Gnucash Reports Archive

[Matti Picus]

Gregory Novak wrote:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>   
>> Gregory Novak <novak at ucolick.org> writes:
>>     
>>> I've thought for a long time now that it would be useful if there were
>>> a central place to post/get code for reports.  If one person takes the
>>> time to write/customize a report, it seems very likely that another
>>> person would also find the report useful.
>>>       
>> No such thing exists..  And when someone DOES create a new
>> report we put it into the sources pretty quick.  AFAIK no
>> new reports have been written at all recently.
>>     
>
> It sounds like you feel that such a thing would be useless/redunant.
> Is it really the case that either 1) Everyone who writes reports is
> willing/able to pull them into a form that's general enough, useful
> enough, and reliable enough to be included with Gnucash itself, or 2)
> All useful reports for Gnucash has already been written?
>
> The reports that I wrote for myself were a hacked up,
> half-implemented, unreliable implementation of budgeting for Gnucash.
> Such a monstrosity could never have been included with Gnucash itself,
> but I nevertheless sometimes found it somewhat useful.  I could
> imagine that other brave souls might have found it useful, too, and it
> might have grown into something reasonable if other people were
> looking at it/using it as well.
>
> However, the fact that there were no responses to my previous post
> along the lines of "Yes, I have some rough-edged reports that others
> might be interested in" is perhaps confirmation that what I suggested
> wouldn't see much use.
>
> Greg
>   
As a new user of GnuCash, with some unique needs, I would be very 
interested in perusing other peoples hacked-together reports in order to 
see how to do what.
Matti