[GNC] Hard-Copy Report Output

[John Ralls]

/app is an alias for that long path when you're running inside the flatpak shell, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Using_Command_Line_Tools. Unless you also run a browser in the same flatpak shell--installing the browser with flatpak won't work, that will create a different container--the browser can't see the alias. I don't know offhand if there's a way for GnuCash to tell that it's running inside a flatpak or to get the outside-the-flatpak path to /app, but even if it could the URI would get invalidated the next time you update the GnuCash flatpak.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jun 12, 2023, at 1:10 PM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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