Advanced Portfolio report

[Leslie Katz]

Mike Alexander wrote:

> --On February 7, 2006 12:02:40 PM +1100 Leslie Katz 
> <lesliek at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>>> For the former you click the "save report" button /after changing the
>>> default report name/... If you dont change the report name before
>>> clicking Save Report then gnucash will crash the next time you run
>>> it. If you successful "Save report" it will show up in your Report
>>> -> Custom menu next time you start gnucash.
>>
>>
>> My new report, "Secrep", does now show up under "Custom". I also
>> find, under /home/leslie.gnucash, "saved-reports-1.8", as Andrew told
>> me I would. I'll now google "gnucash custom reports", as suggested by
>> Andrew.
>
>
> I think there are some bugs in version 1.8.x which cause it to not 
> save the custom report reliably when you click Save Report. It seems 
> that it is more likely to work if you update the report immediately 
> before clicking Save Report. If it does work, it will just append a 
> copy of the report definition to ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 so you 
> may end up with multiple definitions of the same report in the file. I 
> don't know if that matters, but I've edited the file to remove all but 
> the last one to be safe.
>
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to give me that information, 
Mike. Right now, the risk doesn't apply to me, since I've seen that I 
don't have the skill to edit the custom report I've created and have 
just gone back to using the supplied "Advanced Portfolio" account.

Thanks again,

Leslie