Basic Questions about custom reports

[Derek Atkins]

hi,

Quoting Eric! <eric at sailsarana.com>:

>
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you remember to change the report GUID and report name in your
>> new custom report?
>>
>>
>
> I appreciate your patience in answering my stupid questions, but I'm
> obviously on a level way below you here.  Perhaps I'm not asking the right
> questions either.  I would like to create a custom report, and I think I can
> figure out the guts of the SCM file based on others on the web.  However I
> don't know how to get GC to load it on startup or show it on one of the
> menus.  I don't know how the GUID works or how the "gc:define-report" should
> be set up.
>
> But starting at the beginning, should I put my SCM file in ~/.gnucash or
> somewhere else?

I'd put it somewhere else.

> Then should I edit the standard-reports.scm in
> /gnucash/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report to include my new
> report?  How does the config.user fit into this scheme?

Have you read http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports yet?

> Is there an idiots guide to making your SCM report file run on gnucash
> somewhere?  I can't seem to find anything other than bits and pieces in the
> FAQ and on the WIKI.  All I really need to do is set a start and stop date,
> but the options for the built in reports only offer a stop date.  I want to
> just look at a month's expense independant of the previous balances.

Define "idiot's guide".

Which report are you starting with?  Are you sure another existing
report wont do what you want?

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-derek

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