How to add reports into Gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Sounds like a broken report.

-derek

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

> 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restored GC functionality, so I suspect that the source report (which I copied from the list archives) is corrupt or out of date.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
>> 
>> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>> 
>> -derek
>> 
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