Hello, Federico:
On 2025-03-24 10:21, Federico Atristain via gnucash-user wrote:
Hi!
I am using GnuCash to handle 3 different accounting files.
For each accounting file I have different reports that I save their
configurations to run them every month, however it looks like the "saved
configurations" of the reports are common to ALL the accounting files
rather than belonging to ONLY the accounting file where I created them.
GnuCash intentionally makes saved custom report configurations common to
all books in use by a given system user. See the /GnuCash Manual/[1],
Chapter 9. *Reports And Charts*, section 9.1. *Introduction*: "Click the
Save Report Configuration or Save Report Configuration As... button.
This will store your customized report options in a file below your home
directory." The GnuCash Wiki article *Configuration Locations*[2]
explains exactly where the report options are stored. I believe there is
no way to change this in current GnuCash.
Thus, if you are using multiple GnuCash book files as the same user on
your computer, then you should probably create separate report
configurations for each book file. So for example, if you have "Book A"
and "Book B", you should probably create "Monthly Report A" to use with
Book A only, and "Monthly Report B" to use with Book B only. (I says
"probably" because I don't do this myself, and I can't find
documentation which addresses this use case. Even if the books have
identical account trees, it might be necessary to have separate report
configurations for each book, because I suspect each book uses unique
internal numbers, rather than names, to identify accounts.)
It also looks like the Online Banking setup is also common to all of them
rather than exclusive to each accounting file.
Yes, that is how I expect GnuCash to behave, and for similar reasons.
What happens is that even though I saved the account to show, etc., if I
open another account file and go back to the first one it says that I have
not selected an account yet for the report, etc.
What I think you are saying is that your GnuCash installation has
separate book files "Book A" and "Book B", and separate reports for
each, "Monthly Report A" and "Monthly Report B", and that when you:
1. open Book A and save report configuration for "Monthly Report A",
2. then close Book A,
3. then open Book B and save report configuration for "Monthly Report B",
4. then close Book B,
5. then re-open Book A,
…then the report configuration for Book A will be disrupted. This is
surprising to me. It is not how I would expect GnuCash to behave.
However, I don't use multiple books myself so I have no direct
experience of this situation.
Maybe someone else uses multiple books and reports, and can comment from
their experience.
Is there a way to have them separate (i.e. reports per accounting file)?
These sort of requests are tracked in the GnuCash bug database, and our
volunteer developers get to them when they have time and interest. This
request is already in there. See Bug 797124 - /Request for Enhancement:
Preferences and Saved Reports should be per-book not per-user/[3]/./
/
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[1] <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help>
[2] <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations>
[3] <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797124>
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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