To be clear on your answer to question 1...
If I delete or move the file "saved-reports-2.8" gnuCash will recreate it WHEN
I create a new report and save the report configuration... right?
Thanks for the help John.
Fran3
On Monday, November 11, 2019, 10:58:29 PM EST, John Ralls
<jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> I have about 40 reports I created for this project and I would like to keep
> them for future reference.
> BUT that many reports clutter up the view when retrieving saved report
> configurations...
> I may not reference these particular reports for a year so I would like to
> stash them... that is stash their definitions/configuration file
> "saved-report-2.8" in another folder until I need those particular reports
> again.
>
>
> Question 1: If I move the reports config file saved-report-2.8 to a backup
> folder for future use and then delete it from its normal folder at
> C:\Users\User-X\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash
> Will gnuCash recreate a new "saved-report-2.8" file when I re-launch the
> gnuCash App?
>
> Question 2: If months down the road I need to recover the saved-report-2.8
> file that I stashed elsewhere...
> Can I swap the current saved-report-2.8 file with the one I stashed... and
> visa-versa as needed?
>
> Question 3: I made a simple Transaction Report named Test that only looked at
> the checking account. Then I made a copy of saved-report-2.8 and looked at it
> with NotePad++.
>
> The text in the file, I assume, consist of instructions used by gnuCash to
> create the report...
>
> meaning the contents of saved-report-2.8 is not a language to query the
> gnuCash data... right?
> Thanks for any help. Fran3
>
1. No, unless you create new saved report configs.
2. Yes. Just make sure to shut down GnuCash while you're switching the files.
3. The current version of the file contains the report names and a Scheme
(that's a computer programming language) representation of the options you
changed from the default values to create the custom report. You are correct
that it does not contain queries. Most GnuCash reports work by iterating over
the accounting objects in memory rather than using the query framework.
Regards,
John Ralls
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