On 02/22/2015 05:48 PM, John Ralls wrote:
On Feb 22, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Paul <p.matth...@inbox.com> wrote:
Hello all
I admire what you are trying to do and wish to support you with some feedback.
My usecase: "We want to see whats happening to our money."
I downloaded and installed gnucash a couple of days ago because the need arose
to manage our accounts. After connecting to online banking services and
downloading all our transactions I got everything working perfectly. AWESOME!!
Problem solved I thought as I proceeded to the reporting to pull out some data
for my partner...
What a disappointment. The stock reports are imo ugly and inadequate for our
use case. We are interested in cash flow and the editing options for this
report are minimal. Very minimal.
Being a qualified programmer I investigated the options for customising our
reports somehow. I quickly found the answer to all of my reporting woes. I have
to learn not one, but two obscure programming langages, namely guile/eguile and
scheme.
In conclusion: I can't be bothered. I will have a look for something else that
can output beautiful, professional and, if necessary, customizable reports.
I will report back with my findings if you like.
Actually, Guile and Scheme are the same language.
You might consider the SQL backend; one variant, SQLite3 requires no server.
Using that instead of the default XML backend will allow you to query the
database with standard SQL tools and use a SQL-based report writer to generate
prettier reports.
Regards,
John Ralls
That is a great idea John - SQL report generation is quite a flexible
solution.
Bob G
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