[GNC] Custom reports don't survive upgrade to v3

[Christopher Lam]

Hi Macho
There were API changes between 2.x and 3.x, and there'll be further ones
from 3.x and 4.x
Perhaps you'd be kind to post your custom .scm files on bugzilla, and the
stack traces?


On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 01:50, Macho Philipovich <macho.p at riseup.net> wrote:

> Dear gnucash users,
>
> I decided to upgrade from the long-term support version of Ubuntu to the
> current stable version this weekend.
>
> This change, I would later learn, entailed upgrading gnucash from
> v2.6.19 to v3.4.
>
> The upgrade went fine, except that none of my four or five custom
> reports work any more.
>
> They mostly don't give any helpful error information but just show:
>
>     *Report error*
>     An error occurred while running the report.
>
> One of the reports does, however, give some sort of stack trace, though
> it's not terribly instructive either.
>
> It's been quite a while since I've looked at any of this, so revisions
> currently feel a bit daunting, but I do rely significantly on these
> custom reports.
>
> If anyone could point me to any resources on the changes to the reports
> API since v2 and to any debugging resources, it would also be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> The reports are my own creations, except that one is an extremely
> helpful year-to-date budget report that Phil Longstaff (in cc) provided
> me some time ago over this list in a file he called ytd-budget.scm.
> Phil, if by chance you've revised your report, I'd greatly appreciate a
> copy. And I would very much +1 this report becoming part of the standard
> reports provided within gnucash.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Macho
>
>
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