Default invoice filename

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 09:09:13 EDT 2014


On 10/3/2014 4:16 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Friday 03 October 2014 23:02:05 Geert Janssens wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 September 2014 22:47:46 Adam wrote:
>>> On 19/09/2014 11:35, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 18 September 2014 23:02:30 Adam wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to alter the default invoice filename when I
>>>>> export
>>>>> it
>>>>> as PDF?
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>> "This setting chooses the file name for PDF export. This is a
>>>>> sprintf(3) string with three arguments: "%1$s" is the report name
>>>>> such as "Invoice". "%2$s" is the number of the report, which for
>>>>> an invoice report is the invoice number. "%3$s" is the date of
>>>>> the
>>>>> report, formatted according to the filename-date-format setting.
>>> Is filename-date-format another registry key within pdf-export? If
>>> so, what's the format? I'd like to change it from the US style
>>> month-day-year to year-month-day.
>> Yes, filename-date-format is indeed another registry key. It takes an
>> abbreviated name for one of the formats supported by gnucash. From the
>> description of the parameter:
>>
>> This setting chooses the way dates are used in the filename of PDF
>> export. Possible values for this setting are "locale" to use the
>> system locale setting, "ce" for Continental Europe style dates, "iso"
>> for ISO 8601 standard dates , "uk" for United Kingdom style dates,
>> and "us" for United States style dates.
>>
>> The year-month-day format you want is 'iso'.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geert
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> P.S. I see a certain "LoneRanger" started to add my explanation to the 
> Windows wiki page. Nice job, thanks!
> I have just now added the information on the second parameter there as 
> well.
>
> Geert
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I use that log-in for that purpose.  You are very welcome.

I could not fill in such detail because that is outside my expertise,
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