PDF filenames for reports

[Mike Evans]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:31:58 +0200
Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2014 16:01:18 Mike Evans wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:46:59 +0200
> > 
> > Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 10:47:44 Mike Evans wrote:
> > > > When exporting invoices etc. to pdf to the file names are of the
> > > > form
> > > > Invoice-000141-23_04_14.pdf.  I want to change this to either;
> > > > have
> > > > the date format follow the format set in Preferences (I think it
> > > > should anyway), or get rid of the date altogether.  I've tried
> > > > using
> > > > dconf-editor (fedora) but I can't find the key to edit this
> > > > setting.
> > > > It was editable under the old settings regime using gconf-editor
> > > > and
> > > > the same key should be available in gsettings but it doesn't
> > > > appear
> > > > to be.
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas?  Is this a bug/feature?
> > > > 
> > > > Mike E
> > > 
> > > Hmm, can you remind me which setting this used to be ? Perhaps it
> > > didn't survive the conversion to gsettings. But I don't remember
> > > deliberately removing this.
> > > 
> > > Geert
> > 
> > Hi Geert
> > 
> > using gconf-editor it's (was) in:
> > /apps/gnucash/general/report/pdf_export/(filename_format and
> > filename_date_format)
> > 
> > Mike E
> 
> Ok, in dconf you will want to look for
> /org/gnucash/general/report/pdf-export/(filename-format and filename-
> date-format)
> 
> Most notable path changes in dconf are:
> - path now starts with /org/gnucash instead of /apps/gnucash
> - underscores have become invalid characters so they are replaced with -
> 
> Note that gnucash is not installed system-wide in /usr and friends you 
> must make sure that dconf can find your gnucash schema.
> 
> I believe the proper way to do so is to run
> XDG_DATA_DIRS="/path/to/gnucash/install/dir/share;
> ${XDG_DATA_DIRS};/usr/local/share;/usr/share dconf-editor
> 
> (all in one line and properly setting the path to your gnucah's share 
> directory)
> 
> Does that work ?
> 
> Geert

Thanks Geert.  I needed to add the path to my gnucash-master installation.  Thanks I can edit my prefs. now.

Regards
Happy Mike E



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