and income accounts with zero balances

2020-03-07 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 3/7/20 8:13 AM, Ian D Henry wrote: > I am very new to Gnucash and I have not been able to find answers to > questions which I think possible ought to have easy answers. > > 1 Is there a way to suppress display of accounts with a zero balance in the > Balance Sheet and Income Statement? Yes.  Cli