Opening custom report fails

[Derek Atkins]

Because the "save custom report" interface doesn't pay attention to
what report is actually loaded.   You just can't save the multi-column,
and it's not special-cased in the "save" routine even though it's known
not to work at all -- it doesn't work because of the way reports are
saved as a delta to the running configuration, but the multi-column
is just so special in so many ways that it just doesn't work.

Feel free to supply a patch that fixes the problem.

-derek

Quoting Bob Thibodeau <rlu53417 at earthlink.net>:

> Why does the interface allow you to if that's the case?
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:55:52AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Because you can't.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Bob Thibodeau <rlu53417 at earthlink.net>:
>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>> You cannot save a multi-column report.  Sorry.
>>>>
>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>> Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > I am using gnucash 2.2.1 on Fedora 8.  I just spent a bit of time
>>>> creating a
>>>> > custom report, saved it and was looking forward to it being available
>>>> when I
>>>> > opened gnucash again.  I got the "an error occurred while running
>>>> report"
>>>> > so...
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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>>
>



-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available