Thanks John, I thought that was the case.
David On Fri, 2026-10-23 at 09:04 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > David, > > I’ll save you some time poring through the code: Yes, the register > and reports are wildly different: > > Reports are HTML composed from tables produced by the report’s query > and computations. That HTML is fed to a WebKitGtk WebView for display > via a temporary file that can be copied to a permanent location using > the report tab’s export button. > > The register is a sort of list view made custom code and drawn > directly on a Cairo canvas. > > GnuCash’s CSV export works directlly from the in-memory > representation of the book, independent of the register code. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Oct 23, 2026, at 01:42, David Cousens <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi Adrien, > > > > I had realised that was what Geoff was trying to do. I think the > > problem is a report is not an account register, although it appears > > as > > a tab in the window also displaying them, but is simply a rendered > > HTML > > page. I haven't yet had a look at the code but I would suspect the > > code > > for displaying a report is different from that for an account > > register. > > From memory, nbut it has been quite a while since I last looked at > > it, > > the account register code wasn't a simple GTK structure and GTK has > > no > > facility for exporting from the TreeView or ListView data > > structures. > > Was it ever exporting reports in CSV in previous versions? It isn't > > something I do very often so I'm not that sure about it. It may be > > possible in principle to add an export in CSV but I didn't think > > that > > had been implemented. I only remember either copy and pasting from > > the > > window or exporting and importing the HTML. > > > > Cheers > > David > > > > On Thu, 2026-10-22 at 16:12 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > David, > > > > > > Geoff is referring to "File > Export > Export Active Register to > > > CSV" > > > as > > > an option instead of using the HTML export of the Account Report > > > when > > > viewing Find results. (because allegedly, Numbers.app doesn't > > > like > > > importing the HTML file as a table, but will of course take CSV) > > > OpenOffice can do the HTML import, but Geoff doesn't like the > > > result. > > > (not sure of the process being used to do that import, I'm still > > > awaiting an answer on that count.) > > > > > > When that is clicked, the pop-up to configure that export is no > > > longer > > > showing up. There appears to be a window stacking or geometry > > > issue. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Adrien > > > > > > On 10/22/26 14:54, David Cousens wrote: > > > > I don't think there is any option to export a report as a CSV > > > > in > > > > GnuCash 5.17 and I don't think it existed previously. File- > > > > >Export > > > > Reports only exports the HTML file as does the Toolbar Export > > > > button. > > > > Unfortunately the only option is to first import into > > > > LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Excel, then export as a CSV and then > > > > import > > > > that > > > > into Numbers. HTML from 5.17 imported to LibreOffice works > > > > fine, at > > > > least on Linux, after you delete the document headers once it > > > > is > > > > imported > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-user mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > 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. > > > > -- > > David Cousens > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > 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. > -- David Cousens _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
