How do you re-save a custom report?

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Andrew
Sackville-West<andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:51:38AM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Hrmm ... well, as you say, it may change in the next version.
>
> in the next version, deletion saved reports has been implemented. so
> to do a "rename" you'd still have to change the name of the previous
> saved report, and save it, but you could at least then delete the old
> version.

That would be a definite help, thanks. If I change the name and
options of my current custom report, save it, and delete the old one,
will the new one continue to work? Or will GC think the new report is
based on the (now non-existent) old report, and fail to run the new
report?

> sorry there is no rename (yet? not anytime soon by me), but at least
> it's a step in the right direction.