Gnucash Reports Archive

[Derek Atkins]

Gregory Novak <novak at ucolick.org> writes:

> 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?

In my experience so far, at least in terms of #1... yes.  E.g. the
Fancy Invoice report was donated.  It's not fully functional at all.
It hard-codes a lot of information because it's really just an
example, not a full-fledged report.  Yet it's in the source tree and
even installed.

I can't speak to #2.  I doubt that /ALL/ useful reports have already
been written.  But if there /IS/ another useful report, wouldn't it be
best if GnuCash shipped with it?

-derek
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