[GNC] Any reason reports are not stored in gnucash file ?

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 2025-10-13 12:03, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user wrote:
>> On Oct 13, 2025, at 10:43, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> The original idea was by storing the saved report configs
>> separately they could be applied to more than one book as long
>> as the account names were either not customized or  the same
>> in both books. We broke the latter half of that assumption in
>> 3.x by using the account guids instead of names because users
>> complained that the saved configs broke when they changed an
>> account name.

> This suggests that there is no benefit to storing report configs
> separately, right?>
> What is required to store them in each book?  Does an export/import
> config option make sense for transferring them between books?

Rather than store them in the book (main data file), why not in the GCM
file, which already holds configurations of registers, the general
journal, and the Accounts tab? That information is already on a per-book
basis, one GCM file per book file. And then there would be no collision
with the data file's present auto-save logic.

Or the saved report configurations could be stored in a {book}.reports
file in the books directory. Then import and export would require no
code at all; the user would simply copy {book1.reports} to {book2}.reports.

Stan Brown
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