custom reports

[Guillermo Uriarte]

Hello,

well I haven't really had an in depth look at the predefined reports. But in any case I want to make my own reports because of I am of the kind of person that likes to make things by himself. I will have a look on this SCHEMA language.

By the way, are there no standard web forums for GnuCash?

Thanks and regards

--- El sáb, 5/12/09, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> escribió:

De: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
Asunto: Re: custom reports
Para: "Guillermo Uriarte" <guiuriarte at yahoo.es>
CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Fecha: sábado, 5 de diciembre, 2009 16:07

Guillermo Uriarte <guiuriarte at yahoo.es> writes:

> Hello, I'm not a technical user. In fact I'm quite new with Linux and GnuCash.
>
> I would like to develop my own custom reports, but I find it quite
> complex (involving learning a programming language called Scheme).
>
> Which would be the best way to get custom reports? Learning Scheme or
> trying to investigate a way of getting the data out of GnuCash into
> OpenOffice and then make the reports there?

I think learning scheme would be easy.  The syntax can be learned in a
day.  There's a great reference from MIT on Scheme that you can use.
You might find that Scheme is both fun and very powerful.  See the Wiki
for more information on writing Custom Reports.

But before you go on, you might want to talk about what kind of custom
report you need.  It's possible that the report already exists, or
someone else has already worked on it.

> Thanks

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-derek

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