Re: Comparison Report strangeness
John Pollard <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:50:56 -0800 (PST)
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On Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 1:17:10 PM UTC-6, Kobac wrote: > 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. Strange: I read your original post some time ago and composed a reply to it - but clearly, I never sent the reply. My comments basically said I could not reproduce your problem, but was not certain I created the exact conditions necessary to do so. Can you post a link to the Community Discussion you referred to?