Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Mike Evans]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:09:59 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Bob Talor <philologos at mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> > I have converted both my (accounting) business and my personal
> > accounts to Gnucash 2.4.8 on WinXP SP2 and commited to use GC for
> > the indefinite future.
> >
> > The saved reports and preferences are apparently shared between the
> > two.  The reports are saved in .gnucash\saved-reports-2.4.  I have
> > experimented with swapping the file names, but this is rather
> > awkward. Since I also plan to use GC for client data this problem
> > will become more acute.
> >
> > Is there perhaps some more convenient way to attach the preferences
> > and saved reports to a particular data file?
> 
> Alas, right now there is not a good separation of preferences into
> which are per-user, per-datafile, or per-user-per-datafile.  There
> has been significant discussion about restructuring them, but no
> progress as of yet.
> 
> There has been no discussion on similar work for saved reports, but
> you are right that it needs to happen.
> 
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > Bob Taylor
> 
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> 
> -derek
> 

Would having a different GCONF_PATH for each account be contrary to
any gconf standards?  This would provide a way to associate an account
with preferences settings perhaps.  

.gconf/apps/gnucash_accname

Wouldn't solve the .gnucash\saved-reports-2.4 issue though.

Just a thought.

Mike E


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