Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-16 Thread Herbert Thoma
Am 15.11.2013 15:55, schrieb John Ralls: Would it be good to have thumbnails? Where? I don't think you'd want them on the register. It's already pretty cluttered. Well, it would probably be nice to have a small column in the register that indicates if there is an attached document in a

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-16 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:14 AM, Herbert Thoma herbert.th...@iis.fraunhofer.de wrote: Am 15.11.2013 15:55, schrieb John Ralls: Would it be good to have thumbnails? Where? I don't think you'd want them on the register. It's already pretty cluttered. Well, it would probably be nice to have

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-15 Thread Ted Creedon
File bloat should be avoided adding scanned files would make the data file impossible to administer Have you considered a check repair function to detect link rot? On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Bob Brush gnuc...@wvit.net wrote: I really like the file management implementation of the

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-15 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Bob Brush gnuc...@wvit.net wrote: And finally not to throw in the kitchen sink, but it would be cool to add metadata to the file also, maybe a visible summary of the transaction (for those outside GnuCash) it is linked to with a gnc link

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-14 Thread Graham Leggett
On 14 Nov 2013, at 7:17 AM, David Carlson carlson...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If there is is a short warning about the fragility of external links within the program including a reference to a more thorough discussion in a help file, I think that users can decide for themselves whether to

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-14 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:32 PM, David sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: As a longtime user and sometime documentarian, John, I'd have to vote for going ahead, with some clear statement that makes it clear that this is an initial attempt to provide a long-requested feature. I think that while your

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-14 Thread David T.
@gnucash.org Devel gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:32 PM, David sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: As a longtime user and sometime documentarian, John, I'd have to vote for going ahead

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-14 Thread Bob Brush
I really like the file management implementation of the program Shotwell, the comments on Gramps reminded me. It is much the same situation as here, some users want the program to store the files, others say please don't touch my files, so it handles this by prompting at the beginning, and by

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Patrick patr...@setsuid.net writes: Derek, It would throw an error about file-not-found. If folks are in a shared DB situation, an NFS or CIFS shared drive would work. (Where the path would be the same on all systems.) Alternatively, use of the URL location rather than file location

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-13 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013, 13:06:04 schrieb Derek Atkins: Hi, Patrick patr...@setsuid.net writes: Derek, It would throw an error about file-not-found. If folks are in a shared DB situation, an NFS or CIFS shared drive would work. (Where the path would be the same on all

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-13 Thread David Carlson
On 11/13/2013 7:09 PM, Patrick wrote: Indeed, a very relevant question. I had thought about storing the file itself in the database as a binary blob, but had concerns the db would grow too large and cause other stability issues. Also, that wouldn't work well with the XML back-end. I'm not

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-12 Thread Patrick
Derek, It would throw an error about file-not-found. If folks are in a shared DB situation, an NFS or CIFS shared drive would work. (Where the path would be the same on all systems.) Alternatively, use of the URL location rather than file location might be preferable in a larger-scale situation.

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Patrick patr...@setsuid.net writes: Christian/List, I found a few cycles today and converted to KVP. Updates: - URI is now stored in KVP instead of the Transaction struct. This should maintain compatibility with existing installations. (Per John Rails' suggestion.) - Split menus and

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-09 Thread Patrick
John/List, Indeed, knew it broke backwards compatibility because of the structure changes. I wasn't aware of the KVP structures. I'll poke around with that and see if I can change things up to store the URI there. Got it regarding attaching to bugs, but I was hoping for feedback such as what you

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-09 Thread Christian Stimming
Hi Patrick, thanks for the patch and for working on this! I think it is great to see some development on this feature at last. As John has already pointed out, directly adding a new field in the data structures should be avoided, but storing the data in kvp frames will probably work for you

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-09 Thread Patrick
Christian/List, I found a few cycles today and converted to KVP. Updates: - URI is now stored in KVP instead of the Transaction struct. This should maintain compatibility with existing installations. (Per John Rails' suggestion.) - Split menus and dialogs for storing a file link vs. a location

Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-08 Thread Patrick
Hi folks, I've been a gnucash user for several years and have always wanted the ability to attach my scanned invoices or receipts to transactions. Lurking about for some time, I'd been following bug #336843 and several threads of others wanting similar functionality. Rather than wait patiently,

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-08 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Patrick patr...@setsuid.net wrote: Hi folks, I've been a gnucash user for several years and have always wanted the ability to attach my scanned invoices or receipts to transactions. Lurking about for some time, I'd been following bug #336843 and several

Re: Bug 336843 - Attach files to Transactions

2013-11-08 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Ted Creedon tcree...@easystreet.net wrote: This should be in the main release, but remember that the IRS may insist on originals, which are also copies! One could could quote the IRS on the Reduction in Paperwork Act which allows electronic images in lieu of