Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 22/02/2019 15:34, John Ralls wrote: Our position has always been and will likely always be that we support writing to a GnuCash file or database only through the GnuCash API. That's not the same thing as from inside of GnuCash. Nods, in theory. GnuCash's libraries expose their API

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-23 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 21/02/2019 21:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Otherwise, if you have a case of say, high volume day trading, you are probably limited to tracking most of the activity outside of GnuCash, generating daily net transactions and just entering/importing those. Good advice, Adrien. The gnc data

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-22 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 22, 2019, at 12:38 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > > I can't remember we ever said it would be possible to write to the GnuCash db > from outside of GnuCash. That would mean that **all** accounting constraints > should be encoded in the db data structure. I don't think that's

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry for my misunderstanding. Certainly, I can see that limitation. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 22, 2019, at 2:38 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op donderdag 21 februari 2019 22:03:11 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> While there is the option to use a database backend, there is currently no

Re: [GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While there is the option to use a database backend, there is currently no support for *writing* to the db from anything other than GnuCash, it should only be read. (this will be possible eventually) There is also a separate program called PieCash, but that too is for reading only. The

[GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

2019-02-21 Thread Harry Foerster
I'm currently running Gnucash 3.3 under Windows 10. Currently I would need to do a large amount of manual entering/editing to record some investment transactions I require. Are there any add-on modules available that manipulate transactions and/or what programming language would be required for my