Budget report with a different format

Tue Dec 7 10:46:29 EST 2010

For now, I've just been copying the report to the standard-reports directory 
each time.  Hmmm...   Makes sense that there should be another place that is 
looked, maybe under the gnucash config dir (.gnucash on linux, 
~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash on OSX).

 Phil
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I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for it.

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From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
To: Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com>; Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 2:53:09 PM
Subject: Re: Budget report with a different format

Phil--

Keep in mind that I am on Mac OS X (and that I am truly proof of the adage that 
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing).

Gnucash runs correctly without your report. 

Following wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports, I put the report in 
~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, that is, in the same folder as the 
saved-reports-2.4 file. I have a config.user file in that folder that loads the 
report.

If I comment out the report load line, Gnucash runs fine. If I reactivate the 
command, it crashes.

Looking at that wiki page, the command used in the example is "load", but for 
some reason the command I put in my cofig.user was "load-from-path". I am sure 
this came from direction on the lists at some time. Could that the problem?

Personally, I think that it would be preferable that this report be placed in 
the same spot as other non-distribution reports (i.e. .gnucash, or OS X's 
~/Library/ ... folder), rather than in the distributed application. If for some 
reason I need to reinstall, then your report will get clobbered. I will test to 
see whether moving it there would make a difference.

David

--- On Mon, 12/6/10, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:

From: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
Subject: Re: Budget report with a different format
To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, "Daniel Trezub" <daniel3ub at gmail.com>
Cc: "gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 6:04 AM

Just looking at that stack, I don't see how my report is the cause.

Does gnucash run correctly without my report, but when you add it, it crashes?  
I realized I didn't indicate it should be added.  It should be placed into 
share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/reports/standard-reports under your gnucash 
directory and then gnucash needs to be restarted.  It will then appear under 
Reports/Budget Reports.
 Phil
---------
I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for it.

From:
David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
To: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>; Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 12:48:12 AM
Subject: Re: Budget report with a different format

Phil--

I've now tried your modified budget report under 2.3.17, without success. 
Gnucash crashes on startup, with the following:

Backtrace:
In current input:
   1: 0* [gnc:main]
In 
/Applications/Gnucash-2.3.17.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:

208: 1* (gnc:initialize-config-vars)

/Applications/Gnucash-2.3.17.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:208:3:
 In expression
(gnc:initialize-config-vars):
/Applications/Gnucash-2.3.17.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:208:3:
 Unbound variable: gnc:initialize-config-vars

--- On Mon, 11/29/10, Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Budget report with a different format
> To: "Phil Longstaff" <plongstaff at rogers.com>
> Cc: "gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
> Date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 4:03 PM
> Phil, I love the idea!
> But... how do I install/use
it?
> I am using GC 2.2.9 in a Ubuntu 10.04
> 
> Thanks!
> =====
> Daniel Trezub
> http://www.gameblogs.com.br
> 
> 
> On 27 November 2010 17:08, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have been playing around with the budget report to
> provide the info I
> > want in the format I want.  For now, I've just
> called it "PSL
> > Budget" (my initials).  I don't know what bugs
> there might be.
> >
> > The format.  There are 3 sets of columns. 
> Each set of columns can have
> > budget/actual/diff values.  The three sets of
> columns are (1) current
> > month (2) all months up to and including this one (3)
>
full year.  This
> > allows me to see budget room (or over-budget) for the
> month, accumulated
> > budget room (or over-budget) from past months and
> budget room (or
> > over-budget for the year).
> >
> > In the general tab of the report options, you can
> select which month is
> > the current one.  I haven't tied this in to the
> date yet.
> >
> > I don't know what bugs there are or if this will make
> it into 2.4.0.
> > I'm interested in any feedback.
> >
> > For any developers who might want to tweak this or
> create budget reports
> > which combine columns: Under the surface, I've done
> some work in how
> > budget columns are specified, so that a column set
> spec is given to the
> > budget report engine.  Look at lines
> 500/501.  This is where the
column
> > sets are specified.  The spec is a list.  If
> a list item is a number,
> > the column set is the budget/actual/diff for that
> period.  If the list
> > item is a list of numbers, the column set is the sum
> of
> > budget/actual/diff for those periods.  Thus, (10
> (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> > 10) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)) specifies first set =
> november, 2nd set
> > = jan-nov, 3rd set = whole year (indexes start at
> 0).  You could have
> > ((0 1 2) (3 4 5) (6 7 8) (9 10 11)) for 4 sets, each
> one being a
> > quarter.  Eventually, I'd like to see the report
> engines take a row
> > specification (what accounts and how to subtotal/total
> them) and a
> > column spec (what columns and how to subtotal/total
> them), both of which
> > are
user-definable.
> >
> > Phil
> >
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