Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-07 Thread Steve
Fred Bone wrote > Perhaps it's objecting to the MS-DOS-style line endings, that Notepad > will have helpfully put there for you? > > If you put a file there with one line containing just a semicolon and it > still won't run, then that's the problem. Thanks, Fred. The file that's causing the

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Bone
On 3 October 2017 at 19:16, Steve said: > Color me clueless, well, almost... > > Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. > > So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports > sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by > opening up each one, copying

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-04 Thread Steve
Color me clueless, well, almost... Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash. So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by opening up each one, copying the contents, then pasting the contents to a new file I

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-03 Thread gbguy
SUCCESS!! The author provided the key missing piece of information. When running the Budget+ report you have to specify in its "General" report option which "Stylesheet" to use. Specify the "Budget" stylesheet and everything is golden. Once I was told what to do it made perfect sense :-) --

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-03 Thread gbguy
Larry, I'd greatly appreciate any assistance. I looked to see if the stylesheet was misnamed or if the "load" directive had a syntax error, but could see nothing wrong. I also looked at the stylesheet .scm file but I don't know what to look for. I will say the author very clearly identified the

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-02 Thread Larry
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy TabĀ® S Original message From: gbguy <eree...@mailup.net> Date: 2017-10-02 16:02 (GMT-08:00) To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability Well, idiot here figured out the primary prob

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-02 Thread gbguy
Well, idiot here figured out the primary problem. I had File Explorer's View option inadvertently set to hide file extensions. The two files I downloaded actually had .txt extensions (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-) I renamed the files and successfully ran a

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-02 Thread gbguy
Well, idiot here figured out the major part of the problem. I unknowingly had File Explorer's View set to hide "file name extensions" and my files were actually named with a .txt extension (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-)I changed the file names and have

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-02 Thread gbguy
Well, idiot here figured out the primary problem. I had File Explorer's View option inadvertently set to hide file extensions. The two files I downloaded actually had .txt extensions (e.g., budget-plus.scm.txt). Yet another reason to dislike Windows :-) I renamed the files and successfully

Re: budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

2017-10-01 Thread gbguy
azalea4va, Your report addresses many of the issues I've had as a new user of the gnucash budget reports. However, I have not been able to successfully install your report. I'm assuming that it will show up under Reports -> Budget as "Budget+ Report", but I cannot see it there or anywhere else