That is interesting.
If I am not mistaken, you can presently put a *custom* report in any
directory as long as you tell the config-usr.scm file where they are.
(note, *custom* means an entirely separate report template, not just a
saved-configuration, these would be reports that aren't in the default
GnuCash installation at all.)
With that in mind, consider what might seem like a complication at
first, but would perhaps be more versatile to cover more use cases:
Presently, the saved-configurations are saved in a single Scheme file
labeled "saved-reports-2.8". It is simply the various preferences for
each report listed one after the other, by report. (easily viewable in
any basic text editor)
I propose, those be stored in individual files per report with either
the book file, the gcm, or a book-tied 'saved-configurations' file
pointing to them *wherever they may reside in the file tree*. (just like
Custom Reports)
This would allow easy copying of preferences -per report- to other
books. (You may want the same P&L prefs for two books, but not the other
configs)
Things could be kept tidy with a default folder for them, but ideally,
the user should be able to store them anywhere, like they can with
Custom Reports.
These individual pref files for saved-configurations could either be
stored in the default config directory or with the Book files, at the
user's discretion since they will be pointed to regardless.
It would also be nice if these were XML or JSON so as to be a bit more
accessible to us mere mortals than Scheme, but I certainly appreciate
that might be asking too much. I don't speak Scheme, but looking at the
present saved-reports file, I can at least get a sense of what is going
on generally. (I'm guessing if the format were not Scheme, something
would have to translate them a bit rather than just 'insert/include' as
is likely happening now, or that insertion/include code would have to be
more complicated than it is presently.)
Regards,
Adrien
On 10/13/25 6:13 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
Rather than store them in the book (main data file), why not in the GCM
file, which already holds configurations of registers, the general
journal, and the Accounts tab? That information is already on a per-book
basis, one GCM file per book file. And then there would be no collision
with the data file's present auto-save logic.
Or the saved report configurations could be stored in a {book}.reports
file in the books directory. Then import and export would require no
code at all; the user would simply copy {book1.reports} to {book2}.reports.
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