[GNC] Can't seem to load custom reports

[Adrien Monteleone]

cat $TMPDIR/gnucash.trace

will show some info, but as I noted in the first post, not enough to determine which report(s) are the problem.

However, running GnuCash from the terminal like so:

/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug --log gnc.scm=debug

Will generate more info that is useful. The output I included in the first post are from 3 such runs.

This is documented at: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Debugging_your_report

From there, the tracefile is output to stderr which in this case was the same terminal. So I only need to see if the report(s) showed up in the menu, and then checked the terminal each time as I uncommented them one by one in the config-user.scm file.

Each one that has a problem was indicated in the terminal by a ‘failed to compile’ error and noted the info about `gnucash main` not being found. (as well as the `printf` module)

I tried changing from loading `gnucash main` to `gnucash utilities` on a hunch. (no real expectation that would work of course since the referenced code is likely entirely different) That exposed a failure for `printf` which I then commented out, but of course, the later code needs it, so it still failed. I’d have to know what was in `gnucash main` that the report needs as well as how it used `printf` and then re-write all of that. As I don’t yet know Scheme, I’m not able to do so just yet. I was hoping Doug (who published these reports) might have updated them.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Sep 10, 2019 w37d253, at 11:07 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> As you suggest this is likely due to errors in the report code. If so there 
> should be more details either in the gnucash trace file or on the console. I'm 
> not on Macos so I'm not sure where console messages get written for 
> applications that are launched from the gui.
> You may be able to run gnucash in a terminal in which case these message will 
> probably be printed in that terminal.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op dinsdag 10 september 2019 16:39:47 CEST schreef 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.