I can't check right now but I think there is an enhancement request to show in a printable form all the settings for a given report.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 3:57 PM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > HI, > > On Fri, February 25, 2022 4:49 pm, Stan Brown wrote: > > > > On 2022-02-25 13:14, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> For example, if you ran the report, then added an account, that new > >> account would not be included by default in the report if you refresh > >> it. > >> You need to manually add the new account into the report. > >> > >> This also applies to saved reports. > > > > Wow -- I did not know this, but it explains why my balance sheet and > > income statement sometimes miss accounts. (With the income statement in > > particular, I run it only at the end of the year, so any accounts could > > have been added almost a whole year ago, and I wouldn't remember when I > > added them.) > > > > I select accounts for my saved reports in what seems like a sensible > > way: all Income And Expense accounts for the income statement, and all > > Assets, Liabilities, and Equities for the balance sheet. > > > > I don't know how hard this would be to do, but it would be nice if GC > > would keep track in a saved report of how accounts were selected. If the > > selection was by a hierarchy rather than individual accounts, GC could > > then automatically include all accounts within that hierarchy when > > running the saved report. > > Yeah, sorry -- that's not how it works. It honestly doesn't know anything > about "accounts" per se, let along hierachies. It just knows "Object > GUIDs". > > The good news is that it's only a few clicks to get "all accounts" added. > > But yeah, if you save a report, or have a report "open", it wont learn > about new accounts. > > This has been the case since, oh... 2003? 2005? Something like that. > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.