Re: data filters

["Prof. John C Nash" <nashjc uottawa ca>]

A colleague in our local Linux group asked me why category filters don't work for him.
He wants to be able to choose a category and have only expenses of certain types displayed 
-- which works in Gnumeric -- and also have the total of the selected items summed -- 
which doesn't, since the original column sum is kept. Both Excel and OOCalc seem to do the 
job, but he's noticed their computational qualities are less attractive than those of 
Gnumeric. (I'm sure most of us would agree.)

I found

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143220

with pointers to other bug postings that Andreus has tried to consolidate. This seems to 
be the source of this issue. Does anyone have information on progress to fix this old bug, 
or else pointers to a workaround?

JN