For reference here is the bug report: 798956 – On Flatpak, broken link to Chart.bundle.min.js in chart report html (gnucash.org) <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798956>
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 1:42 PM Vincent Dawans <dawa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks rsbrux for testing that. It's not working on Flatpak, you are > right. I just tested on flatpak and indeed the link in the html file is > wrong. As soon as I update the html with the full path on my install then > it works. I'll open a bug report on that if there isn't one yet. > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 1:10 PM rsbrux <rsb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the tiüp, Vincent, but these things don't add up in the >> flatpak installation. >> >> In the Help - About dialog, GNC_DATA is shown as "/app/share/gnucash", >> which is also the path used in the HTML file. >> >> However, clicking on the link leads to >> "/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable/511cf18127561c55b5999121c6b301ca1e90d6cc988a00701257606df7fae86f/files/share/gnucash/" >> which does, in fact, contain a sudirectory "chartjs", which in turn >> contains both "Chart.bundle.min.js" and "Chart.bundle.js". >> >> Evidently the HTML generation doesn't take the possibility of a flatpak >> installation into account. I suppose I should file a bug for this, but I >> wouldn't know where. >> >> Thnaks for your help! >> On 12.06.23 20:20, Vincent Dawans wrote: >> >> Not that it might solve your underlying issue, but here is a reliable way >> to locate Chart.bundle.min.js assuming it was installed correctly with the >> rest of GC. This should work on any OS. >> >> 1. Open GC and go in menu Help - About >> 2. In that dialog window, look for the entry for GNC_DATA. It's the last >> one in the list. It should point to a directory path, for instance on >> Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash but it will be >> different on ubuntu, etc. >> 3. Navigate to that directory using whatever means your OS gives you to >> do that (File Manager, console, etc). In that directory that GNC_DATA is >> pointing to, you should find a subdirectory called chartjs. That is where >> Chart.bundle.min.js should be located and if any html file is pointing to >> it that ia what the path should be. >> >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:03 AM rsbrux via gnucash-user < >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >>> > On Jun 11, 2023, at 9:56 AM, Adrien Monteleone < >>> adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >>> >Is this a completely custom report or just a saved configuration? If >>> completely custom, you may want to try the -dev list. >>> >>> This is a report I assembled from the options available in the GC GUI >>> (like the pie chart you successfully tested). >>> Unfortunately, I am not competent to use the programming facilities >>> behind GC's report generation. >>> >>> >>> > On Jun 11, 2023, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >It's most likely a javascript problem. Open the javascript console in >>> your browser and see if there's an error finding Chart.bundle.min.js. >>> >The correct location is >>> <prefix>/share/gnucash/chartjs/Chart.bundle.min.js where <prefix> is where >>> GnuCash is installed: /usr for a Linux package manager installation, >>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources for a macOS bundle, C:\Program >>> Files (x86)\gnucash for Windows, etc. >>> > >>> >You can fix the link by editing the html file in your favorite text >>> editor. >>> >>> I have tried opening the exported HTML reports in Firefox on Ubuntu and >>> in Edge and Firefox on Windows. Although the browser consoles show errors, >>> I don't see any pertaining to " Chart.bundle.min.js", nor do I find any >>> critical errors pertinent to the report content. >>> The new HTML reports are looking for Chart.bundle.min.js in >>> /app/share/gnucash/chartjs/, but no such directory exists on the Ubuntu >>> system where GnuCash is installed. In fact, there isn't even an /app/ >>> directory. Perhaps this is due to GC being installed as a flatpak. >>> Chart.bundle.min.js does not seem to exist on either system, so I edited >>> the HTML as you suggested, replacing the local path with " >>> https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/4.3.0/chart.min.js"; but >>> this did not improve matters. >>> However, my previously saved HTML reports from GC 2.xx also don't >>> display correctly, even though they contain no references to >>> Chart.bundle.min.js. This suggests a more fundamental problem and reveals >>> my presumption that the HTML files could be used as archives as naive. >>> I have a previously saved PDF file, which is, of course still usable. >>> This will be my method going forward, although the lack of a "scale to fit" >>> option in the GC print dialog requires a bit of trial and error to get a >>> satisfactory PDF. >>> >>> Many thanks to both of you for your support! >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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