report missing in Custom menu

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:06:11 -0500
Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:

> 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 :( .  


I changed "BoS d/c (m) 2006/07" to "BoS d/c (m) 2006/0X" and both
reports show up in the menu. So, this is obviously not caused by my
report name being too long.

I also tried "BoS 2006/07" "BoS 2005/06". Again, I end up with 2
identical reports in the menu.


> > 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

But it's not possible for the user to clone + modify his custom
reports, which would be a huge time-saver. Not only that: one cannot
even look at the  search criteria of on existing report.