report missing in Custom menu

[Josh Sled]

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de> writes:
> Recently, I created two reports (they are identical, just operate on a
> different date range). 
>
> One is called "BoS d/c (m) 2005/06", the other "BoS d/c (m) 2006/07".
> The customer menu shows "BoS d/c (m) 2006/07" twice and "BoS d/c (m)
> 2005/06" not at all. Both menu items generate the 06/07 report.
>
> ~/.gnucash contains a file saver-reports-2.0. This file contains both
> reports.
>
> Any ideas how the menu got corrupted and, more importantly, how it can
> be fixed other than by going through the rigmarole of creating the
> report from scratch?

I think this is a (obviously pretty bad) bug in the custom report menu
handling.  IIRC, the solution is to have "sufficiently" different names for
the reports; try making sure the first character is different :( .  You
should be able to edit ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.0 (while gnucash is closed)
to achieve the name change.


> I take it it is not possible to create one report from another and just
> change some criteria such as the dates?

That is how "saving" reports works, basically, under the covers.  The options
for the source report are cloned (at runtime), and the overridden options are
applied.

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