What happened to Printing Profit and Loss / Balance Sheet reports?

ERPNext Accounting
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ERPNext used to be able to print accounting reports and generate a PDF. Now, I just get a dialog returning no results for the “Report” field, looking for a print format that either doesn’t exist or is filtered out by the default filters:

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I just spun up an obsolete v13 server to check, and indeed it did work on the last release of v.13 at least. When did this stop working? I can still export to excel as a workaround, but the feature loss is a bit unsettling. Hoping it’s just a bug, and not a design decision.

Currently running:

{
	"frappe": "15.87.0",
	"erpnext": "15.85.1",
	"hrms": "15.52.1",
	"payments": "0.0.1",
	"print_designer": "1.6.2"
}

EDIT: Also want to add that as a sanity check, I started up a new test instance in docker of frappe/erpnext:develop with just the demo data and saw the same results as the screenshot above. So I don’t think this is something specific to my setup.

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I believe those reports now work with print formats, if I’m not mistaken. I haven’t used the develop branch in a while so I’m not sure how it works specifically, but my hunch would be that’s why the print workflow has changed. The feature has been expanded, not removed.

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I see. But there are no print formats available yet? IMHO, there should have been a stock print format for each one before changing the functionality. By the way, I only checked develop to see if I could print the reports on that branch (and with a clean install with only demo data) since I could not on version-15. Figured it would be good to eliminate my database as being a factor as well.

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Oh sorry, I misunderstood and thought you were running into this problem on develop. I’m not sure why it’s happening on v15. I just checked my installation (slightly behind yours at 15.80) and print works fine for me. What happens if you hit submit without putting anything in the Report field?

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Ah, thank you. For some reason I didn’t think it could have been be an optional field. If I skip the print format field, I get a full-page print preview with no print button or print dialog. I can then use the browser command (Ctrl-P, or Menu-Print) to print from there, so that’s something! It still isn’t the normal frappe print experience (and I think it’s counter-intuitive to have a quick entry field for the print format when there are no stock print formats), but at least it is printable. I guess the changes are still “under construction”, even in the develop branch.

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