[GNC] Date error running report from gnucash-cli, report runs fine in GUI

[William Starrs]

Hello Jeff, I am au courant with Python (le Python c'est bon!)  Thank you
for that suggestion, I will give it a try.

To be clear, all of the date filtering combinations that I tried were part
of the saved report configurations, I was not trying to provide any
parameters via command line other than to run the saved report as-is.

Bill

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:36 AM Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi William
>
> Based on my interpretation of the gnucash-cli --help text, and this
> Reddit forum post, I don't think that it is possible to pass date
> parameters to reports from the command line.
>
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/comments/mf834b/how_to_use_gnucashcliexe_on_windows_to_run_a/
>
> If you are au courant with Python you could probably achieve a
> transaction list for a custom date range fairly easily using PieCash:
>
> https://github.com/sdementen/piecash
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 21/09/2022 9:38 am, William Starrs wrote:
> > Update:  I tried also setting a fixed Start Date and end of "Today", as
> > well as a fixed start and end date.  All configurations give the same
> > error.  Again, no error in the GUI.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 3:27 PM William Starrs <wjstarrsiii at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to script a report that will show me all transactions on
> >> credit cards since their last closing date.  I'll maintain closing dates
> >> outside of Gnucash.  I have the report set to show me all transactions
> >> since the start of the previous quarter (so it is rolling) through
> today.
> >> I would then filter out transactions prior to the closing date in
> >> post-processing.
> >>
> >> The report runs fine in the GUI, but when I try to run from gnucash-cli
> I
> >> get the following error:
> >>
> >>      ERROR <gnc.engine.sx> Bad End Date: Invalid or before Start Date
> >>
> >> The -R show command shows options regarding the dates that ought to
> work:
> >>
> >> General / Start Date: relative . start-prev-quarter
> >> General / End Date: relative . today
> >>
> >> So I can't think of a situation where the start of previous quarter
> would
> >> be missing or before today.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
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