Bug 395864 - Unable to modify or save custom reports
Summary: Unable to modify or save custom reports
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 394366
Alias: None
Product: kmymoney
Classification: Applications
Component: reports (show other bugs)
Version: 5.0.1
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KMyMoney Devel Mailing List
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Reported: 2018-06-25 19:46 UTC by Graham Davies
Modified: 2018-06-26 05:43 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of dialog window when trying to modify or save report (49.02 KB, image/png)
2018-06-25 19:46 UTC, Graham Davies
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Screenshot_20180625_204325.png (50.95 KB, image/png)
2018-06-25 20:58 UTC, Graham Davies
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Description Graham Davies 2018-06-25 19:46:18 UTC
Created attachment 113566 [details]
Screenshot of dialog window when trying to modify or save report

In Kmymoney 5.0.1-1 unable to either modify or save any custom reports. Select any report and click 'configure' to modify it. Dialog window opens. Select any tab in the dialog e.g. Date or Account, etc. Make changes. There is no button to either apply or save the changes. Buttons across the bottom are Help, Reset, Find, Close. This happens with both built in reports and reports previously created with version 4.8.
Comment 1 Jack 2018-06-25 19:59:45 UTC
Are you sure it didn'tsave your changes?  It may not be obvious, but I think changes to report configuration are saved automatically, and the report is saved with some indication of "modified" or "custom" in the name, unless you explicitly change the name.  I know it's not necessarily obvious, but please check whether that's what's actually happening.
Comment 2 Graham Davies 2018-06-25 20:58:45 UTC
Created attachment 113572 [details]
Screenshot_20180625_204325.png

Hi Jack

Thanks for your quick response.

I've just checked what you asked but was unable to save any reports.

However! It seems that the 'Apply' button in the configure dialog window
is actually labelled 'Find' for some reason. By chance my mouse pointer
showed a tooltip when held over the 'Find' button stating 'Apply the
configuration changes to the report'.
When I clicked on 'Find' it actually applied the changes and I was able
to save the changes with the 'Save' button in the main window. I've
tried modifying and saving several reports.
I've attached a modified screenshot with the relevant button
highlighted in red.
Seems like the 'Find' button in the dialog window needs to be relabelled
as 'Apply'?
Thanks for your help

Graham


On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, at 20:59, Jack wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395864
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> ---
> Are you sure it didn'tsave your changes?  It may not be obvious,
> but I think> changes to report configuration are saved automatically, and the
> report is> saved with some indication of "modified" or "custom" in the name,
> unless you> explicitly change the name.  I know it's not necessarily obvious,
> but please> check whether that's what's actually happening.
> 
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Comment 3 Jack 2018-06-25 22:02:35 UTC
I suppose we could improve the terminology, or perhaps even add some minimal explanation to the dialog.  However, once you make changes to the criteria, they don't actually have any effect until you "find" the transactions contributing to the report using those new criteria.  In retrospect, I wonder if the terminology is left over from a query dialog.

Would it help to say somewhere (other than the manual, which does need updating also) that there is no need to explicitly save a report, saving is automatic, but changes to search criteria are not actually saved until you hit "Find" to apply those changes to the displayed report."  ?
Comment 4 Thomas Baumgart 2018-06-26 05:43:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 394366 ***