Custom Multicolumn Reports broken

[Joslwah]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:05:15 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

Dear Andrew,

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:20:09AM +0100, joslwah wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:29:15 -0700
> > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:55:06PM +0100, joslwah wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:16:27 -0400
> > > > Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > You cannot make a custom multi-column report.
> > > > > It's never worked, in any version of GnuCash.
> > > > >
> > > >     Have a look in
> > > > Reports-Sample & Custom-Custom Multicolumn Report.
> > > >
> > > >     It used to work until about a week ago, although some of the
> > > > more recent changes broken saved custom reports using this.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, but what does this sentence mean? Did you have a saved
> > > multicolumn report that worked? And you are saying that it now
> > > doesn't work?
> > 
> >     Two separate issues:
> >         1)  Custom Multicolumn Reports now don't work at all,
> > with the above error.
> 
> okay, I'm pretty sure that's an unrelated problem.
> 
	At the moment you can't even create one.  I've tested with both
gtkhtml and webkit.

> >         2)  At some point, and it may well have been the custom
> > report dialog changes that did it, saved multicolumn reports failed
> > to open.  However, recreating them did work and they saved and
> > opened correctly.
> 
> interesting. so far as I know, and I'm sure this is what Derek was
> referring to, saved multicolumn reports have never worked. Or at least
> they haven't worked in years, since at least 2004 when I started using
> gnucash. I'll have to do some experimenting!

	I've used them quite a bit, and for quite a while.
> 
> A
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