How to add reports into Gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I'd really like a report that allows me to see a set of accounts (one
> account per row) with several months' (e.g. January, February, March,
> etc.) totals in columns. To that end, I was trying to look at the
> monthly cash flow report that a user submitted a while back (see
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-March/012798.html),
> but I ran into troubles getting the report to load in GC. I am running
> 2.2.9 under OS X 10.5.8 using Fink (so my stuff is in /sw/). I tried
> putting the report file in the /sw/{...}/reports/ folder without
> seeing the new report. I tried following the instructions to place the
> scm file in my home directory, and then add a config.user file in
> ~/.gnucash/ that loads the scm file, using the command:
>
> (load-from-path /Users/david/toodles.scm)
>
> Unfortunately, toodles doesn't seem to load; the report doesn't appear
> in the menu, even after closing both Gnucash and X11.
>
> Can someone advise? Is that report actually still valid? Is there a
> more recent version? Should I be barking up a different tree?

GnuCash only loads reports it knows about.  Just dropping a report into
the reports directory is not sufficient.  (We've discussed changing this
in the future).

As for your config.user, you need to quote the path:

  (load-from-path "/Users/david/toodles.scm")

Make sure you have both a name and a unique GUID in the report definition.

> TIA,
> David

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-derek

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