[GNC] Adding custom reports

[Stephen M. Butler]

I just got my custom report to work on my wife's Windows 10 machine.
1.  Be sure that notepad can open and read the files without strange 
characters.

2.  Files must be in the %APPDATA%/GnuCash folder 
(C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash)

3.  Config file is named: config-user.scm   [note the extension is .scm 
and not .txt) and has the contents
  (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "custom-report.scm"))

4.  Custom report named: custom-report.scm

If that still fails, then post the most recent contents of the log file 
from C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Temp\gnucash.trace.??????.log 
where ?????? could be most anything.  Look at the timestamps and get the 
most recent one.  That will indicate if GNC even saw the config file 
load statement and the outcome of the attempt to load it.

An empty tracefile implies GNC never saw the config-user.scm file (or 
maybe it wasn't readable)
--Steve


On 12/9/18 9:24 AM, Bill Manuel wrote:
> 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 

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Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
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