Reports in Gnucash 2.4

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Exporting data from Gnucash to Excel seems to be a recurrent task for a lot
of people.
Would it be so hard to create a feature to export data directly in CSV
format?

On 21 February 2011 19:56, Colin Scott <gnucash at double-bars.net> wrote:

>
> No response at all to this?  It is getting *very* tedious having to keep up
> an old installation of gnucash in addition to a current one merely so I can
> create my reports ...
>
> Colin
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> *Subject:* Reports in Gnucash 2.4
> *From:* "Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net>
> *To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> *CC:* gnucash at double-bars.net
> *Date:* Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
>
> I run the PortableApps version of Gnucash under Windows XP.
>
> For the past year or so I have been using 2.2.9, and have developed some
> fairly complex spreadsheets to format and extract data from the reports
> gnucash produces - especially the Income&Expenditure report.
>
> A week or so ago I installed the 2.4.0 PortableApps version, and was very
> disappointed to discover that the output format of some of the reports
> (those I have looked at!) has been changed significantly.  The old report,
> if pasted into Excel, used columns to provide indentation for the names of
> nested accounts.  The new format seems to put them into the same column.
>  The effect is that gnucash reports pasted into my Excel spreadsheets now no
> longer print correctly, and my data extraction logic is terminally broken.
>
> So far as I can see, the changes offer no benefit over earlier versions,
> and are likely to affect anyone who uses Excel to work with gnucash reports
> (which I believe is not uncommon).  Is there some way I can revert to
> reports with the same output format as previously?
>
> I seem to remember encountering a similar problem with report output
> formats a year or so back, but I'm afraid I don't recall any details.
>
> Colin
>
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