A crucial GNUCash feature that is missing, but easy to implement for budgets

[David T.]

Geert,

Thanks for explaining this to me. 

Here is my update:

1) I added the gettext line to ytd-budget.scm, 
2) I stored the file in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/reports (the usual location for a Mac)
3) I double checked that ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config.user pointed to the file.
3) I restarted GnuCash.

The report failed to display, so I rebooted and tried again, again without success.

So, then I put the file in /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports (which had caused GnuCash to crash previously), and with THIS setup, I see YTD Budget in the budget report tab.

So, this has successfully loaded the custom report. However, this solution is problematic, insofar as it means that the next update will clobber this report. And it doesn’t explain why the documented method for adding a custom report only works in a smattering of systems.

David

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op dinsdag 17 januari 2017 16:36:25 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-user:
>> David B.,
>> 
>> I am finally back at my machine, and have opened my copy of ytd-budget.scm,
>> and I have two problems with your solution:
>> 
>> 1) “(use-modules (gnucash gettext))” is not in my copy of the scheme file,
>> and 2) "(use-modules (gnucash core-utils))” already IS.
>> 
>> By chance, could you share your copy of ytd-budget.scm? Clearly, mine isn’t
>> the same as yours! Maybe I could get yours to run on my machine...
>> 
>> TIA,
>> David T.
>> 
> David, you read David J.'s comment backwards. I did as well first time around 
> because the message was slightly mangled by the list manager.
> 
> You are supposed to add
> 
> (use-modules (gnucash gettext))
> 
> after
> 
> (use-modules (gnucash core-utils))
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert