Steve, Adrien, thanks again. I think I shall have a look at hacking the source for the default invoice. It's important to me to keep my bookkeeper's life as easy as possible during this transition. Fortunately, we have a very simple business with very few clients, and virtually all the work is the same kind of service-based thing, so I should have no difficulty creating a build-specific default that "just works" for our needs. Then I'll wait till some of these RFEs are acted on and the world will continue to improve :)
As a side question, Adrien, you commented that one of my replies had been delayed. I notice there seem to be two distinct (although similar) email addresses for the list: gnucash-user@gnucash.org and gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org. Evidently they end up in the same place, but is one or other preferred? Thanks again, Simon On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:44 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Interesting approach concerning modifying the tax invoice. > > I'd say all of that sounds correct to my understanding as well, save I > think you have the Scheme—HTML bit reversed. > > The files are in Scheme, which generate the report as an HTML table. > (not the other way around) > > I'm pretty sure there are already several RFE's filed, but the ability > to set one's own default report and default spreadsheet would greatly > enhance the reporting system and avoid hacks like re-writing an existing > report. (entirely inaccessible to most folks) > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 1/3/23 5:03 AM, Steve Brown wrote: > > I've been wrestling with this too, specifically with regard to > > invoices. This is a rather lengthy comment. I hope it is useful. Also, > > if some of this is inaccurate, which is likely, please let me know. > > > > I've looked at the wiki and sifted through the code trying to > > understand how reports work. There appear to be two approaches. > > > > One uses scheme to wrap html around the report variables. These report > > files live in gnucash/report/reports/standard. Each has at least 3 > > sections, one to define the report, it's location in the menu and a > > guid identifier, one for the options menu and one to render the report. > > A report file can contain several report definitions that may share the > > same render section. My opinion is that these files are quite opaque > > and very fragile. > > > > The other and apparently newer approach has a report file that contains > > the same report and option sections as above, but preprocesses a html > > document with embedded scheme tags and a companion css file to generate > > scheme for the render section. The template and css files live in > > gnucash/report/reports/support. At this point, only 3 reports have been > > converted/rewritten using this approach. Only one is for invoices. > > > > This second approach is discussed in the eguile section of the wiki but > > seems out of sync with the implementation. A better explanation is in > > the source of the preprocessor. It lives at gnucash/report/eguile.scm. > > > > The report for printing invoices is chosen at Edit->preferences- > >> business->Report for printing. That is a glade screen and is hardwired > > to the guids of 4 specific reports, Printable, Fancy, Easy and Tax. > > Only the latter uses the equile preprocessor. The first 3 are packaged > > in a single file, invoice.scm. > > > > At this point, I plan to modify the tax invoice to meet my needs. This > > seems to be the only way the Print Invoice button on the View Invoice > > screen will generate my custom invoice. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Simon Roberts (303) 249 3613 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
