> On Dec 5, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Bill Manuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am unable to add custom reports to gnucash. > I use Gnucash 3.3 updated from 2.6.19 on windows 8.1. > The custom reports and configuration pages at wiki were my guides to add > custom reports: > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GTK_CONFIG_HOME > > I copied, then opened “Hello-world.scm” , edited the sections as described in > the custom reports link > > 1. change define-module line > 2. change name line > 3. commented out the menu-name line > 4. changed menu-tip line > 5. got and pasted in a guid > 6. and saved it under a new name. > > In addition, I coped a report at github > (https://github.com/dschwen/gnucash-reports/blob/master/psl-budget.scm) > > I created a file in MSWord saved as config.user (then, as an alternative when > the process failed) config-user.scm containing the lines: > > (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "psl-budget.scm")) > (load (gnc-build-userdata-path "my-hello-world-.scm")) > > and placed both the config file and custom.scm reports in the > gnc_data_home/gnc_config_home folder which the configuration page indicated, > for windows, was > > C:/user/myusername/appdate/roaming/gnucash. > > After doing all this, I started gnucash but neither of the customer reports > showed up in the menus. > > Don’t know if this is relevant, but the wiki-config page indicated what files > are in GTK_config_home. My GTK_config_home (appdata/local/gtk3.0) is empty. > > If someone can help, it would be appreciated.
Did you make sure to tell MSWord to save the files as plain ASCII (not UTF8!) text? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
