Difference between revisions of "Custom Reports Using Eguile"

Revision as of 21:46, 21 June 2009

eguile is a way of processing a template file to create a guile script.

More specifically, within GnuCash, guile is used to combine HTML and guile code to create a report, such as an invoice or balance sheet.

The GnuCash version of eguile is eguile-gnc.scm, written in early 2009 by Chris Dennis, and based on Neale Pickett's eguile.scm.

For example,

<h3><?scm:d coyname ?></h3>
<h2><?scm:d reportname ?> as at <?scm:d (gnc-print-date opt-date-tp) ?></h2>

could be become

(display "<h3>")(display "Acme Tools Ltd.")(display "</h3>
<h2>)(display "Balance Sheet")(display " as at ")
(display "05/04/2009")(display "<h2">)

which is then evaluated as guile code to create the text of the report.

see [1] for more information.

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The following eguile-based reports are available. More will be contributed soon (hopefully).

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 The GnuCash version of eguile is eguile-gnc.scm, written in early 2009 by Chris Dennis, and based on Neale Pickett's [http://woozle.org/~neale/src/eguile/ eguile.scm].
+For example,
+<source lang="html4strict">
+<h3><?scm:d coyname ?></h3>
+<h2><?scm:d reportname ?> as at <?scm:d (gnc-print-date opt-date-tp) ?></h2>
+</source>
+could be become
+<source lang="scheme">
+(display "<h3>")(display "Acme Tools Ltd.")(display "</h3>
+<h2>)(display "Balance Sheet")(display " as at ")
+(display "05/04/2009")(display "<h2">)
+</source>
+which is then evaluated as guile code to create the text of the report.
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