[GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

Thu Jan 3 16:59:12 EST 2019

Hello All,

Happy New Year.

I am sending this from an Android tablet that sometimes makes really
punctuation and language errors, including dropping words like stupid from
in front of the word errors.

I have yet to solve my strange GMAIL problem in Firefox on my laptop, but I
did succeed in copying the message that was stuck in the drafts folder
before it crashed to a different machine and send it to the Gnucash user
maillist,
 Where it currently resides in the archive and in my sent folder of some of
my devices, but I am not sure if it was sent to others on the list.

I see that Adrien reports that he performed several tests with the current
versions of LibreOffice. And Gnucash in a windows environment without
encountering the problems that Barry has seen.  Not knowing exactly why he
wants to use that mix, it is hard to say whether certain rough edges are of
concern to him.

Hopefully we are giving him clues that he will find helpful, and if he is
still having issues, more details about his situation.

David C

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 3:15 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net wrote:

> I just tested the following using LibreOffice 6.1.0.3 and GnuCash 3.4:
>
> 1. ctrl+a (select-all) and ctrl+c (copy) from the report within the
> GnuCash report tab (not a saved file), then ctrl+v (paste) on a blank Calc
> spreadsheet.
>
> I was given a dialog to choose import coding, select my delimiters, and
> otherwise fine-tune the import (paste) with a preview of my actual data.
>
> The result is the data was imported without formatting into their
> respective cells, except that ’Totals’ somehow had a newline character
> before the figures which would necessitate some additional copy/paste to
> align them correctly.
>
> 2. Save the report to an .html file, open that file with Firefox and then
> repeat the above select/copy/paste commands.
>
> This gave me a less useful dialog box with little control over the end
> result. I was able to only select the import language and asked if I wanted
> to detect ’special numbers’ like dates.
>
> I ended up with a formatted version of the report as it appeared in
> Firefox but with each respective title or figure in a proper cell
>
> 3. File > Open the .html file from within Calc as suggested by Chris Lam.
>
> Without a dialog box, this resulted in a similar situation to #2, but with
> no grid lines within the report. (like a sheet of paper overlaying the grid)
>
> 4. Sheets > Insert Sheet from File (or Insert Sheet and then choose ‘From
> File’ radio button)
>
> I chose to ‘insert’ the .html file. This gave me the same dialog box as
> #2, but the result was the same as #3. I could choose to insert before or
> after the current sheet.
>
>
> Note, options 1-2 place the data on the current Calc notebook sheet.
>
> Option 3 opens an entirely new workbook with only 1 sheet as your report.
> (unless you’ve set default # of sheets higher)
>
> Option 4 is *adding* a sheet to the notebook, so you can only place it
> before or after the current one.
>
> In every case, the data came through just fine, though I’d probably find 3
> or 4 most useful as everything is already lined up. If you wanted no empty
> columns between your account titles and the values, 1 or 2 would work best,
> but as noted, you’ll have to do some adjusting if you included parent
> account total lines.
>
> Though I used the keyboard shortcuts, Edit > Paste was always available.
> Perhaps there is an issue with the workbook or the sheet itself that is
> disabling it? Try a websearch on ‘Edit > Paste not available, just Paste
> Only’ for LibreOffice.
>
> A cursory search turns up possibilities of a protected sheet, a read-only
> workbook, and a long-standing bug on the Windows platform that doesn’t seem
> to be easily reproducible. However, for those first two possibilities, I
> would think none of the paste functions would be available.
>
> I also see a suggestion that 3rd party clipboard managers sometimes don’t
> play nice with LO.
>
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2019, at 6:09 AM, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks both, but I still seem to be having a problem.
> >
> > I have a file -
> >
> > .... /gnu p&l2018.html
> >
> > If I try to cut and paste the data to a new libreoffice calc file I get
> only 'paste only' as an option under >edit, and nothing else recognisable
> from >insert.
> >
> > I have tried 'insert sheet' under >insert but only get the option to
> insert before or after and then cannot copy the 'new' sheet into an
> existing one, if I add 'after'
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a method of cut and paste directly, afaics.
> >
> > Thanks, Barry
> >
> > On 02/01/2019 17:51, David Carlson wrote:
> >> Finbar,
> >>
> >> You may need to first open a new blank spreadsheet then cut and paste
> from the html document into the spreadsheet rather than trying to directly
> open HTML with Calc.
> >>
> >> My experience with LibreOffice Calc is that it will import several
> different kinds of files.  I use it regularly to convert transaction detail
> exports from a certain department store website to a form from which I can
> manually extract data to enter into GnuCash, although I have not figured
> out how to restructure it to use the CSV importer for that case.
> >>
> >> David C
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:27 AM Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr
> <mailto:mahon.finbar at neuf.fr>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    Hello,
> >>
> >>    I exported a GNUCash report to HTMl, but I don't seem to be able to
> >>    import it to LibreOffice Calc, the LibreOffice xl equivalent.
> >>
> >>    Does anybody know if I must use 'real' MS XL to receive the HTML
> >>    file?
> >>    In LibreOffice you can save calc files in MS format. Are there any
> >>    special tricks for importing?
> >>
> >>    I am using 3.3 on Windows 10.
> >>
> >>    Thanks, Barry
> >>
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