[GNC] Hard-Copy Report Output

[rsbrux]

Thanks for  the tiüp, Vincent, but these things don't add up in the 
flatpak installation.

In the Help - About dialog, GNC_DATA is shown as "/app/share/gnucash", 
which is also the path used in the HTML file.

However, clicking on the link leads to 
"/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/511cf18127561c55b5999121c6b301ca1e90d6cc988a00701257606df7fae86f/files/share/gnucash/" 
which does, in fact, contain a sudirectory "chartjs", which in turn 
contains both "Chart.bundle.min.js" and "Chart.bundle.js".

Evidently the HTML generation doesn't take the possibility of a flatpak 
installation into account.  I suppose I should file a bug for this, but 
I wouldn't know where.

Thnaks for your help!

On 12.06.23 20:20, Vincent Dawans wrote:
> Not that it might solve your underlying issue, but here is a reliable 
> way to locate Chart.bundle.min.js assuming it was installed correctly 
> with the rest of GC. This should work on any OS.
>
> 1. Open GC and go in menu Help - About
> 2. In that dialog window, look for the entry for GNC_DATA. It's the 
> last one in the list. It should point to a directory path, for 
> instance on Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash but 
> it will be different on ubuntu, etc.
> 3. Navigate to that directory using whatever means your OS gives you 
> to do that (File Manager, console, etc). In that directory that 
> GNC_DATA is pointing to, you should find a subdirectory called 
> chartjs. That is where Chart.bundle.min.js should be located and if 
> any html file is pointing to it that ia what the path should be.
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:03 AM rsbrux via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>     > On Jun 11, 2023, at 9:56 AM, Adrien Monteleone
>     <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>     >Is this a completely custom report or just a saved configuration?
>     If completely custom, you may want to try the -dev list.
>
>     This is a report I assembled from the options available in the GC
>     GUI (like the pie chart you successfully tested).
>     Unfortunately, I am not competent to use the programming
>     facilities behind GC's report generation.
>
>
>     > On Jun 11, 2023, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>     >It's most likely a javascript problem. Open the javascript
>     console in your browser and see if there's an error finding
>     Chart.bundle.min.js.
>     >The correct location is
>     <prefix>/share/gnucash/chartjs/Chart.bundle.min.js where <prefix>
>     is where GnuCash is installed: /usr for a Linux package manager
>     installation, /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources for a
>     macOS bundle, C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash for Windows, etc.
>     >
>     >You can fix the link by editing the html file in your favorite
>     text editor.
>
>     I have tried opening the exported HTML reports in Firefox on
>     Ubuntu and in Edge and Firefox on Windows.  Although the browser
>     consoles show errors, I don't see any pertaining to "
>     Chart.bundle.min.js", nor do I find any critical errors pertinent
>     to the report content.
>     The new HTML reports are looking for Chart.bundle.min.js in
>     /app/share/gnucash/chartjs/, but no such directory exists on the
>     Ubuntu system where GnuCash is installed.  In fact, there isn't
>     even an /app/ directory.  Perhaps this is due to GC being
>     installed as a flatpak.
>     Chart.bundle.min.js does not seem to exist on either system, so I
>     edited the HTML as you suggested, replacing the local path with
>     "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/4.3.0/chart.min.js"
>     but this did not improve matters.
>     However, my previously saved HTML reports from GC 2.xx also don't
>     display correctly, even though they contain no references to
>     Chart.bundle.min.js.  This suggests a more fundamental problem and
>     reveals my presumption that the HTML files could be used as
>     archives as naive.
>     I have a previously saved PDF file, which is, of course still
>     usable.  This will be my method going forward, although the lack
>     of a "scale to fit" option in the GC print dialog requires a bit
>     of trial and error to get a satisfactory PDF.
>
>     Many thanks to both of you for your support!
>
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