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

[D.]

I'll jump in just to say that it is perfectly fine to copy and paste saved report configurations into and out of saved-reports-2.8. For a while, I had a strange problem where my reports file kept being truncated, and I had to copy in my reports numerous times. I've also heard of a user who scripted the startup process to include copying a book-specific set of report configurations into the proper location, so that the reports listed in a given file only applied to that file. 

The only warning is to be sure of what you cut and paste; the contents of the file are pretty opaque, and it's easy for my eyes to glaze over and copy too little or too much...

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri Apr 09 05:48:54 EDT 2021
To: David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

> 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

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