Default invoice filename

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 03 October 2014 23:02:05 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2014 22:47:46 Adam wrote:
> > On 19/09/2014 11:35, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 September 2014 23:02:30 Adam wrote:
> > >> Hi All,
> > >> 
> > >> Is it possible to alter the default invoice filename when I
> > >> export
> > >> it
> > >> as PDF?
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > >> "This setting chooses the file name for PDF export. This is a
> > >> sprintf(3) string with three arguments: "%1$s" is the report name
> > >> such as "Invoice". "%2$s" is the number of the report, which for
> > >> an invoice report is the invoice number. "%3$s" is the date of
> > >> the
> > >> report, formatted according to the filename-date-format setting.
> > 
> > Is filename-date-format another registry key within pdf-export? If
> > so, what's the format? I'd like to change it from the US style
> > month-day-year to year-month-day.
> 
> Yes, filename-date-format is indeed another registry key. It takes an
> abbreviated name for one of the formats supported by gnucash. From the
> description of the parameter:
> 
> This setting chooses the way dates are used in the filename of PDF
> export. Possible values for this setting are "locale" to use the
> system locale setting, "ce" for Continental Europe style dates, "iso"
> for ISO 8601 standard dates , "uk" for United Kingdom style dates,
> and "us" for United States style dates.
> 
> The year-month-day format you want is 'iso'.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

P.S. I see a certain "LoneRanger" started to add my explanation to the 
Windows wiki page. Nice job, thanks!
I have just now added the information on the second parameter there as 
well.

Geert