Thank you very much. That was my next suspicion considering the error notes were concerning dates and since I had just installed several new reports that each came with their own version of that file. Perhaps I ended up with one of the earlier versions.
All is well now. The layout of options is a bit cumbersome, but I suppose there’s not much to be done about it. I’m getting the hang of it anyhow. > On May 15, 2017, at 7:10 PM, Cindy Doughty <[email protected]> wrote: > > looks like you need to download the gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm from the May > 5 posting and place it in the .gnucash folder, the one there appears to be an > older version > > > Doug > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Thank you very much for your work on these new reports. The Transaction > report update and the Transaction by Payee are going to get lots of use I can > see. > > I started trying to play with this Current vs. Average report and I’m having > a heck of a time adjusting the settings in order to get anything to show up. > (It just tells me there was an error, but not what the error was) > > I can say right off, the tabs for Compare and General seem very confusing. > > I can’t tell if one influences the other or not, or where I should set which > time periods and how. > > It seems some options only make sense if other options are set but they don’t > all get grayed out and made inaccessible so I’m not sure. Presently, I’ve > tried many possible combinations of period settings and nothing generates a > report at all, just the non-error error message. > > Any guidance, maybe a simple walk through for a sample comparison report? > > Thanks in advance, > > Adrien > > > > On May 5, 2017, at 10:04 AM, [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 11:04:41 -0400 > > From: Cindy Doughty <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > To: gnucash-user <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Subject: New report - Compare current spending versus historic average > > Message-ID: > > <CAB3Z30y3O7RbFmRdzxWpfJfsxeb2kfw9GguhR=u771a3nqo...@mail.gmail.com > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > This report allows you to pick a time period and then compare it with the > > average > > This report has all of the functionality of the multiple periods side by > > side report, it just adds some additional options. > > > > Place the attached files in the .gnucash folder. On windows this is > > c:\users\YOURID\.gnucash If you already have a config.user file, > > just add the entries > > in this config.user file to it. > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: config.user > > Type: application/octet-stream > > Size: 127 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment.obj > > > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment.obj>> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: current-vs-average.scm > > Type: application/octet-stream > > Size: 156010 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment-0001.obj > > > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment-0001.obj>> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm > > Type: application/octet-stream > > Size: 40114 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment-0002.obj > > > > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20170505/3dd36277/attachment-0002.obj>> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > <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 [email protected] 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.
