Report error An error occurred while running the report.

[Derek Atkins]

Dane Dormio <danedormio at gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, it is a third-level account, and it also works when I just select the two
> parent accounts (without changing the "Show Accounts until level" setting). 
> So now I know two ways to fix it. :)

Ah, yes, there are several reports that don't handle the case where
there are no accounts to actually print.  This happens in your case
because you're 3 levels deep, but the report is set to only print to 2
levels deep --- but there are no top-level or 2nd-level accounts to
print...  So it goes FEH.

The short answer:  Don't do that  ;)

-derek

> - 619-663-7819
>
> www.danedormio.com
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     Dane Dormio <danedormio at gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > It is an expense over time report.  The options I modified are choosing
>     a
>     > single expense account and setting the date to a recent 10-day period. 
>     I
>     > haven't modified any global or book defaults.  The trace file that was
>     > created when I most recently got this error is attached.
>    
>     Well, the good news is that there was definitely an error in the
>     tracefile:
>    
>     ...
>       88: 45* [slotset-map-input #<procedure split->account (split)> ...
>       89: 46* [alist->slotset ()]
>     In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/report-
>     system
>     /collectors.scm:
>      135: 47  [make-slotset #<procedure #f (v)> ()]
>      104: 48* (if (not (pair? slots)) (throw (quote not-a-list) slots))
>      105: 49  [throw not-a-list ()]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 50* [dumper not-a-list ()]
>     In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/main.scm:
>       99: 51* (let* ((stack #)) (display-backtrace stack (current-error-port))
>     ...)
>      102: 52* [apply #<primitive-procedure display-error> #<stack
>     aa7e5f0:bec82e0> .
>     ..]
>    
>     Now, of course, the question is why this not-a-list happens?
>    
>     You say you selected a single account.  Does this account have a parent?
>     Can you make sure you select all parent accounts of the one account you
>     want, too?
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     >
>     > - 619-663-7819
>     >
>     > www.danedormio.com
>     >
>     > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Christopher Lam <
>     christopher.lck at gmail.com>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >> Also the trace file will be useful.
>     >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>     >>
>     >> On 13 Dec 2017 23:40, "Christopher Lam" <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Well start by stating which report caused the error. Which options did
>     >>> you modify. Did you change any global or book defaults. Any
>     particularities
>     >>> about your data file etc.
>     >>>
>     >>> On 13 Dec 2017 21:08, "Dane Dormio" <danedormio at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> How would I do this?
>     >>>
>     >>> - 619-663-7819 <(619)%20663-7819>
>     >>>
>     >>> www.danedormio.com
>     >>>
>     >>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Christopher Lam <
>     >>> christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> Not every report handles error conditions smoothly. It would be
>     useful
>     >>>> to summarise the report chosen and the options used. The report can
>     then be
>     >>>> fixed for the next release.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> On 13 Dec 2017 4:22 PM, "Dane Dormio" <danedormio at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> I am running the latest version of GNUcash (2.6.18) on Windows 10.
>     >>>>> When I
>     >>>>> choose report type the default report for that type works fine, but
>     >>>>> when I
>     >>>>> try to customize the report I get the following error: "Report error
>     An
>     >>>>> error occurred while running the report."  Currently I am trying to
>     run
>     >>>>> an
>     >>>>> expense report over a ten day period for a single expense category
>     and
>     >>>>> am
>     >>>>> getting this error.  What can I do to fix it?
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> Thanks
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>            Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>            Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available