[GNC] GnuCash 3.7 and Reports

[John Morris]

Hi All,
  I have recently upgraded from Yosemite (macOS 10.10.5) to El Capitan (macOS 10.11.6) and Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) on two different machines. In the process, I have finally taken the leap from GnuCash 2.6.16 into the 3.x series. Until this morning, I was using 3.6 and I am now using 3.7.

  I’m still testing some functions, but it seems to be working reasonably well overall. Today, I’m writing about aspects of the report system, user-contributed reports and invoices.

1. User-contributed reports: Just over a year ago, Doug Doughty contributed several excellent report templates that allowed me to create some very useful reports. I have faithfully moved the contributed files from my old system to my new system, but I am not able to find the reports in the Reports menu. Should they be working? Where should I look for them? It would be a shame to lose all of Doug’s work.

2. Invoices: We have been using GnuCash’s invoicing feature to generate invoices for our business. This worked reasonably well for several years in the 2.6.x series. Unfortunately, both GnuCash 3.6 and 3.7 do less well with invoices. The main problem is that the table grid is no longer padded out to fill the page. This means that invoices with relatively short descriptions in the line items look rather ugly with the table taking up only about half of the width of the page and the information that is supposed to be on the right side sitting in the middle of the page. Additionally, the invoice number now prints at the top left, just below the banner, regardless of what I select in the Options dialog. It used to be printed with the invoice details (which I have placed on the right side).

  Are others experiencing something different from this?

Best,
John