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For now, I will keep my focus on the non-technical part :) and stick to the Excel option ... Thanks for the help Sachin On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:25 AM Klaus Dahlke <[email protected]> wrote: > Alternative is to use a database (mysql, postgres, SQLite) and e.g. > libreoffice as GUI frontend for reporting/dataretrieval. Clearly, still > some basic SQL know might be required. > > Cheers, > Klaus > > On Wed, 1 May 2019 00:57:50 -0500 > Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Unless you’re up for learning SQL, there is an easier path if all you > want are pretty reports. > > > > You can copy/paste reports to a spreadsheet and manipulate from there. > > > > You can get part of the way to a ‘dashboard’ with the multi-column > report. Look into it. > > > > Otherwise, probably an intermediate step would be to use the SQlite > backend paired with piecash for your report queries. > > > > Maintaining and setting up a MySQL db is certainly more involved. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > > On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:07 PM, Sachin Danave <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am not a programmer and have been using MS Money for years. While I > love > > > the Gnucash features, I miss the MS Money colorful reports (and yes a > > > beautiful dashboard). > > > > > > I came across a post (I think it was Reddit) that suggests that you can > > > save Gnucash file to a MySQL database and then use an external > > > reporting tool to generate custom reports. > > > > > > Has anyone tried this ? How difficult it is assuming no programming > > > knowledge ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > Sachin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
