Related to Fran3's question 2, are all the reports in one large file or can a user pick and choose which reports [s]he wants to restore from his or her archive?
David Carlson On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:00 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have about 40 reports I created for this project and I would like to > keep them for future reference. > > BUT that many reports clutter up the view when retrieving saved report > configurations... > > I may not reference these particular reports for a year so I would like > to stash them... that is stash their definitions/configuration file > "saved-report-2.8" in another folder until I need those particular reports > again. > > > > > > Question 1: If I move the reports config file saved-report-2.8 to a > backup folder for future use and then delete it from its normal folder at > > C:\Users\User-X\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash > > Will gnuCash recreate a new "saved-report-2.8" file when I re-launch the > gnuCash App? > > > > Question 2: If months down the road I need to recover the > saved-report-2.8 file that I stashed elsewhere... > > Can I swap the current saved-report-2.8 file with the one I stashed... > and visa-versa as needed? > > > > Question 3: I made a simple Transaction Report named Test that only > looked at the checking account. Then I made a copy of saved-report-2.8 and > looked at it with NotePad++. > > > > The text in the file, I assume, consist of instructions used by gnuCash > to create the report... > > > > meaning the contents of saved-report-2.8 is not a language to query the > gnuCash data... right? > > Thanks for any help. Fran3 > > > > 1. No, unless you create new saved report configs. > 2. Yes. Just make sure to shut down GnuCash while you're switching the > files. > 3. The current version of the file contains the report names and a Scheme > (that's a computer programming language) representation of the options you > changed from the default values to create the custom report. You are > correct that it does not contain queries. Most GnuCash reports work by > iterating over the accounting objects in memory rather than using the query > framework. > > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
