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: [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

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

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

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

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