[Kmymoney] Howto exclude Investments in Reports

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-09-29 20:48 GMT+03:00 Stefan Seide <bugs-debian at seide.st>:
> Am Montag, 29. September 2014, 20:20:35 schrieb Cristian Oneț:
>> 2014-09-29 20:07 GMT+03:00 Stefan Seide <bugs-debian at seide.st>:
>> > Am Montag, 29. September 2014, 20:02:36 schrieb Cristian Oneț:
>> >> Can't the investment be filtered out using the account filter?
>> >
>> > Within the reports settings -> "Konto" (i believe this is the account
>> > filter you refer to) i can only filter for bank accounts but not for
>> > investments within a bank account.
>>
>> Try it after checking 'Show equity accounts' option [1] in the settings.
>
> Yes - checking this shown all investments, now i can filter it.
>
> In the german translation this is called "Eigenkapitalkonten anzeigen" I had
> never-ever associated this point with seeing all investments (fonds/stocks) in
> the report filters...
>
> Now it boils down to a feature request:
>
> - As an user i want to have the ability to exlude all investments not used
> within the reporting period with a simple checkbox (similiar to price
> reports). Activating the filtering for investments i must remember to add every
> new investment to the filter whenever i buy a new (previously not owned)
> investment. This is laborious and error prone.
> The list of "active" investments (investments i own for at least one day
> within the reporting period) should be calculated automatically.
>
> shall i open a ticket for it?

Sure, feel free to open a wishlist item (severity=wishlist) [2].

>
>> [1]
>> https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/details.settings.h
>> tml#details.settings.general.filter
>
> Is this the documentation for 4.6.6 or the new 4.7 coming? I ask because the
> documentation shows some settings under the wrong option pane and some
> settings are missing in 4.6.6.

This [1] is the latest documentation.

[1] https://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/index.html
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kmymoney4&format=guided

>
> documentation                   program
> ===========            ===========
> General - Global Option
> * Startup                               this point is in the Views option
> * automatically save on closing - this is missing in the documentation
> * No. of backups                this is missing in the documentation
>
> View options
> * Icon size of navigation       missing in the app
> * Typ of KMyMoney view    this is missing in the documentation
>
> Filter options
> * show categories in the ledger(?)      this is missing in the documentation
> * "Eigenkapitalkonten anzeigen"     misleading translation
>
> open an ticket too? or is this the settings tab of the new version?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Cristian
>> >>
>> >> 2014-09-29 19:50 GMT+03:00 Stefan Seide <bugs-debian at seide.st>:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > there is another problem i did not found an solution so far...
>> >> >
>> >> > The question is about investment performance reports:
>> >> >
>> >> > lets say i have 2 investments A and B:
>> >> >
>> >> > * A - bought 2013, nothing sold so far
>> >> > * B - bought 2013, everything sold in 2013
>> >> >
>> >> > Now i generate two investment performance reports:
>> >> >
>> >> > * report 1: overall performance since opening
>> >> > * report 2: performance of the current year
>> >> >
>> >> > Report 1 works as expected.
>> >> > Report 2 shows both investments, while investment B has 0 at every
>> >> > value
>> >> > (correct)
>> >> >
>> >> > Now my queston is: How can i exclude all investments from reports where
>> >> > i
>> >> > did not owned/bought/sold an investment within the reporting period?
>> >> > Over
>> >> > the years there are to much investments i do not have anymore
>> >> > cluttering
>> >> > the report with "0".
>> >> >
>> >> > Closing the investment B removes them from report 2 (ok) - but it is
>> >> > removed from report 1 as well (not ok). During the period of report 1 I
>> >> > bought and sold and got a dividend (maybe) from it, therfore it must be
>> >> > included in report 1. Closing the investment seems to be no option
>> >> > here.
>> >> >
>> >> > Question - shouldnt reports ignore the 'closed' state of an investment
>> >> > and
>> >> > just look at the transaction dates?
>> >> >
>> >> > (KMyMoney 4.6.6 from Debian Testing)
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Stefan
>
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