Saving Report Formats

[Geert Janssens]

On 27-07-13 01:36, Ian Konen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Cat P <barking at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> The fact remains that, after editing any option, one has to rename and
>> add the report in order to save changes applied (for future retrieval
>> with those changes). Of course dynamic fields such as 'today' will
>> update automatically.
>
>> I have several custom reports which I sometimes modify to include new
>> accounts or make other changes, and at the moment there is no way round
>> renaming and adding.
>>
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
> Ah, no I hadn't noticed that.  I haven't been using custom reports long
> enough to want to overwrite a previous version, but now that you mention
> it, it does seem like a reasonable feature to expect.  It's not the worst
> omission...I guess the assumption is you'll eventually be satisfied with
> report tweaks and eventually not need to change options with any regularity.
I'll just point out here that this has been implemented recently in the 
development branch. So you can expect this improvement to be in the next 
major stable version (2.6) when it gets released.


Geert