[GNC] Will the reports file "saved-reports-2.8" recreate

[David T.]

David, 

It's one file: saved-reports-2.8.

You can easily parse the text that is contained in this file and isolate individual report customizations.  Cutting and pasting the complete content of one of these segments, you can port them around (although the changes in data files will render this approach largely pointless).
David T. 

 
 
  On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:36, David Carlson<david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:   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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