Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[David T.]

Derek--

I did see your note about that and I didn't intend to suggest that you felt differently. 


I was somewhat concerned that the focus of the thread was turning only to the preferences side of things, and the issue of saved reports would get swept in with it. John was saying that the use case was rare, in direct discussion of preferences; I didn't want the reports part of this to get lumped in with that. It may be that per user-per file preferences are overkill, but I really see the reports part as pretty basic and fundamentally separate from the preferences.

You mention the difficulty of setting up the reports to be associated with a particular data file. Can you explain in a little more detail what those difficulties are? 


Thanks,
David



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 From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "philologos at mindspring.com" <philologos at mindspring.com>; "john.layman at laymanandlayman.com" <john.layman at laymanandlayman.com>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.
 
David,

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Well, actually, I see it a little differently. To me, it's a question of      
> having saved reports "go with" the data to which they refer. As it stands    
> right now, the reports are stored completely separately from the data, and if 
> by chance you have multiple data files (which is much more common in the user 
> base than the multi-user model to which you refer), then it is problematic to 
> have all reports (regardless of data file) stored in one file. It's also easy 
> to forget this file when backing up or transporting your file.                

I will point out that I did agree completely that reports should go with
the data file, and (I hope) nowhere did I imply otherwise.  I just don't
know *how* we can do that, but I agree it's a goal we should have.

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