On August 3, 2009 12:44:18 pm Colin Law wrote: > 2009/8/3 Phil Longstaff <[email protected]>: > > The budget report is my current itch, so I've been upgrading it. > > > > My latest change is to provide more control over the columns. To do > > this, the top level creates a scheme list where each element controls a > > set of budget/actual/diff columns: > > - if an element is a number, that is the period (origin 0) for the set > > of columns > > - if an element is a list, the list contains period numbers to be > > grouped and accumulated for the set of columns > > - if an element is 'total, the set of columns contains the total. > > > > For a monthly budget, the current budget report is created by the list > > '(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11). I'm looking at using '((0 1 2 3 4 5) 6 7 > > (8 9 10 11) total) which will give me Jan-Jun, July, Aug, Sep-Dec, Total > > for the year. This allows it to fit on my screen. > > > > To make this more readily available, I think the proper thing to do is > > add a new tab to the options to allow the user to set up the columns. > > Eventually, besides a "diff" column, a "percentage" column would be > > useful. > > > > Maybe this is just leading towards ideas for a complete report rewrite > > where the user can design his/her own reports with general columns and > > rows. > > > > Phil > > Will this allow a 'year to date' display showing the total ytd budget, > actual and difference for each account? If so you will be my hero. > Year to date implies the ability to specify the start of ones 'year' of > course.
YTD should be easy to add. Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
