Re: Comparison Report strangeness

On 12/01/2023 22:06, Kobac wrote:
> When I run a Comparison Report (YTD vs. prior year) of contributions by 
> payee, the last payee listed shows a balance in the YTD column but a 
> zero in the prior year column (which is correct). When I double-click on 
> the dollar amount shown in either column for any other payee, I get a 
> drill-down report showing the detail breakdown of the total amount in 
> that particular column. So far, so normal EXCEPT that I cannot 
> double-click on the total in the YTD column of that last payee to get a 
> breakdown.
> 
> I experimented by adding some test items in one of the registers and lo 
> and behold,if there is a zero in the prior year column and an amount in 
> the YTD column or vice versa *and* the payee comes last in the report 
> (even if there are two such consecutive rows at the end of the report), 
> none of the totals for those particular rows are double-clickable.
> 
> I then entered two transactions with a payee name that would display in 
> between the two end rows that had a zero total in the YTD column. One 
> transaction was dated in the current year and one was dated in the prior 
> year. Now the total in the YTD column for the last transaction in the 
> report was still not double-clickable, but the transaction that was now 
> third from the end (and showed a zero balance in the prior year column) 
> *was* now double-clickable, apparently because it was followed by a row 
> where there was an amount in the prior-year column.
> 
> My Quicken version is R53.16, Build 27.1.53.16 (the most current 
> version). My OS is 64-bit Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 with 16 GB of RAM.

I learned from the online Quicken community that apparently this is a 
long-standing problem. I reported it to Quicken.