Custom Reports

[Derek Atkins]

Yawar,

Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> writes:

> Another reason for core/extras would be that we could say that the
> core reports are well-testing and -maintained, but the extras are a
> little use-if-you-know-what-you’re-doing. We’ve had a huge discussion
> where we’ve talked about the fact that reports might be getting crufty
> and a bit buggy, and there’s no clear responsibility for who should
> fix a report. Well, distributing a report with GnuCash seems to imply
> that the GnuCash team is fully responsible for fixing and maintaining
> it. But making it available as an extra puts the responsibility more
> on the report author’s side. So I tend to lean toward the latter.

If a report is that useful to so many people why wouldn't we want to
just include it in the next release of GnuCash?  Why require people to
find the report and install it themselves?

As for a simple "how does a report work", I recommend you look at the
hello world report.

> Regards,
>
> Yawar

-derek

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