Problem Loading Eguile Templates

[Geert Janssens]

On 13-08-12 07:47, newtognucash wrote:
> I'm having some difficulties with customising eguile templates.  I'm
> running version 2.4.10 on FreeBSD.  Said version includes the extra
> eguile templates taxinvoice.scm and balsheet.scm.  So far so good...
>
> I want to customise the invoice template for my own needs, and as such
> don't want to have to re-customise it every time I upgrade to a new
> version of GnuCash.  The obvious thing is to follow the steps in
> loading a custom report as given here:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports.  I copied the
> taxinvoice.scm and associated files into my .gnucash folder, renamed
> them as "mycompanyinvoice.scm", etc., listed them in the config.user
> file for loading into GnuCash and redefined the .scm file so that it
> is unique and listed as a separate report.  It now shows up in the
> Reports-Business menu as "My Company Invoice".  Next I changed a few
> of the options in there to have them appear how I wanted -- the
> heading font for my company name, etc.  I save that, reopen my GnuCash
> file, and the changes have come through.  Excellent.
>
> Next, I want to edit the eguile template file, since I don't want a
> due date showing on my invoices.  Before I edit the eguile file, I
> edit the mycompanyinvoice.scm file at line 141-2  It now says
>
> (N_ "The file name of the eguile template part of this report.  This
> file should either be in your .gnucash directory, or else in its
> proper place within the GnuCash installation directories.")
>      "mycompanyinvoice.eguile.scm"))
>
> I save everything, reopen GnuCash, go to produce a report based on "My
> Company Invoice", and I'm told
>
> "Template file "mycompanyinvoice.eguile.scm" can not be read".
>
> Hmm...  So my next guess is that the eguile.scm file has to be
> uniquely defined in some way besides simply changing the file name to
> make it work.  I can't find any documentation on this, though I've
> spent hours searching.  I did try a few things myself, but haven't
> found anything that works.  Does anyone have any suggestions, please?
Have you already tried to define an absolute path to 
mycompanyinvoice.eguile.scm in mycompanyinvoice.scm ? The text suggests 
that's not necessary, but it doesn't hurt trying.

Geert