Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-19 Thread Christopher Lam
Use Account Substring Matcher as the account selector (*cough*) This changes the execution of saved-reports, so, will never be acceptable for merging in. modified gnucash/report/standard-reports/transaction.scm @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ be excluded from periodic reporting.") ;; Accounts options

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Christopher Lam writes: > With regard to selecting a 'wildcard' type of accounts selection, it's > a good entry-level idea for a budding scheme hacker :) I think it would require significantly more work than that, but I'd love to be proven wrong! > Please remember to CC this list on all your re

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Crypto MR writes: > If I set up a report, let's say the balance sheet report, I usually > want to see all accounts in this report. Each time I later add another > account, I have to adjust the report settings for the 'saved > reports'. Is there any way I could modify the report settings with a >

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread David Carlson
I have not migrated to release 3.x yet, so I have not seen that new Transaction Report (General / Add options summary) yet. I hope it includes a list of selected accounts, name and path for the data file, and, if possible any other details such as last file save time and whatever else to try to cr

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread Christopher Lam
There's mechanism for printing report settings, but it's only enabled in the Transaction Report (General / Add options summary). Import/Export of settings is more difficult because many options are datafile-specific eg selection of accounts, report currency. The current saved-reports mechanism

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Nice. On all counts. This might also address some recent list topics about migrating from one OS to another. If the report settings were exportable/importable, via an app function, that would make things easier and allay some concerns. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 18, 2018, at 3:42 PM, David Carls

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread David Carlson
On that subject, I would like to see a way to document the current settings of a report, perhaps by including it as an appendix to the report printout. Then I would like to see a way to export and import settings from one data file to another. David C On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:58 PM Adrien Monte

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That would be a very useful option. I’ve noticed the same problem myself. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 18, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Crypto MR wrote: > > If I set up a report, let's say the balance sheet report, I usually want to > see all accounts in this report. Each time I later add another account, I

[GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread Crypto MR
If I set up a report, let's say the balance sheet report, I usually want to see all accounts in this report. Each time I later add another account, I have to adjust the report settings for the 'saved reports'. Is there any way I could modify the report settings with a wildcard, so each time I r