similar sets of accounts

[Jannick Asmus]

On 06.05.2008 14:24, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
>> I maintain several sets of accounts (in different files). The skeleton
>> of accounts is identical. The placeholder accounts are the same, income
>> and expense accounts are identical; just the actual bank accounts and
>> credit cards are different.
>>
>> 1) Setting up the same accounts again is a bit tedious. Is there any
>> means of copying the accounts without the transactions?
>>
> 
> File -> Export -> Export Accounts.
> 
> 
>> 2) Custom reports are shared. I am not sure whether this is desirable
>> in all situations but seeing as they are shared it would be convenient
>> in my scenario if a report could be run on both accounts. However,
>> this does not work, presumably because the internal account ids are
>> different.
>>
> 
> No Idea here, sorry.

Customized reports are stored in /.gnucash/saved-reports-2.0 - together 
with the selected accounts. But I am not sure whether you mean that by 
"custom reports".

I suspect that the internal account ids in a GC file are identical to 
those in the chart of accounts template.

> Maf.

J.