[GNC] Automated Reporting

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 23, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Justin Phelps <justin at onitato.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm hoping there's a command line method for generating reports from a
> gnucash file. I want to script a series of daily, weekly, and monthly
> reports that are automatically emailed to certain people. I can achieve the
> scheduling and emailing from my server, but having some way to get this
> data out from gnucash without clicking through the interface would be
> really useful.
> 
> How would you approach this challenge?

GnuCash can be scripted in Scheme via $GNC_DATA_HOME/custom-user.scm. Since that's read and acted upon at every startup I suggest that you create a user specifically to generate the reports and and create a custom-user.scm for it and put the jobs in its crontab (or use it to create the Scheduled Action scripts if you're on Windows).

Regards,
John Ralls