On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:41:22PM -0800, Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2023-01-06 11:35, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:17:46PM +1000, David H wrote: > >> Chris, > >> > >> Did you run a report then click on Options / General Tab - the reports I > >> run allow you to set the period for each report? > >> > > That's absolutely the last thing I want to do, I want the same period > > for every report after entering it just once! > > I don't think there's a global setting for time period in reports. It > would be nice if there were -- why not enter an enhancement request? > > I know it's a pain to set up a time period for each individual report, > but you only have to do it once (per report). And if you are smart about > it, you'll use settings like "start of previous month" or "end of > accounting period". > > When you click "Save Report Configuration As", be sure to use some > reasonable naming convention, one that makes sense to you. > I really don't want or need to save reports, it's just one more bit of configuration that I'd need to keep track of. I want things to be configured in as few places as possible.
A saved report is of little use the next year (wrong headings often). What I want is to set things up so that whenever I click on (for example) Transaction Report I just get that and not have to jump through several hoops to actually get any meaningful output. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
