[GNC-dev] About Experimental Reports

[Christopher Lam]

Saved configurations, the following can apply:

Most relevant options are transferred unchanged eg account selection, dates
chosen.

Options which are not present in upgraded reports are ignored.

New options are set to a useful value by default.

The layout of most upgraded reports will be slightly different.

There is no 100% valid upgrade strategy that will satisfy all users.

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, 12:08 am Adrien Monteleone, <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> What happens to saved configs of old reports?
>
> Does GC choke when you try to run one?
>
> Is an error message generated?
>
> If the reports are renamed (and maybe relocated) will this auto-map so the
> configs still work? Or will that just blow them up entirely anyway?
>
> I’ll presume the configs won’t work on new reports since some options
> either won’t exist or have been changed.
>
> I rarely run a default report except for testing or to see what a new user
> sees when they need help or someone thinks they found a bug. For my own use
> I have customized configs. (not so many I can’t re-create them, but it will
> be some effort to figure out how to re-create those reports with the new
> versions) I’m sure some users out there have extensive saved configs.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Apr 24, 2020 w17d115, at 10:08 PM, Christopher Lam <
> christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Users
> >
> > We hope the revamped reports have been useful and welcome to the
> community.
> >
> > With 4.0 round the corner, it is time to consider replacing the old
> reports
> > with the experimental ones.
> >
> > Balance Sheet and Income Statement (Multicolumn) reports are now well
> > tested, and can replace the previous ones; however not all options will
> or
> > can survive the merge. This means most options will remain unchanged
> > - accounts selection
> > - target report currency (optional in new report)
> > - some display options
> >
> > and obsolete options ignored/renamed e.g.:
> > - asset/liability/equity individual labels/totals
> > - accounting style rules
> > - too many subtotal options
> >
> > Also the various business reports Customer/Employee/Vendor reports and
> > Aging reports are now upgraded, and can supplant the old reports
> > immediately. The newer reports do NOT need to specify an AP/AR account,
> and
> > can show related business transactions.
> >
> > The question is how to handle old reports: hide (behind a seldom-used
> > --extras argument), rename, or remove altogether. Any preference?
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