similar sets of accounts

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008, you wrote:
> 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".

Hi,

Jannick - you shouldn't be saving your data under ~/.gnucash  - that is 
something which could lead to your data being lost (although, I'm uncertain 
form what you have written that you are!).

Once you have customised and saved a report, the details go in 
~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.0, and the report appears under the menu 
Reports -> Custom -> [list]

If you have multiple data files, then a saved report for File A will still 
appear in the menu for File B - the reports are per user, not per data-file.


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

Assuming that you haven't added accounts to the default chart.  AFAIK, once 
you have "forked" the chart, that can't be assumed true.

HTH,
Maf.