report guid

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting "J. Alex Aycinena" <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a report and see that all reports have a guid and are
> defined as follows:
>
> (gnc:define-report
> 'version 1
> 'name reportname
> 'report-guid "c4173ac99b2b448289bf4d11c731af13"
>
> Where do the values for these guid's come from? Where do you get a
> value for a new report?

They are random.  The easiest way to generate one is to generate
a new UUID:

  uuidgen | sed -e 's/-//g'

> Thanks in advance for a response.
>
> Alex

-derek

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