Aha! Thank you. Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM [email protected] [email protected] 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
On 06/14/2018 11:54 AM, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Stephen M. Butler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What is the general policy on changes to reports? Create a new one with >> a new name or update the existing one? >> >> My wife is an accountant and she liked the formatting of the Balance >> Sheet eguile over the standard Balance Sheet report. But she felt it >> was too busy with the totals and sub-totals being annotated and was >> horrified to find the Income Statement buried inside. So, I have hacked >> the code to enhance those two items. >> >> As way of introduction, as I am new to this list. I stated my I.T. life >> as a COBOL developer for the first two decades (along with some hardware >> specific other languages). Then spent a decade as an Oracle DBA with >> the final decade as an I.T. Development Manager with a couple of >> development teams and a DBA in my group. No, I don't know C or C++ nor >> the language I hacked on while "fixing" the balance sheet (eguile) >> report. Nor have I used GIT. >> >> Yes, I am retired (spent the last 12 months no touching any code >> whatsoever) and I am open to being led by the hand if a developer would >> be so kind as to guide this over-the-hill-old-dog! >> >> And yes, I plan to hack the eguile version of the Balance Sheet to >> create a more nicely formatted Income Statement. So, again, is policy >> to update the existing or create a new option on the report list? [My >> personal vote is to keep the list of options low and update existing -- >> but that's my background in software development]. > We're actually working on removing eguile support in favor of proper CSS > stylesheets. That will make it easier to style reports to the user's liking > but will not affect the contents of the report at all. > That doesn't stop you from making an eguile Income Statement report for your > wife's use, just advises that you should be aware that a future version of > GnuCash will break it completely, at which point you'll have to fall back on > the regular income statement report--but if styling is the concern it will be > much easier. > > See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports; there's a somewhat dated > Eguile page linked off of that. > The direct answer to your question is that you should make a new report, with > a new GUID, and install it in your config directory (see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations). That way upgrading > GnuCash won't disturb your customizations. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
