Report - Line Graph

[David T.]

Marvin--

Welcome to the Gnucash world!

You've delved directly into the area where Gnucash offers its greatest challenges. The reporting system--especially in the current stable release, 2.2.9--has a number of idiosyncrasies that take getting used to, and not a few workarounds. This is apparently going to get much better in the new 2.4 release, which is close to release (I don't have a date for that).

As for your specific questions: there is no particular repository for user-created custom reports. If a custom report gets created and submitted to the developers, it can get added directly to the distributed application. I understand that this is how many of the reports have gotten into Gnucash in the first place.

Finally, I believe that there is a line graph report, and you should take a look at whether it can be tweaked to meet your needs. Many folks have trouble understanding Gnucash's distinctive way of report management: that is, first you run a generic report, and THEN, once it is loaded, you open the options for the report and modify them to meet your needs. I haven't messed around with the line chart reports much, but you may find it possible to do what you want there.

If you *don't* see what you need and have to create your own report from scratch, you will need to dig into the Scheme programming language to build your report.

HTH,
David

--- On Fri, 10/8/10, MH <marvoutlistmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: MH <marvoutlistmail at gmail.com>
> Subject: Report - Line Graph
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 9:36 AM
> I'm just starting with Gnu Cash
> reporting.  What I'd like to have is a line graph that
> shows the account balance over time.  It would be
> really nice if it could be configured to show multiple
> accounts with separate overlying lines.
> 
> 
> Is there a repository of reports that one can collect from
> and add?  The program shows custom reports and the
> manual/wiki talk a bit about it. I'm not a programmer, so
> I'm wondering where to start.  I tried to find the
> report files in the GnuCash folder and couldn't find
> them.  Are they actually in the program itself?
> 
> Marvin
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