[GNC] Can't seem to load custom reports

[John Morris]

Hi Adrien,
  I worked my way through the GnuCash wiki on loading custom reports at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Where_to_find_existing_reports. I made a tiny bit of headway, but not much.

  I have set up a new file called config-user.scm in ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash on my fully updated Mojave system. This replaced the filed called config.user I copied from my Yosemite installation running GnuCash 2.6.16.

  As part of following the instruction on the wiki, I copied the Hello World report from the GnuCash application package and modified it slightly to be different from the example report. I then placed it in ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash/John Report and added 

(load (gnc-build-userdata-path "John-Report.scm”))

as the first line of config-user.scm. This loaded a report called John Report into the top level of the Reports menu, so I know I at least have that part working.

However, using a similar line in the config-user.scm file for the reports I downloaded from this list gives me nothing in the Reports menu. In fact, if I place those lines before the John-Report line, even it does not appear. I guess some problem in those other reports is terminating the whole loading process. That seems like an odd way of doing things. I tried this singly with each report an none of them worked, including the consolidation report Doug Doughty contributed on June 4, 2018 as an update to work with GnuCash 3.1.

I guess I have to wait until I have time to learn Scheme or someone else updates these reports to work with GnuCash’s ever-changing interface.

Best,
John

> On Sep 9, 2019, at 5:57 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> I didn’t get to test #1 & #2 again, but sticking with #3, I started GnuCash with
> 
> --debug --log gnc.scm=debug
> 
> And got some useful info.
> 
> It seems all but one of the reports were using:
> 
> (use-modules (gnucash main))
> 
> which apparently doesn’t exist any more.
> 
> The one report that did work was using:
> 
> (use-modules (gnucash utilities))
> 
> I haven’t had a look yet to see what the changes were and what that includes.
> 
> The other failing reports also use:
> 
> (use-modules (gnucash printf))
> 
> which apparently also doesn’t exist and was commented out in the one working report.
> 
> Unfortunately, the code for those reports would have to be updated it seems to avoid those modules as they fail with them commented out. (understandably)
> 
> The following loads and runs correctly:
> 
> consolidate-transactions.scm
> 
> The following all fail and need to be updated:
> 
> compare-cash-flows.scm
> current-vs-average.scm
> transaction-budget.scm
> reconcile.scm (supposedly a re-write, was this already incorporated into the included report?)
> missing-checks.scm (I don’t use this, but noticed it failed as well)
> 
> If anyone has any info on fixing the above reports with respect to the main & printf modules, or where I might find more current versions, many thanks.