[GNC] Configurable Year Start Day/Month

[john]

I'm not sure I understand your point. Nothing in the Sample report or the Custom Reports wiki page suggests changing the code that makes the options work, just how to use the existing options. Of course you can use GnuCash's existing code as a starting point just like you might use an existing answer on Stack Overflow as a starting point, or study anybody's code to learn ways of doing things. What has that got to do with modifying the internals of a program and expecting your modification to keep working in future versions?

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 20, 2023, at 12:33 AM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Fair enough. The quoted link is not part of a PR, it demonstrates the code, and
> the thread from 2021 has extended into getting the functionality working
> again following subsequent code changes released in V5.
> 
> All scheme reports in GnuCash are internals, interpreted reports, with much
> of the repeatable code like the date options being modular. The Manual,
> wiki, and Sample Report all refer to and use existing reports as examples.
> Customising options is certainly part of customising reports and a
> particular focus of the Sample Report.
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Custom_Reports&oldid=17184#Introduction
>> Unfortunately, at the present time writing a custom report for GnuCash
> requires a little bit of hacking.
> 
> "For help on writing reports... consult the mailing list
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org" didn't offer the guidance I was expecting for
> functionality that was previously working.
> 
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106563.html
> John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> Nope, accounting periods didn't get fixed so everything I said in 2021
>> about that is still true.
>> 
>>> 
>> https://github.com/flywire/gnucash/blob/Fiscal-year/libgnucash/app-utils/date-utilities.scm#L557-L569
>> 
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