Rather than dive into Scheme programming with a completely new report, I’d like to try editing an existing report to provide a little customisation.
I’m looking at the experimental report balsheet-pnl.scm by Christopher Lam, which I found here on my Mac… /Applications/Gnucash 3.8.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports …and I would make a start by replacing the Footer text defined at line 47 et seqq: (define FOOTER-TEXT (gnc:make-html-text (_ "WARNING: Foreign currency conversions, and unrealized gains calculations are not confirmed correct. This report may be modified without notice. Bug reports are very welcome at https://bugs.gnucash.org/";))) First off, I plan to make a copy of the existing file, naming it MH_balsheet-pnl.scm (“MH” being my initials). Now I’ll edit the text of the Footer - let’s say I replace the existing text as follows: (define FOOTER-TEXT (gnc:make-html-text (_ “MH - experimental report 2020-03-23"))) [In the longer run, I’d plan to modify the text of the report to use “Revenue & Expenditure” in place of “Income and Expense”] In other programming environments I would simply save the edited file and run it, but I can see a few pitfalls! Line 28 reads: (define-module (gnucash report standard-reports balsheet-pnl)) which should presumably be changed, e.g. to: (define-module (gnucash report standard-reports MH_balsheet-pnl)) After that, I think it should be plain sailing until line 1340: (define balsheet-reportname (_ "Balance Sheet (Multicolumn)")) (define pnl-reportname (_ "Income Statement (Multicolumn)")) (gnc:define-report 'version 1 'name balsheet-reportname 'report-guid "065d5d5a77ba11e8b31e83ada73c5eea" 'menu-path (list gnc:menuname-experimental) 'options-generator (lambda () (multicol-report-options-generator 'balsheet)) 'renderer (lambda (rpt) (multicol-report-renderer rpt 'balsheet))) (gnc:define-report 'version 1 'name pnl-reportname 'report-guid "0e94fd0277ba11e8825d43e27232c9d4" 'menu-path (list gnc:menuname-experimental) 'options-generator (lambda () (multicol-report-options-generator 'pnl)) 'renderer (lambda (rpt) (multicol-report-renderer rpt 'pnl))) I expect there would be scope for confusion if I didn’t change lines 1340-1 - say prefixing “MH_” to the definitions, but I’m not sure about the options-generator and renderer lines. uuidgen on my Mac issues 36-character uuids, with hyphens and uppercase, like this: 47170C69-F87E-4A3B-9A97-8B97F56F5DFD Would I need to edit them to give 32-character lowercase uuids, lacking hyphens? Obviously, I have to take responsibility for my own programming experiments (and errors), but I’d appreciate a quick steer from someone with Scheme experience. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
