Thanks, John,
Here are the first few lines from yesterday’s copy of ~/Library/Application
Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-2.8
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Options for saved report "GASDS Report for 2022-2023", based on template
"2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f"
(let ()
(define (options-gen)
(let
(
(options (gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
"2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f" "Transaction Report"))
(new-embedded-report-ids '()) ;; only used with Multicolumn View
Reports
)
; Section: Accounts
; Section: Currency
; Section: Display
(let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
"Display"
"Other Account Name")))
((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #f))) option))
(let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
"Display"
"Subtotal Table")))
((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #t))) option))
…and the corresponding section from the Time Machine backup from 9th November
(before I had this problem) with the
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Options for saved report "GASDS Report for 2022-2023", based on template
"2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f"
(let ()
(define (options-gen)
(let
(
(options (gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
"2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f" "Transaction Report"))
(new-embedded-report-ids '()) ;; only used with Multicolumn View
Reports
)
; Section: Accounts
(let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
"Accounts"
"Accounts")))
((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o
'("001a8f370e0741ba9cdee0e2aaa452c4" "09416821e9444360af2c9d248fca1e30"
"e5cef64f8abf4802b6e6c9917dd49d1f")))) option))
; Section: Currency
; Section: Display
(let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
"Display"
"Other Account Name")))
((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #f))) option))
(let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
"Display"
"Subtotal Table")))
((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #t))) option))
Attached is a screenshot of a MacVim split-diff comparing the backup from 9th
November with that from 22nd December (after this problem first appeared.
I haven’t gone through this with a fine-tooth comb, but the overall impression
on scanning through the split-diff screen is that the more recent version (on
the left) is missing an Accounts section for all of the reports I’ve created.
Michael

> On 1 Feb 2025, at 03:49, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> There’s a ;Section: Accounts comment possibly followed by a scheme statement,
> e.g. from the saved-reports-2.8 attached to bug 799533:
>> ; Section: Accounts
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Accounts"
>> "Accounts")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o
>> '("9607a45d938ca929bf160e4c99bb686c")))) option))
>
> The inner list can contain many UUIDs. Some reports have a default filter.
> For example the Balance Sheet Report will by default load all Asset,
> Liability, and Equity accounts and the Income Statement Report will load all
> Expense and Income accounts. In those cases it’s normal to not have an
> Accounts option. Other reports, most notably the Transaction Report, have no
> default and if there’s no Accounts option will display that error message
> about you needing to select some.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Jan 31, 2025, at 14:29, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, John - see interspersed comments below,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>> On 31 Jan 2025, at 17:16, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> We had a possibly related bug report yesterday,
>>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799533.
>>
>> Certainly looks similar.
>>
>>>
>>> As for restarting your Mac, heavens no. It’s not running Windows,
>>> restarting isn’t likely to do anything useful.
>>
>> I’ve experienced a number of situations recently where my Mac seized up and
>> the only way I found to get out of it was to shut down.
>>
>>>
>>> What would be useful is figuring out how the account entries got removed,
>>> in particular if it was operator error or something GnuCash did on its own.
>>> Your Time Machine backups of ~/Library/Application
>>> Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-2.8 might help narrow down when the change
>>> happened and you could correlate that—or not—with what books you changed
>>> around then.
>>
>> I’ve managed to get a couple of copies of saved-reports-2.8 from the past
>> few weeks but none of them appears to have entries for Accounts relating to
>> the searches I’m having problems with - but I don’t know what I’m looking
>> for - are the Account names in free text, or are the accounts identified in
>> some other way?
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 31, 2025, at 03:35, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Version: 5.9
>>>> Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28)
>>>>
>>>> michaelhendry@iMac ~ % uname -a
>>>> Darwin iMac.local 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:02:27
>>>> PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>>>
>>>> I’ve been having a recurring problem with variations on this error message:
>>>>
>>>> GASDS Report for 2024-2025:
>>>>
>>>> No accounts selected
>>>>
>>>> This report requires accounts to be selected in the report options.
>>>>
>>>> Edit report options
>>>>
>>>> Sorting / Primary Key : memo
>>>> General / End Date : absolute . 31/03/2025
>>>> General / Start Date : absolute . 01/04/2024
>>>> General / Report name : GASDS Report for 2024-2025
>>>> Display / Subtotal Table : Enabled
>>>> Display / Other Account Name : Disabled
>>>>
>>>> This particular report isn’t needed until the end of March, but as the
>>>> date approaches I use it to report on the amount claimable under the Gift
>>>> Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS). At first I thought that the problem
>>>> might have been related to a forgotten edit to the account structure, but
>>>> today I opened the relevant .gnucash file and ran the report - with the
>>>> above result. I closed a few accounts, and I realised that a full report
>>>> with all the current information had been drawn into view from the right
>>>> hand side of the screen, coexisting with the above error report.
>>>>
>>>> Remembering that I had accidentally run this report on a completely
>>>> different .gnucash file which doesn’t have the relevant accounts and got
>>>> the error report, I thought this might in some way have corrupted the
>>>> report configuration, but I’ve tried this again today, quitting GnuCash in
>>>> between changes of .gnucash file.
>>>>
>>>> The short-term fix is simply to add the appropriate accounts back into the
>>>> report, and re-save it, but there’s always the risk that I’ll omit a
>>>> relevant account.
>>>>
>>>> I haven’t found any reference to this issue on the list, which is not to
>>>> say it hasn’t been raised before, so I’d be grateful for a steer in the
>>>> right direction, or advice on further investigation - e.g. would there be
>>>> any mileage in restarting my iMac between various stages of the testing
>>>> process I tried (above).
>>>>
>>>> Regards to all,
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>>
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