> On 8 Apr 2021, at 10:36, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Michael > First, good luck and hope all goes well. > Second, you can 'describe' a custom report by the following process. This > uses the gnucash-cli tool. > > $gnucash-cli -R list > > This will list all built-in and saved reports, the latter denoted by a 'C'. > e.g. > > * Account Summary > * Advanced Portfolio > * C Annual Report for Accountant Chris AU > * Assets > * Assets Over Time > * Australian Tax Invoice > > $gnucash-cli -R show --name "Annual Report for Account Chris AU" > > This describes the report and the options used. e.g. > > * name: Annual Report for Accountant Chris AU > guid: 49b7979123564c5e944586db82a123e8 > parent-template: Transaction Report > Display / Num: Disabled > Display / Memo: Disabled > Sorting / Show Full Account Name: Enabled > Sorting / Secondary Subtotal for Date Key: none > Sorting / Show Account Description: Enabled > Sorting / Secondary Key: date > Sorting / Primary Key: account-code > Accounts / Accounts: null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, > null, null > Filter / Account Name Filter: ^1 > > The reason the accounts are null is because the datafile isn't loaded. > > HTH
Thanks, Christopher, That’s an excellent starting point - I’ve been accumulating a lot of custom reports, several of which are duplicates or near duplicates, and this will help me to cull the redundant ones. I think if I rename the reports so that they start with" Book-A”, "Book-B” etc it’ll be clear to whoever is filling in for me which reports relate to his/her organisation, so the one file could be shared by all. Is it possible to merge a set of custom reports into an existing Gnucash installation? What I’m thinking is that I would copy BookX.gnucash along with my .gnucash directory and its contents into ~/Dropbox/BookX and send a Dropbox link to the nominated BookX bookkeeper. This bookkeeper would have to have the appropriate version of Gnucash installed for his/her operating system, and be given appropriate instructions on how to deal with the Dropbox files. Does this sound feasible? Incidentally, gnucash-cli isn’t in my PATH, so I had to run it from: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.