[GNC] Adding custom reports

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 5, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Bill Manuel <BillsGnu at q.com> wrote:
> 
> I am unable to add custom reports to gnucash.
> I use Gnucash 3.3 updated from 2.6.19 on windows 8.1.
> The custom reports and configuration pages at wiki were my guides to add custom reports:
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GTK_CONFIG_HOME
> 
> I copied, then opened “Hello-world.scm” , edited the sections as described in the custom reports link
> 
> 1. change define-module line
> 2. change name line
> 3. commented out the menu-name line
> 4. changed menu-tip line
> 5. got and pasted in a guid
> 6. and saved it under a new name.
> 
> In addition, I coped a report at github (https://github.com/dschwen/gnucash-reports/blob/master/psl-budget.scm)
> 
> I created a file in MSWord saved as config.user (then, as an alternative when the process failed) config-user.scm containing the lines:
> 
> (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "psl-budget.scm"))
> (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "my-hello-world-.scm"))
> 
> and placed both the config file and custom.scm reports in the gnc_data_home/gnc_config_home folder which the configuration page indicated, for windows, was
> 
> C:/user/myusername/appdate/roaming/gnucash.
> 
> After doing all this, I started gnucash but neither of the customer reports showed up in the menus.
> 
> Don’t know if this is relevant, but the wiki-config page indicated what files are in GTK_config_home. My GTK_config_home (appdata/local/gtk3.0) is empty.
> 
> If someone can help, it would be appreciated.

Did you make sure to tell MSWord to save the files as plain ASCII (not UTF8!) text? 

Regards,
John Ralls