Re: Comparison Report strangeness

John Pollard <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:50:56 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?