David,
That's pretty olden--2.4 IIRC!
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Aug 12, 2019, at 7:05 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, John, I was renaming the report in its options page and saving the
> result. I tried both the Save button and the Save As button without success
> (expecting in the latter case to get a second saved report under the new
> name, allowing me to delete the first).
>
> In the olden days, the report title was the controlling aspect of a stored
> report, and I was changing that, expecting it to propagate through. Old
> habits die hard.
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
> On 8/12/2019 11:41 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:23 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel
>>> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sending this to -Dev because of the technical aspect of the problem...
>>>
>>> Over the years, my Saved Reports list had gotten unruly, with various
>>> one-off reports littering the folder. In an effort to figure out which
>>> reports were still valid, I undertook to open every report and delete those
>>> that were no longer useful to me.
>>>
>>> However, the process was long, so I needed some way to flag the reports
>>> that I *had* vetted, and I chose to add an asterisk ("*") to the end of the
>>> report title. This postfix tagging worked fine; the tagged reports showed
>>> up in the list of reports with their new names, and they all ran just fine.
>>>
>>> Now, having completed the process, I no longer need to keep track of which
>>> reports have been checked, and I thought I might remove these tags.
>>> Unfortunately, renaming the report (either by removing the text, or by
>>> adding some other text in its place) doesn't work; the asterisk remains
>>> regardless.
>>>
>>> I realize that I can go into the saved-reports-2.8 file and manually rename
>>> them all, but that seemingly defeats the purpose of a user interface...
>> This is from the "saved report configurations" dialog using the "rename"
>> button that looks like an edit icon?
>>
>> I can add and remove asterisks from a report name there with no issues. It
>> doesn't seem to matter whether I quit GnuCash between edits.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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