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 <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
