Custom Reports?

[Mike Evans]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:39:32 +0500
"David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> OK, so back in November, I sent the email below. I still can’t get this to work, and nobody offered suggestions. 
> 
> ———————————
> Hi,
> 
> In the course of digging around my GnuCash installation (GC2.6.14, OSX10.11.6), I noticed a copy of Phil L’s Budget comparison report (psl-budget.scm) sitting in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, along with config.user which included the text “(load “psl-budget.scm”)”. 
> 
> Per the wiki on custom reports, this should load the report PSL-Budget upon startup. However, when I run GnuCash, I do not see this report in any menus. I tried changing config.user to read "(load (gnc-build-dotgnucash-path “psl-budget.scm”))” again, per the wiki, but it did not change the results. THe report doesn’t load. Neither are there any errors at the console when I run GnuCash. It appears that the report is entirely ignored by the startup.
> 
> For testing purposes, I tried copying the file into the GnuCash main bundle, first into:
>   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report (with no change in result) 
> and next into:
>   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports (with major crash and many errors, which I can post if it helps)
> 
> So, my question is: does anyone know why I am unable to get the report to load? What am I missing?
> 
> TIA,
> David
> 

Use the full path ot the patch, try:
(load “~/Library/Application Support/Gnucashpsl-budget.scm”)

or replace the ~ with the full path

Mike E


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