> On Feb 22, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all > > I admire what you are trying to do and wish to support you with some feedback. > > My usecase: "We want to see whats happening to our money." > > I downloaded and installed gnucash a couple of days ago because the need > arose to manage our accounts. After connecting to online banking services and > downloading all our transactions I got everything working perfectly. > AWESOME!! Problem solved I thought as I proceeded to the reporting to pull > out some data for my partner... > > What a disappointment. The stock reports are imo ugly and inadequate for our > use case. We are interested in cash flow and the editing options for this > report are minimal. Very minimal. > > Being a qualified programmer I investigated the options for customising our > reports somehow. I quickly found the answer to all of my reporting woes. I > have to learn not one, but two obscure programming langages, namely > guile/eguile and scheme. > > In conclusion: I can't be bothered. I will have a look for something else > that can output beautiful, professional and, if necessary, customizable > reports. > > I will report back with my findings if you like.
Actually, Guile and Scheme are the same language. You might consider the SQL backend; one variant, SQLite3 requires no server. Using that instead of the default XML backend will allow you to query the database with standard SQL tools and use a SQL-based report writer to generate prettier reports. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
