Re: [GNC-dev] Scripting Gnucash actions without UI

2023-10-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I've seen several questions on the user list with respect to that very use case as an SX variable. Regards, Adrien On 10/12/23 9:26 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: Other ideas are possible: determine the balance of an account at a particular date ___

Re: [GNC-dev] Scripting Gnucash actions without UI

2023-10-12 Thread Christopher Lam
Thanks Liz... With the full power of scheme (or python) it will be relatively straightforward to customise these calculations. There's an example script in the GitHub pull request, and it does interact via command line to input some transaction details, summarises the transaction and asks

Re: [GNC-dev] Scripting Gnucash actions without UI

2023-10-12 Thread Liz
On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 17:51:40 +0800 Christopher Lam wrote: > 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

Re: [GNC-dev] Scripting Gnucash actions without UI

2023-10-08 Thread David H
Christopher, Did you mean to post this to the gnucash-users list so the "Dear Users" can comment ? Cheers David H. On Sun, 8 Oct 2023 at 19:52, Christopher Lam wrote: > Dear Users > > I'm aware there's demand for automated scripting Gnucash activity such as > entering transactions with

[GNC-dev] Scripting Gnucash actions without UI

2023-10-08 Thread Christopher Lam
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