How do you re-save a custom report?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Aug 24 11:27:46 EDT 2009


Michael Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com> writes:

> I saved a custom report, based on the Income and Expense Chart. I
> changed the options, and the name, and saved it by clicking on "Add
> Report". But if I wanted to change some of the options, and re-save
> (with the same name), how can I do that? The "Add Report" button is
> grayed out. It seems there's no way to re-save the report.

Correct.  You need to change the name (yet again) and save it, yet again.

> As a related question, how would I go about deleting this saved,
> custom report? I could just recreate the whole report, but I'd want to
> delete the old customized one, so I could use the same report name. Am
> I just overlooking something easy? Clicking "Save" doesn't do it; if I
> close that tab, all the (newly chosen) options disappear.

Right now, you have to do it manually.

In 2.3/2.4 I believe we have a Custom Report dialog to help manage
reports.

-derek
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