It seems the Balance sheet honors the setting, but using the ’None’ option in Preferences produces a disconcerting result.
With the option set to Credit Accounts, all amounts (normally balanced) are positive. With the option set to None, the Liability and Equity line items are negative, but with positive totals! So I would guess it is possible to honor the setting, but using ’None’ might produce an odd looking report. From your description, it seems the Transaction Report is effectively choosing ’None’ for the user. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:24 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris, > While I understand and respect the goal of backward compatibility, I'll point > out that your changes to this report have already broken backward > compatibility, as evidenced by my original example. Settings which worked > previously yield meaningless results now, and I have had to go through every > one of my reports that are based on the transaction report and fix what got > broken. > For my use case (not all that exotic, IMHO), the setting appears to be > broken; when transactions are shown, are you saying the transactions are > reversed, but the totals are not? Because that would drive me crazy... > Is there truly no way to store and calculate values internally to the report > but display results the way the user requests to see them? > > David > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:13, Christopher Lam<[email protected]> > wrote: Sadly, the gnucash project has a long history of never removing > features. > The amount sign reversal is still functional for the transactional amounts. > Only the subtotals are unaffected. > On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 09:08 D <[email protected] wrote: > > > Then why include the option? It no longer does anything, except imply to the > user that they have control over something they Nik longer can control. > > David > > > On January 17, 2019, at 6:27 AM, Christopher Lam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This is by design. > Previously a transaction report including *all* accounts for a specified > period would erroneously add the sign-reversed amounts as displayed, which > would lead to the grand total being a nonsensical number. Eg income $100 > expense $50. Amounts:Bank $100 -$50Income $100Expense $50Grand total $200 > (nonsense) > From 3.0 onwards the subtotal strategy always adds the non-reversed amounts, > which means the grand total for all accounts for any specified period would > always be $0 thanks to the accounting equation. > Bank $100 -$50Income -$100 (subtotal negative)Expense $50Grand total $0 > On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 00:34 David T. <[email protected] wrote: > > Chris, > > I do note one issue with the new transaction report: it doesn’t seem to > utilize the Sign Reverses option—at least, not that I can see. > > Cheers, > David > >> On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:29 PM, David T. via gnucash-user >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Chris, >> >> Thank you for the lead. >> >> It turns out that I can get almost exactly the same result using the hide >> transactional data option, when I combine it with "Amount - Single”. The >> only difference is that the Account name is not presented before the total >> line. I consider that to be an improvement, actually. >> >> Bug avoided. >> >> David >> >>> On Jan 16, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Christopher Lam <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> There's "Sorting / Show subtotals only (hide transactional data)" >>> >>> You may be right that 'Display / Amount' = none is not completely handled >>> as before. >>> >>> Please file a bug, and screenshot a sample report, anonymised; please >>> enable 'General / Add options summary' to display options used. >>> >>> Also, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795064 >>> >>> Thank you for finding these edge . > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
