How to add reports into Gnucash

[David T.]

Derek--

I changed config.user the way you mentioned, and had a very different result: gnucash completely crashed. I followed the instructions for getting a stack trace with gdb, but ended up with screens and screens of gnarly messages, none of which stood out to me. (I'm not at that computer right now, or I could give more details). Removing the load command from config.user restored GC functionality, so I suspect that the source report (which I copied from the list archives) is corrupt or out of date. 

Rather than continue to bug the list with this problem, I emailed the person who did the modifications on the Monthly Cash Flow report, but I have not heard anything back. Unfortunately, I have almost no programming skills whatsoever, so I don't even know how I can clear this up to try it out. Any suggestions would be welcome. I'd really like to figure out how to get this report working.

David


--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: How to add reports into Gnucash
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Users Gnucash" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 7:37 AM
> 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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