Embedding reports in accounts file

[John Ralls]

On May 25, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Tony Vyner <Tony.Vyner at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> John Ralls
> 
> Sorry for me sending this back to you, but it seems impossible for GnuCash to take me off the circulation list on their Mailing lists. So by sending this back to all the circulation, which includes GnuCash, maybe, just maybe, GnuCash will get the message that I am not on their lists and will stop the load of mails emanating from their support system.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony V
> 
> 
> On 25 May 2013, at 15:22, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 25, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Yann Salmon <ys1.pg.ext at free.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am currently building an account hierarchy and a set of reports that I
>>> would like to distribute to several people that are neither accountants
>>> nor very computer savvy.
>>> 
>>> What bothers me is that personalised reports are stored in a preferences
>>> file local to my computer, and it seems difficult to distribute them.
>>> 
>>> Is there a means to somehow embed or bundle personalised reports in/with
>>> the account hierarchy file ?
>>> I am trying to trying to supply my friends with a simple "open the given
>>> file and start working" scheme.
>>> 
>> 
>> No, sorry. The more common use-case is to have several account files for which
>> one wants to run the same custom report, so that's what we support.
>> 
>> I suggest writing a little installer script to distribute. It can handle both the account file
>> and the custom report files. Just don't put the account file into ~/.gnucash!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
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