Thank you all for your very kind replies. You are right. This description is the right one:
In my GnuCash installation I have separate book files "Book A" and "Book B", and separate reports for each, "Monthly Report A" and "Monthly Report B", and that when I: 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 is disrupted. I also adventure to have reports labeled: ID monthly report FA monthly report, and CR monthly report One for each of the book files, but when I get in and out, it looses the connection to the accounts. Or at least that is what I have found with 3 different book files. Once again, thank you for your help. Peace, Federico Atristain On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote: > 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]*.* > > > [1] <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help> > <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help> > [2] <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations> > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations> > [3] <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797124> > <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797124> > > Best regards, > —Jim DeLaHunt > > > > -- Federico Atristain federico.atrist...@yahoo.com Bitcoin: 39qwXAc8xvXTMB75hVPSPs89ejUQVTJy1X Litecoin: MKE8uieWcYbyh4AnpFwNMpnSYRh9Y683Vw Bitcoin Cash: 3AhxzqruW6h9FEFBXm2rpE2yMMdQSL1opF Ripple: rJ4eRNVWWfcVd5L4GB4EyjQGGV2RCxcZPB XRP: = to Ripple _______________________________________________ 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. 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