Many reports share similar sorts of options. Some common ones include:

• Report Title

  Set the title of the report. This doesn't affect anything else, but can be handy if you need to print the report for later viewing.

• Date Options

  Reports typically allow you to specify either a single date, or a date range, for the report. Dates can be specified in two ways: directly (using the date selector), or selecting a "relative" date from the menu. Relative dates allow you to specify dates like "the beginning of this year" or "today", and are highly convenient for doing "rolling reports".

• Interval/Step Size

  This option is used on bar charts to determine the interval which each bar represents. Typical values are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.

• Accounts

  Most reports give you the opportunity to select the appropriate accounts. Note that some reports only allow you to select certain types of accounts - for instance, an expense piechart only allows expense accounts to be selected.

• Show full Account Names

  Many reports and graphs let you select whether to display short account names (for example "power") or full account names (for example "utilities:power").

• Include Subaccounts?

  Summary reports typically have "include all subaccounts" option, which if selected ensures that all subaccounts are included if the parent account is.

• Depth

  This option allows the selection of how "deep" the report displays subaccounts. If the subaccounts go deeper than selected, most reports will calculate an overall value for all the subaccounts and include it in a higher-level total. If you want to make sure every account selected is individually displayed, select "All".

• Style Sheet

  Select a Style Sheet. Style sheets control how reports are displayed. At the moment, there are two style sheets, "default" and "technicolor". You can customize each of these from the global Style Sheet menu item.

• Plot Dimensions

  There are "Width" and "Height" options for most of the graphs, which specify the displayed dimensions (in pixels).

• Report Currency

  Most reports allow you to select the report currency (the default is your "home" currency). Generally, values will be converted to this currency for graphical display or summarization.

• Price Source

  Select how stock and currency prices are calculated in this report. You can choose a weighted average of prices over all transactions, prices at current values, or prices at the time of the report date.

• Totals

  Some piecharts display totals in the chart legend if this option is selected.

• Maximum Slices

  Controls the maximum number of slices displayed in a piechart - other accounts will be placed in a slice marked "other".