Preconfigured Reports

[PeterO]

Geert Janssens wrote
> On Tuesday 24 December 2013 09:38:58 John Gowing wrote:
>>    Hi Peter
>>    I am using GC 2.4.10 (Current release in Ubuntu 12.04; 2.4.13 is
>> latest stable), and I don't see a Save As button for reports, or a
>> "Pre-Configured Reports Dialog"
>>    Once you have a report open, There is a "Disk with a Down Arrow"
>> button with a "Add the current report to the Custom Menu" function,
>> which is exactly what it does, however remember you MUST change the
>> Name of the report for this button to become active.
>>    Reports thus saved are then available from the main Menu Bar >
>> Reports
>>    > Custom Reports Option which will give the dialog with the list of
>> 
>>    customer reports from which to choose.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Peter is referring to the current development releases of GnuCash. The
> report saving code has 
> changed in these versions.
> 
> For starters, you don't need to change the report name any more before
> saving it and there 
> are two buttons on the tool bar now: one to save a report with a different
> name, or one to 
> overwrite an already saved report (similar to how "save" and "save as"
> work for ordinary files).
> 
> What is still as before is the name of the menu item to reopen a saved
> report.
> 
> Peter, to open your preconfigured reports again, you can use
> "Reports->Custom Reports"
> 
> This is a blatant inconsistency in the renewed report saving code, which
> I'll fix before 2.6 is 
> released still. The dialog and menu should use the same terminology.
> 
> Geert
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Thanks Geert, I have discovered that. What got me confused is that when you
pick Reports/Custom Reports nothing shows under the mouse cursor. You
actually need to click-select the item which in turn opens a pop up with
saved reports. All good now, thanks!
Peter




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