Re: XLS woes

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Robert James Clay <..hidden..> wrote:

On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 19:02 -0400, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Robert James Clay <..hidden..> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 09:24 -0400, Chris Travers wrote:
> >
> >> I have found that I am unable to open the XLS documents generated by
> >> LedgerSMB.
> >
> > Now that the necessary modules are available in Debian, I was going
> > to do some testing of that myself. But where is the option of
> > generating such output files used?
>
> I have corrected two bugs in latest branches/1.3, but there I think
> you can test on the trial balance

Ah, yes; there it is... (After also enabling Financial Reports for
the user.)

Next question; is the only way to enable the usage of it, to enable
it in the Makefile.PL file? For some reason, I thought it was a run
time (after installation) configuration item (which I can't find
anything for)... The 'XLS Report' button does show up but it doesn't do
anything. Same for the 'ODS Report' button. (The 'CSV Report' button
works...)

Actually, it's a runtime check to see if it's available. The check tries to load the template processor LedgerSMB::Template::XLS. If that fails (which it will if Excel::Template::Plus isn't available) the buttons will be shown with a state "disabled". This makes people aware the functionality should be there and hopefully go about asking why it doesn't work for them. If the buttons would be hidden, people wouldn't notice that the option can be available.

Bye,

Erik.