similar sets of accounts

[Jannick Asmus]

On 06.05.2008 16:09, Maf. King wrote:
> 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!).

Hi,

oh I was not very clear here. What I wanted to say was that the template 
  or rather the code of the templates is saved in saved-reports-2.0. 
Certainly the reports themselves are stored in another folder regularly 
backed-up.

> 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]

Right, apparently I did not come across to express it like this. :-(

> 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.

Josh gave some background information in his reply.

> HTH,

It does. :-)

> Maf.

Best wishes,
J.