[GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

[Michael Hendry]

> On 8 Apr 2021, at 21:28, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> The location of the saved reports files is OS dependent. Full infor on the
> location sis given at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
> although it takes a bit of sorting through  but I think the saved reports
> are in USER_DATA_HOME.They are on LInux Mint 20. See also
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html#:~:text=Migrating%20financial%20data,desired%20path%20from%20within%20GnuCash%20.
> 
> David Cousens


That’s very helpful, David, thanks.

On my Mac, I found the saved reports here:

~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-2.8

and I’ve produced an alphabetic list of all the reports using gnucash-cli, as recommended by Chris Lam.

Next, I'll clean up duplicate and redundant reports and tidy up inconsistent naming.

Am I right in thinking that I could copy and paste a report's definition from my saved-reports-2.8 file to my successor’s?
START COPY FROM HERE:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Options for saved report "ESJE Transaction Report to 31/10/2019", based on template “2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f”
…

)
FINISH COPY HERE
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Options for saved report "RChBalance Sheet", based on template “c4173ac99b2b448289bf4d11c731af13"

If this is a workable method, I could copy all the report definitions for BookA, BookB and BookC into individual files, ready for copying into SuccessorA, SuccessorB and SuccessorC’s respective saved-reports-2.8 files.

Of course, there could be a fatal flaw in my plan which I am too ignorant to spot…

Regards,

Michael