[GNC] Export as text or CSV

[Fred Tydeman]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 5:00 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

>
> On 2022-06-05 15:19, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> > Is there a way to export either the Accounts main screen or an Accounts
> > Summary report as either a plain text file or a CSV file?
> >
> > The best I have found so far is Select via mouse the text on the multiple
> > screens,
> > then Ctrl-C to copy to clipboard, then Ctrl-V to paste into a file in an
> > editor.
> > Unfortunately, that process ends up wrapping lines (to perhaps 80
> > characters).
>
> Isn't there an editor command to set line length? I'll bet if you set
> line length to a large number before pasting, the lines won't wrap.
>

The editor has an "unlimited" line length.
My guess is the clipboard has the line length issue.


> I don't know which release of GC you have, but in 2.6.19 I can click
> into the Accounts tab, then click File » Export » Export Account Tree to
> CSV. I don't suppose that capability would have been removed from later
> releases.
>

Still there.  But that export has no account values.