Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-16 Thread Benjamin So
Hi there, As it appears that the standard reports that come with Gnucash don't seem to fit my needs, I'm looking to create some custom ones to help me prepare GST (and also other tax) returns. I've read through the archives on the topic of GST and have taken the suggestion of using split transa

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-07 Thread Josh Sled
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:21, Benjamin So wrote: > directory structure up to C exists on my local disk, there's no file > called xacc-repdev.html. Is there an online version of this document > somewhere? I tried the CVS repository, but didn't have any luck there > either. [From http://gnomesupp

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-07 Thread Derek Atkins
It's from gnucash-1.6 (or maybe even 1.4). There's no equivalent in the current gnucash-1.8 docs. Feel free to submit an up to date version to the doc maintainer. -derek David Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a copy of xacc-repdev.sgml that I could send you. I dug it > out of some

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-06 Thread David Reiser
I have a copy of xacc-repdev.sgml that I could send you. I dug it out of some repository, but by now I have no recollection of its source. Since it's sgml instead of html, it isn't too pretty on my Mac (haven't found a generic sgml renderer yet), but it is readable in a text editor. Dave On J

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-06 Thread Benjamin So
Thanks, Josh. I was able to locate the Hello World report on my local installation, but the tutorial isn't there. I used Fink to install Gnucash, so I was expecting the path /usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/xacc-repdev.html to translate to /sw/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/xacc-repdev.html, b

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:13, Josh Sled wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 09:20, Benjamin So wrote: > > > So the question is what is the best way to get my hands dirty in > > writing custom reports. I'm sure this topic must already have been > > covered in an earlier discussion, but I didn't have mu

Re: Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Sled
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 09:20, Benjamin So wrote: > So the question is what is the best way to get my hands dirty in > writing custom reports. I'm sure this topic must already have been > covered in an earlier discussion, but I didn't have much luck searching > the archives. Is there some sort of

Advice on creating custom report for GST

2005-01-05 Thread Benjamin So
Hi there, As it appears that the standard reports that come with Gnucash don't seem to fit my needs, I'm looking to create some custom ones to help me prepare GST (and also other tax) returns. I've read through the archives on the topic of GST and have taken the suggestion of using split transa