[GNC] Will the reports file "saved-reports-2.8" recreate itself if deleted or moved?

[David Carlson]

Related to Fran3's question 2, are all the reports in one large file or can
a user pick and choose which reports [s]he wants to restore from his or her
archive?

David Carlson

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:00 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have about 40 reports I created for this project and I  would like to
> keep them for future reference.
> > BUT that many reports clutter up the view when retrieving saved report
> configurations...
> > I may not reference these particular reports for a year so I would like
> to  stash them... that is stash  their definitions/configuration file
> "saved-report-2.8" in another folder until I need those particular reports
> again.
> >
> >
> > Question 1: If I move the reports config file saved-report-2.8 to a
> backup folder for future use and then delete it from its normal folder at
> > C:\Users\User-X\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash
> > Will gnuCash recreate a new "saved-report-2.8" file when I re-launch the
> gnuCash App?
> >
> > Question 2: If months down the road I need to recover the
> saved-report-2.8 file that I stashed elsewhere...
> > Can I swap the current saved-report-2.8 file with the one I stashed...
> and visa-versa as needed?
> >
> > Question 3: I made a simple Transaction Report named Test that only
> looked at the checking account. Then I made a copy of saved-report-2.8 and
> looked at it with NotePad++.
> >
> > The text in the file, I assume, consist of instructions used by gnuCash
> to create the report...
> >
> > meaning the contents of saved-report-2.8 is not a language to query the
> gnuCash data... right?
> > Thanks for any help. Fran3
> >
>
> 1. No, unless you create new saved report configs.
> 2. Yes. Just make sure to shut down GnuCash while you're switching the
> files.
> 3. The current version of the file contains the report names and a Scheme
> (that's a computer programming language) representation of the options you
> changed from the default values to create the custom report. You are
> correct that it does not contain queries. Most GnuCash reports work by
> iterating over the accounting objects in memory rather than using the query
> framework.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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