[GNC] Odd Error

[Christopher Lam]

Maybe 2 vs 7 is the account-depth option?
Yes saved-reports-2.8 section will be useful.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 17:13, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Could you explain what the error is telling me with regard to option 7 and
> option 2? Perhaps the error might be refactored to give the user a little
> more context? Like, maybe to say which option is in play?
>
> Furthermore, I'm not sure what you're asking me to provide. Do you want
> the entire section of saved-reports.2-8 for this report? I imagine I could
> locate that...
>
> David
>
>
> On June 25, 2019, at 8:41 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> This warning originates from planned upgrades to options.
>
> If a new date option eg report date "next Easter" is created, the saved
> options will try store its representation, and an older version cannot
> understand it. This error message is meant to handle whereby previously it
> would crash. I'm not sure why it would trigger when upgrading version.
>
> To help investigate please feel free to share the relevant saved-reports
> section... I am sure there's no sensitive data within an asset piechart
> saved-report.
>
>
> On Tue., 25 Jun. 2019, 22:55 D T via gnucash-user, <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m a longtime user on the Mac, now transitioning over to a PC.
>>
>> I copied over my various settings files (alas! Account colors are not
>> among these!) and saved reports files. Gnucash fires up, loads my data, and
>> the “Saved reports configurations” are listed.
>>
>> However, when I try to run one of these reports, I get the following odd
>> error:
>>
>> “This report was saved using a later version of GnuCash. One of the newer
>> multifunction options ‘7’ is not available, fallback to option ‘2’.”
>>
>> This error repeats numerous times (I lost count), after which the report
>> loads.
>>
>> I have no idea which option was using ‘7’, and I do not know what
>> fallback option ‘2’ is.
>>
>> Interestingly, the windows version in which this error occurs is 3.5. The
>> Mac version I had previously was (I believe) 3.4. So, I have a difficult
>> time understanding how this report can have been created in a *later*
>> version of GnuCash.
>>
>> Any insight would be welcome. For fullest clarity, the custom report is
>> based on the Asset Piechart report.
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> David
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