[GNC] CLI Report Running

[Sherlock]

I suppose you could do that, if you know what your doing, via the 
saved-reports-2.8 file.

On 11/8/25 4:20 PM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
> I was hoping there would be a way to specify the id as a variable/parameter so I can have a script generate 20 or 30 statements.
> 
> Nov 8, 2025 18:59:43 Sherlock <sh025622 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> My assumption would be the customer must identified in the saved report along with any other desired parameters.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sherlock
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/25 2:14 PM, Alan Johnson via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> How did you specify the customer id?
>>> Nov 8, 2025 16:58:38 Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com>:
>>> Hi I had the same issue needing the report in PDF so I just scripted it to run the report in HTML and then just convert that to PDF
>>>>
>>>> --output-file myreport.html
>>>>
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>>>> *From:* gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gfowler1=outlook.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Alan Johnson via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 8, 2025 3:44 PM
>>>> *To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> *Subject:* [GNC] CLI Report Running
>>>>    Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to run some reports from the CLI, however I am having some
>>>> trouble understanding the documentation.
>>>>
>>>> I want to run a "customer report".
>>>>
>>>> I have the following command working:
>>>>
>>>> gnucash-cli -R run --name "Customer Report" --output-file test1
>>>> Troop892.gnucash
>>>>
>>>> Running with "show" isn't helpful, I would have expected it to list
>>>> particular parameters for the report.
>>>>
>>>> gnucash-cli -R show --name "Customer Report" --output-file test1
>>>> Troop892.gnucash
>>>>
>>>> * name: Customer Report
>>>> guid: c146317be32e4948a561ec7fc89d15c1
>>>>
>>>> Some deprecated features have been used. Set the environment
>>>> variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the
>>>> program to get more information. Set it to "no" to suppress
>>>> this message.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It wants a customer ID, but I don't see any way to enter that as a
>>>> parameter. How do I add that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like it to make PDFs if possible as well, but when I attempt
>>>> that, I get the following message:
>>>>
>>>> gnucash-cli -R run --name "Customer Report" --export-type pdf --output-
>>>> file test1.pdf Troop892.gnucash
>>>> Only the following reports have export code:
>>>> * Assets Over Time
>>>> * Expense Over Time
>>>> * Income and GST Statement
>>>> * Income/Expense Chart
>>>> * Income & Expense Linechart
>>>> * Income Over Time
>>>> * Liabilities Over Time
>>>> * Net Worth Barchart
>>>> * Net Worth Linechart
>>>> * Tax Schedule Report/TXF Export
>>>> Use -R show to describe report
>>>>
>>