Attempting to clone Custom Multicolumn Report

[David T.]

Jim,

Glad you understood my mangled advice (I don’t actually believe thare’s a button named for me!).

I imagine that nobody anticipated embedding a multicolumn report in a multicolumn report, but it still shouldn’t crash the program.

David

> On Jan 27, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Jim Thompson <jthomps6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <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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