Report for Profit and Loss only returns monthly report and not yearly or quarterly

[CaptureKervin]

Good day Xero,

I was trying to get the Profit and Loss report values in a yearly basis. See image below.

but the return I received was just a report for the whole month. See image below:

I checked the API documentation on https://xeroapi.github.io/xero-ruby/accounting/index.html#api-Accounting-getReportProfitAndLoss and changed "timeframe" into "time_frame", but same thing was still returned.

I made the timeframe into "QUARTER", but the same output was received. Also changing it into "time_frame" didn't do the trick.

Am I missing some params, or is it the API at fault?

Cheers!

[rjaus]

Hey @CaptureKervin,

Just took a look at this. I think your issue is that you're not specifying a fromDate & toDate.

From the docs:
https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/reports#profit-and-loss

fromDate | The date the report starts e.g. 2021-03-01. Defaults to the begining of the current month if not provided.
toDate | The date the report ends e.g. 2021-03-31. Defaults to the end of the current month if not provided.

If you do not specify, it retrieves the current month, and the timeframe is pretty irrelevant.

If you specify a year of data, and then MONTH or QUARTER, you'll get the data segmented as expected.

I haven't tried this specifically with the ruby wrapper, but that's how the API works (which I have verified). If you can try that in the wrapper and still face issues let me know and I'll take a closer look.