Not knowing anything about the internal workings of Gnucash...
It seems from a UI-perspective, that having a checkbox for "Include
subaccounts of selected accounts" as a report option setting, is pretty
clear and simple.
If I have a report setup for particular accounts that represent some
Precisely.
There's no way to know the user didn't intend to keep the new sub
account out of the report.
Certainly, the assumption should never be made to automatically include it.
The best implementation I can think of would be to check if new accounts
have been added since report last run,
My experience matches that of George, and I don't see how changing the levels
could gather a new account into the report.
The issue has been raised before recently, although I couldn't track it down.
Short of rewriting the report code to re-evaluate the account set every time a
report is run,
George
Have you tried changing the number of sub-account levels in the report options?
(Edit->Report Options with the report open). It may be possible that changing
from the default level of 3 and/or changing the option to flatten the account
structure (you can always change it back again if the
I am learning that when I add another subaccount to an account already
has subaccounts and the account is already in several "saved report
configurations" that I now have to go back through each and every one of
my "saved report configurations" and update its Options to include that
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