Attempting to clone Custom Multicolumn Report

[Jim Thompson]

David,

Ah ha! Your method looks like it works for me.

What I had been trying...

- Reports
- Sample & Custom
- Custom Multicolumn Report
- Options
- Contents
- Add Summary Charts (my original custom multicolumn report)

This worked to the point of having a duplicate set of reports, but when
attempting to Edit Options of an individual report (to change dates) -
that's when GC crashed.

Thanks much!
Jim


On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:31 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> What do you mean when you say "cloned?"
>
> If you copied the scm file at the operating system, then you probably have
> duplicated the report's guid, which will cause Gnucash to crash. (As an
> aside to developers, perhaps this aspect of the reports could be modified,
> so that gnucash would simply omit loading a duplicate report and inform the
> user of this, rather than crashing?). If this is what you did, you could
> try editing the scm,and putting in a new guid.
>
> If this is not what you've done, you should provide a little more context
> about how you cloned the report.
>
> Personally, I have created new versions of multicolumn reports directly in
> gnucash by using the "Dave report configuration as" button, with some
> success.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:40, Jim Thompson
> <jthomps6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Have a set of 5 charts (in a custom multicolumn report) that give useful
> summaries. With the new year, they default to showing this year's data.
>
> Last year's data is interesting, so wanted to make a cloned set of reports
> and change the reporting periods to Start of previous year & End of
> previous year.
>
> This causes my GC (version 2.6.15) to crash.
>
> Not wanting to flood everyone's email with huge attachments, details (for
> those who are interested) are here:
>
> https://haveforkwilltraveljt-gnucash.blogspot.com
> 2 posts there:
> - what I was doing
> - crash details
>
> I can modify the original reports - change them to use last year's data -
> but it's tedious to modify all 5 reports... Plus, would prefer to have 2
> sets of reports - this year's and last year's...
>
> Comments or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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