[GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 29 09:07:49 EDT 2018


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> <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.
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> 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.
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> Tnx
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> Kind regards
> 
> DAvid
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <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>
> 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.
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> 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> <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.
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>> 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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