[GNC] Adding custom reports

Bill Manuel BillsGnu at q.com
Sun Dec 9 12:24:53 EST 2018


Tried all these suggestions (including Mr Janssens suggestion naming the 
file config-user.scm) and nothing new shows up in the reports pulldown. 
The trace file after the reboot was empty.


On 12/6/2018 8:22 AM, D wrote:
> Also, the file name should be "config.user" and not " config.user.txt"
>
> The file *type* should be text.
>
> On December 6, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's some reports about the (gnc-build-userdata-path) part causing
> problems.
>
> Try the following instead:
> (load (pk (gnc-build-userdata-path "psl-budget.scm")))
> (load (pk (gnc-build-userdata-path "my-hello-world-.scm")))
>
> and please report back the tracefile:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>
> C
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 07:55, Bill Manuel <BillsGnu at q.com> wrote:
>
>> I saved the config files in plain text format:
>>
>> config-user.txt
>>
>> which an internet search indicated is the same as ASCII. Did not fix the
>> problem.
>>
>> Bill M
>>
>>
>> On 12/4/2018 4:03 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-user mailing list
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
>> -----
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.



More information about the gnucash-user mailing list