[GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts

Tue Oct 2 02:07:14 EDT 2018

What version of gnucash are you running ?

In addition there is a subtle difference between report configurations you 
explicitly save and reports you keep open when quitting gnucash.

The former are stored in a file named saved-reports-x.y. The ones that are 
still open while gnucash exits will be saved in GNC_DATA_HOME/books/
<yourbook>.gcm. These will be restored automatically when you restart gnucash.

Geert

Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2018 05:27:00 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash-user:
> I don’t know what to tell you on that front. Are *any* files in the location
> newer?
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> > On Oct 1, 2018, at 6:33 PM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>
> > <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello David,
> > 
> > I have looked at that location before but notice that the file
> > “saved-reports-2.4” modification date is earlier in the year.  This
> > doesn’t align with the date of reports I have saved only just days ago. 
> > It can be viewed using Notepad,  and wonder if it appends to the top of
> > the text?  There are no files dated September and would have thought that
> > the mod date would change accordingly.
> > 
> > I am using a different computer to store the different organisation data
> > so have a work around for that.  Once one knows the finer points it does
> > make things a little easier!!
> > 
> > Thank you ….
> > 
> > David B
> > 
> > From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>>
> > Sent: 29 September 2018 15:46
> > To: davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> > <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
> > 
> > Info about file locations is available at
> > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.h
> > tml
> > <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.
> > html>.
> > 
> > David T.
> > 
> >> On Sep 29, 2018, at 7:54 PM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>>
> >> <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hello David, tnx for the confirmation.  It was only that I had another
> >> GNUCash installed on another machine, totally separate that I concluded
> >> that was probably the issue.   It was also that when changing a report
> >> configuration, it never asked to save the file, as it does when one
> >> changes a transaction.  I thought then it must be elsewhere and save
> >> automatically.
> >> 
> >> Where are the configs saved; is it amongst the User files of windows?
> >> 
> >> I would have thought that Configs were fundamental to each work book and
> >> wonder why that was never a default?
> >> 
> >> Thank you for being prompt with the reply.
> >> 
> >> David
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>>
> >> Sent: 29 September 2018 14:08
> >> To: davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz> Cc: Adrien Monteleone
> >> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
> >> <mailto:adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>>; Gnucash Users
> >> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> Subject:
> >> Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
> >> 
> >> This is a known issue with how GnuCash handles saved reports, and has
> >> been around a long time. Your only recoourse is to create separate user
> >> logins at the operating system, and log in to each user account when you
> >> wish to access a particular GnuCash book and its reports.
> >> 
> >> David T.
> >> 
> >>> On Sep 29, 2018, at 6:28 PM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >>> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>>
> >>> <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >>> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> The saved reports are say for a year ending, for "Profit and Loss" in
> >>> one organisation through "Reports > Income & Expense > Profit & Loss"
> >>> and then set the parameters.   Then save the report configuration
> >>> Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S  .  The resulting Config is in path "Reports > Saved
> >>> Report Configurations" which obviously is OK for one organisation, but
> >>> the naming and other settings is not any use for the other
> >>> organisation, but shows in the list even though a different GNUCash
> >>> file has been opened.
> >>> 
> >>> How can I store reports for the org that I am working on.  As you say it
> >>> seems though report config is per user and not per book.  Will look at
> >>> the "Close Book" function anyway to see what it does.
> >>> 
> >>> Tnx
> >>> 
> >>> Kind regards
> >>> 
> >>> DAvid
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gnucash-user
> >>> <gnucash-user-bounces+davidbrown.rdps=photos.bozeat.biz at gnucash.org
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+davidbrown.rdps=photos.bozeat.biz at gnucash.
> >>> org>> On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone
> >>> Sent: 29 September 2018 11:12
> >>> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with
> >>> previous year in different Accounts
> >>> 
> >>> Not sure what you mean by ’saved reports’.
> >>> 
> >>> There is a place to save report configurations. That is per user, not
> >>> per book as far as I’m aware.
> >>> 
> >>> If you want to run a report, say an Income Statement or P&L for each
> >>> year and store the result, then run the report, and ‘print to file’ or
> >>> use the Export to pdf function. You can store a copy of each report
> >>> with the respective book if you like.
> >>> 
> >>> If you aren’t using the ‘close books’ function, you can run reports at
> >>> any time for any period, no need to ’save’ them unless you really want
> >>> to.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Adrien
> >>> 
> >>>> On Sep 29, 2018, at 4:25 AM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >>>> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>>
> >>>> <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> >>>> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Sat 29 September
> >>>> 
> >>>> I have set up two Accounts of different organisations, both accessed
> >>>> from the same Programme location at "C:\Program Files
> >>>> (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash.exe" ... The files themselves are stored in
> >>>> different locations in their respective folder relating to that
> >>>> organisation.
> >>>> 
> >>>> However I notice that when reports are Saved for one master file, they
> >>>> also appear in the list of the other file.  They are saved in the
> >>>> Application location rather than being saved separately "attached" to
> >>>> each organisation file.  I have installed a GNU.exe on a separate
> >>>> laptop and obviously that doesn't happen.
> >>>> 
> >>>> It seems a bit odd to have reports of one set of accounts, being viewed
> >>>> in the list of another?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is there a specific way of dealing with this or are all bundled
> >>>> together by default?  The list of saved reports from year to year just
> >>>> gets longer.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Kind regards
> >>>> 
> >>>> David
> >>>> 
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