[GNC] Balsheet-eg.scm problem

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 08/27/2018 10:43 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> "Stephen M. Butler" <kg7je at arrl.net> schreef op 26 augustus 2018 06:15:27 CEST:
>> On 08/25/2018 02:15 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Having said all that my original question was what problems you had
>> when
>>> setting up the report as decribed in
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Loading_Your_Report
>>> With that I meant what problems did you encounter when storing *all
>> three 
>>> files* in $HOME/.local/share/gnucash and creating a load file in 
>> I hadn't picked up that the files had to be in that folder.  So had
>> left
>> them in the report folder.
>>> $HOME/.config/gnucash called config-user.scm with this content:
>>> (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "balsheet-fmtd.scm"))
>> I had given the path to the report folder.
>>> This works equally well on my system and is recommended.
>>>
>>> So what issues do you get when setting up the reports in your home
>> directory ?
>>
>> It appears to be ignored. 
>>
>> I moved the three files to $HOME/.local/share/gnucash (bold in the
>> below
>> list):
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /home/steve/.local/share/gnucash
>> $ ls -l
>> total 164
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 19148 Aug 25 21:03 accelerator-map
>> *-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 11472 Aug 25 20:58 balsheet-fmtd.eguile.scm**
>> **-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 33386 Aug 25 20:58 balsheet-fmtd.scm**
>> **d*rwxrwxr-x 2 steve steve  4096 Jul  1 19:03 books-rw-r--r-- 1 steve
>> steve  1240 Aug 25 20:58 stylesheet-reports.css
>> -drwxrwxr-x 2 steve steve  4096 Jun 22 12:38 checks
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 steve steve     0 Aug 25 21:03 expressions-2.0
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 steve steve  7877 Aug 13 11:00 saved-reports-2.8
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 steve steve  3121 Aug 13 11:00 saved-reports-2.8-backup
>> *-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve  1240 Aug 25 20:58 stylesheet-reports.css**
>> **-*rw-rw-r-- 1 steve steve  1614 Aug 25 21:03 stylesheets-2.0
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 steve steve  4096 Jun 22 12:38 translog
>>
>> Created the gnucash folder and config.user file in .config:
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /home/steve/.config/gnucash
>> $ ls -l
>> total 12
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 53 Aug 25 20:56 config.user
>> $ cat config.user
>> (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "balsheet-fmtd.scm"))
>>
> In gnucash 3 this file shoulb be named config-user.scm
>
> It looks like you missed the extension.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
> Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
Yes I did!!  And that works!  I've cleaned up
/usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report to revert it back to the
state when 3.2 was last compiled.  I think I'll remember that this is
there now and will have a place to look it up if I forget the details.

Thank you for hanging in there with me.

--Steve

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