[GNC] Balsheet-eg.scm problem

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2018 01:16:08 CEST schreef 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

You're welcome. I'm glad we've got it sorted.

Regards,

Geert