Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 22 11:25:25 EDT 2012
David,
"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.
I (personally) had left reports because I agreed with you so I didn't
think it needed to continue.
> 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?
Well, the #1 question is storage location. Where do you store the
saved reports? I cannot think of a good place offhand in a way that
makes them travel with the data file.
> Thanks,
> David
-derek
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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> -derek
>
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Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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