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

[Michael Hendry]

> On 9 Apr 2021, at 09:57, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Michael
> I have to confess I don't know if you can edit the saved-reports-2.8 file.
> As it is a text file, it should be OK. I would keep a copy of the original
> just in case.  It may be worth taking a good look at the first and last
> entries so you can establish the formatting.  That looks like it would work
> from a look at my copy of it
> David


Thanks, David.

My plan is to make a virgin installation of Gnucash on my wife’s Windows 10 laptop (which will never actually be used for GNC work) copy BookA.gnucash across, and then edit saved-reports-2.8 to include one of the BookA-specific custom reports.

If I get away with that, I’ll copy all my BookA-specific custom reports, and check them out.

Thinking about my 11-year learning-curve for GNC, I also have to think about the possibility of exporting GNC books in a form that could be imported by one of the commercial bookkeeping programs so that my successor would hit the ground running with familiar software. (Shocking disloyalty, I realise, but we have to be pragmatic about such things!).

Regards

Michael