Dear Users I'm aware there's demand for automated scripting Gnucash activity such as entering transactions with custom formulas more complex than the SX facility will allow, determining end-of-quarter calculations etc.
There's a pending PR at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1794 which will unlock it (with a scheme script... or a python script if someone proficient can code it), and *will* allow the above, and* can* offer some interactivity (e.g. "please enter the transaction description" -- see the PR for such an example),* and also* potentially unlock other UI toolkits. >From my understanding this is a facility that the original GnuCash code from 1997 or so offered. We are not willing to provide custom-built solutions for users (not even with money offers); and I do not think it's a good idea to add custom scripts into the code. Users could share the scripts among themselves at their own maintenance risk. However, if users are needing help for such tasks, we can consider augmenting the software with api calls which can assist. It would thus be useful to know the types of tasks that users wish to automate. I'll start: Every quarter, I personally tally up the GST account balances, which allows me to submit to the tax office. I currently use the "Income and GST Statement" report for tallying. I will also create some transactions which will offset the GST accounts back to zero. This could easily be automated. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
