[GNC] Saved Reports accross several PCs

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 2024-05-19 09:35, David Long wrote:
> I am running gnucash on more than one PCs. When I create report on one PC I
> find I have create that report on other PC even though they are both
> pulling in data from the same file. Is there anything I can do to not have
> recreate these reports?.

Sure -- synchronize the saved reports file between computers. Since I
don't know which version of GC and which operating system you're using I
can't be more specific about where to find that file, but this document
will guide you:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#USER_DATA_HOME
Caution: make sure GnuCash is not running on either computer when you
synchronize.

> Also, I am using Gnucash for 2 different organisations so data is saved
> under two different file names. If I create a report for one organisation
> it also shows up when I load the file for the other organisation even
> though it is not relevant the other.
> Is there away to eliminate this issue?

Saved reports are a per-user setting, not a per-book setting. The only
way I know to make saved reports invisible to the "wrong" organization
is to set up one user account for each organization; then they will each
have their private sets of reports. (Of course, you'll now have two
report files to synchronize across your multiple PCs.)

A simpler way to solve this problem is to prefix a short string to each
report's name when you save it. When I was keeping books for the
Tehachapi Symphony, I prefixed each report name with either "TSO_" or
"SB_" so that I could easily select the one I wanted, and I had no need
to create an extra user account.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com/