getting started with custom reports

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

All these docs are from the 1.6 sources.  1.8 moved a lot of stuff
around.  If you want to find all the docs for the guile-wrapped
functions you should look for all the gw-*.html files throughout
the whole build tree.

Your other best options are to look at existing reports and see
what they do...

Finally, depending on what you want to do you may not want to work
with the 1.8 reports..  A lot of stuff has changed between what's in
1.8 and what's in CVS (HEAD and g2 branches), so if your intention is
to get it into a future release you may want to work in a different
branch.

-derek

"Mark M. Ito" <marki at jlab.org> writes:

> I am trying to understand how to write a custom report. I found a
> passage in the help document quoted below, but I could find neither
> report-html.txt nor gnc.html in the "src" directory tree. I am looking
> at the contents of gnucash-1.8.11.tar.gz.
>
> Am I missing something? Should I go to an older distribution to look
> for these files? Is there more current documentation? I don't know any
> lisp, but was willing to ape an existing example. Is that too hard a
> row to hoe? I as also wondering about the "build" procedure after
> getting a correct .scm file. How do I get my report incorporated, from
> technical point of view?
>
> If pressed I suppose I could explain what it is I would like to
> report. ;-)
>
>  ==quote begins==
>
> The reporting interface is documented in the source code file
> src/report/report-system/doc/report-html.txt. The file
> src/scm/report/hello-world.scm in the GnuCash source distribution
> provides a good example of how reports are developed.
>
> It is also necessary to access data from the engine to get information
> for your report. This is performed by a set of Scheme wrapper
> functions that are documented in the file src/g-wrap/gnc.html. Examine
> some of the other reports in src/scm/report for an indication of how
> they are used.
>
>  ==quote ends==
>
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