config file

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Jason Dunham <jwdunham at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to make a custom report in GnuCash 2.2.9 running on Windows 7.
>  According to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports it says
>
> In your home directory, edit ~/.gnucash/config.user to add a line of the
> form:
>
>
>     (load-from-path "/path/to/my/personal/report.scm")
>
>
> However, I can't find a config.user file in any of the Windows user
> directories like C:\Users\jdunham\.gnucash
> or C:\Users\jdunham\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\gnucash
>
> There is a hierarchical set of "%gconf.xml" files
> in C:\Users\jdunham\.gconf\apps\gnucash, but I didn't see anything directly
> relevant to the custom reports.
>
> I tried making a new config.user file with the above line (with the correct
> path), and I dropped it in both  C:\Users\jdunham\.gnucash
> and
> C:\Users\jdunham\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\gnucash
> but it didn't cause the my modified custom report to show up. Not too
> surprising since I was just guessing.
>
> Does anyone know where I should find or create this file?  Are there any
> other tricks to using Custom Reports under Windows?

I'm afraid I don't know where %HOME% would be on Windows..  It should
probably be C:\Users\jdunham\.gnucash\config.user -- no, that file does
not already exist, you have to create it.  As for it not doing what you
want, did you provide the correct load-path?

Also, note that in 2.3.x GnuCash will auto-load all the reports in the
install dir, so you can just drop your new report into the install
directory and gnucash will autoload it.  I know that doesn't help you
with 2.2.9, but at least going forward it will be easier to drop in a
custom report.

Good Luck,

> Thanks,
> Jason Dunham

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-derek

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