I do: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Custom_Reports&action=history but docs need some level of overview by Subject Matter Experts or they become social media.
There are breaking changes in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/5.0 Report and Book Options > > - This major change will affect everyone who has written custom > reports in Guile Scheme. > - The report and book options code has been completely rewritten in > C++ with SWIG providing Guile Scheme access for reports. The new design > requires directly registering options with for example > gnc-optiondb-register-string-option instead of calling > gnc:make-string-option to create an option followed by gnc:register-option > to insert it in the report's options. > - Value access is also changed: Instead of retrieving an option and > then querying or setting its value with gnc:option-value one will query the > optiondb with gnc-option-value, the arguments to which are the optiondb, > the section, and the option name. > - Supporting the new options backend the options dialog code in > gnc-dialog-options, gnc-business-options, and the new gnc-option-gtk-ui > have also been rewritten in C++. > > Reflecting on the changes I made to https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/5.0/gnucash/report/reports/example/sample-report.scm to incorporate these changes, despite being checked by John Ralls, I don't understand them in the context of the release comments. I very much followed the approach in the wiki of finding something similar in an existing report and copy/adapt it. Why is there still a lot of "gnc:" in reports? Is sample-report still using code that is to be depreciated? As I see it the page needs (note 2 & 3 highlighted, might only require a paragraph in each to explain the changes): 1. all content prior to V5 removed with an introductory comment for previous version linking to https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Custom_Reports&oldid=21469 (I'll do this after 24hrs if there are no objections) 2. * update https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#The_Options-Generator * 3. * update https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#The_Report-Renderer * 4. fix reports example prototype bug: gnc:optname-reportname - I have no idea why it doesn't work 5. points 2 & 3 should allow anyone to fix the rest of https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Designing_new_Reports Other comments: The guide is so Linux-focused that most of it is non-functional in Windows (debugging, API, adding menu items): 1. I'm not clear on using https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#The_GnuCash_API but clearly, that saves the need for an existing report example. I'd like to see the API demonstrated as an MWE (eg point 4 above), preferably using the V5 breaking changes. 2. particularly https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Technique_to_reload_reports_without_restarting_GnuCash and all of https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#The_GnuCash_API btw, Maybe the menu item Help, About GnuCash Needs a link directly to the reports folder. On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 at 08:06, Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have no wiki account? > > Am 03.04.23 um 05:04 schrieb flywire: > > Can someone update https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports to > provide > > for the changes in V5? > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
