In words: In the Select categories box, when a category in the list is preceded by a category more than one 'level' above it, the selection list doesn't move the category as far 'up' the levels (to the left in the window) as it should. This makes selecting categories for reports unpredictable. In the picture above, if one were to deselect Scat1.2. in the Select categories list, both Scat1.2 and Scat1.3 would be removed from the report. As you will note from the screenshot 2 up from the bottom, the same issue does not occur on top level categories.
The file, categories, and pseudo transactions in the screenshots above were created 'fresh' in a new Quicken file. (After I did enough spelunking around my chunky old file to understand what the issue was…).
Requested particulars:
1 - Quicken Classic Premier for Windows
2 - How long has this been happening? nooo idea. it's a 'edge' sort of a problem and I usually am running reports with whole groups of categories selected so it could have been decades.
3 - I've spent about 2 hours on the phone with Quicken support staff and it's pretty apparent that this is not a problem that's widely understood (maybe because it's not widely encountered). It's completely duplicable, however, so the 'good' sort of bug to have, and ought to be easy to correct. In the meantime, I'll be naming and organising my categories so the '2 level up' situation never happens.
Cheers.
