> On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:23 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel
> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Sending this to -Dev because of the technical aspect of the problem...
>
> Over the years, my Saved Reports list had gotten unruly, with various one-off
> reports littering the folder. In an effort to figure out which reports were
> still valid, I undertook to open every report and delete those that were no
> longer useful to me.
>
> However, the process was long, so I needed some way to flag the reports that
> I *had* vetted, and I chose to add an asterisk ("*") to the end of the report
> title. This postfix tagging worked fine; the tagged reports showed up in the
> list of reports with their new names, and they all ran just fine.
>
> Now, having completed the process, I no longer need to keep track of which
> reports have been checked, and I thought I might remove these tags.
> Unfortunately, renaming the report (either by removing the text, or by adding
> some other text in its place) doesn't work; the asterisk remains regardless.
>
> I realize that I can go into the saved-reports-2.8 file and manually rename
> them all, but that seemingly defeats the purpose of a user interface...
This is from the "saved report configurations" dialog using the "rename" button
that looks like an edit icon?
I can add and remove asterisks from a report name there with no issues. It
doesn't seem to matter whether I quit GnuCash between edits.
Regards,
John Ralls
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