Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2008 10:10 schrieb Chris Dennis: > > 5. GIVE THE ABILITY TO EASY CREATE AND IMPORT REPORTS > > - Without knowledge of scheme programming: create the report in another > > format (XML ?), translated in scheme by gnucash. Is it possible ? > > I hate parenthesis! > > Gnucash's current report customising system is a major problem for me too.
It is for many of us. However, the necessary effort to re-write the complete reporting system has still been considered too large compared to the necessary learning curve of using the current one. > I am now in a position to put some work into improving it, but before I > do, I'd like to know if anyone else is working on this area, and whether > there's a road-map or any sort of strategy in place already. And is > there any documentation on the API? The old (old, old) design explanation is in src/doc/design but its general explanation about reports is still valid. One online version here http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/texi/gnucash-design_7.html#SEC112 And there is some (even older) text in src/report/report-system/doc/report-html.txt As for how to access the actual accounts from within the report, unfortunately we don't have a nicely looking API documentation of the available Scheme functions anymore. In general, all C functions for accessing accounts, transactions and so forth are available from Scheme as well. See the doxygen pages for the documentation of the C functions, e.g. here http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/group__Engine.html and http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/group__Account.html and http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/Transaction_8h.html . The SWIG tool will wrap those C functions so that they are available from Scheme as well, although with different spelling: Camel-Case is transformed into dashes. You will have to look into existing reports to see how the function name looks like in Scheme. That's about it. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
