can I get info on quanties from bill splits?

[Shane Litherland]

Hi Derek,
thanks for guiding me :-)

That was the issue, needing it in ./standard-reports directory, then it
came up in the reports menu in gnucash.

I had, some time ago, customised an invoice and added it to the
'business' sub-menu, which (after a bit of revision of the scm files) I
realise I could do similar with this new scm file if I chose. But first
i'll see if I can modify it to get the output I'm after.

If I have a win I'll share it back. If i strike more dramas i'll sleep
on them... if that don't resolve them, i'll be asking for more tips!

BTW - whilst fiddling with this setup, starting gnucash and sometimes
getting it to launch but sometimes not - either way, my gnucash.trace
file (in /tmp) was zero bytes, empty, not a clue to give to me...

Regards,
Shane.

 On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 12:13 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Shane Litherland <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Derek, list;
> >
> > now that i'm at end of financial year, i've put some time into fiddling
> > with a custom report I'd corresponded about months ago.
> >
> > Some tinkering, but came up with errors. so went back to baby steps:
> > made a copy of transactions.scm, renamed it quantity.scm and gave it a
> > new guid (generated from relevant gnucash command in terminal)
> >
> > so theoretically quantity.scm should work?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Did notice that I'd saved it one-level up in gnucash directory
> > (under ../report whereas transactions.scm is
> > under ../report/standard-reports).
> 
> I don't think it will find the report under "report".  I think you need
> to put it into the "standard-reports" directory in order for GnuCash to
> actually load the report.
> 
> > Ran a report from gnucash menu - transaction report. changed its name
> > and saved that (in my home folder/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4)
> 
> This is irrelevant.  The real test is:  do you see your new report in
> the Reports menu?  If not, then it's not being loaded properly.
> 
> Take a look at the gnucash.trace file.
> 
> [snip]
> > Also tried three locations of guid changed at once, still error.
> 
> This implies to me that your report isn't being loaded.
> 
> > Three places I changed were:
> > (let ((options (gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
> > "8b704744ae8dd94a91826f18952cae80" "Transaction Report")))
> >
> > 'parent-type "8b704744ae8dd94a91826f18952cae80"
> >
> > 'renderer (gnc:report-template-renderer/report-guid
> > "8b704744ae8dd94a91826f18952cae80" "Transaction Report")))
> 
> Why are you testing it this way?  That seems like so much more work than
> just getting your report to load and running it like any other report.
> 
> > Any pointers? How about ways to start/run gnucash from command line with
> > verbose or debug settings to see more info on what it doesn't like? I
> > did try gnucash --debug and it launched but didn't really seem to spit
> > anything relevant out in terminal.
> >
> > ways to run just the report from command/terminal???
> 
> No.  Reports can only be run from the UI at this time.
> 
> > I figure until I can understand how to get an identical but new-named
> > report to work, I shouldn't go tweaking report layout!
> 
> Indeed.  All you need to do is change the name, change the GUID, and
> restart gnucash.  Try putting the report into the right place.
> 
> > Regards,
> > shane.
> > PS since earlier correspondence, I figured (once I get over this hurdle)
> > I could work with either register.scm or transaction.scm to get desired
> > outcomes. Initially had played with register.scm but hit similar
> > 1st-step errors.
> 
> -derek