On March 27, 2002 11:05 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: > Benoit Gr�goire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am happy to announce that my project has been accepted, and that work > > is coming along quickly. > > Congrats. > > [lots of good stuff deleted] > > > When support for the library is added into GnuCash, I hope GnuCash can do > > much better than blindly converting transactions. It should eliminate > > duplicate, Auto-suggest matching transactions, etc. > > > > Comments and suggestions and questions are highly appreciated. > > Even though you plan to make a separate library, I would still like to > see a coherent integration into Gnucash. I agree that the integration > should be more than just a dumb system, and should perform as you > suggest. Do you plan to integrate this yourself? Is there anything > in particular that you think you need? > > Keep in mind that recentlyy there has not been much change to the CVS > repository....
I do plan on working on integration myself, but as I said, I won't have as much time to spend on the integration part as I first planned. I am planing the release of the first alpha of the library for the end of the week. It will be a little light on documentation, but it is long overdue and should be enough for other developpers to give me feedback. As promised I wrote a OFX to QIF converter to demonstrate the library, which might be usefull for some people. Off course, a lot more info is provided by ofx than what will fit in a qif file. But right now, I would need some pointers on the QIF file format to make sure I got it right. The most important problem is that OFX can transmit data about more than one acount in a single session. What I do is repeat the appropriate !Type: header line. Will this work, or is the only way to go is to generate a different qif file for each account? I used the documentation available at http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/financeformats.html It states that "Warning: The complaint against Intuit I described here is now no longer a fair one; they have, in the Quicken 99 release, included a fuller set of documentation of fields recently added to QIF files. At some point I should more fully describe these additional ``sections.'' Real Soon Now." Is this documentation available somewhere, so I can give information about the account a transaction belongs to? At the end of the page there is a suggested "Open Accounting Interchange Format". Is this implemented in gnucash? It would be trivial for me to add this to ofx2qif. At http://www.respmech.com/mym2qifw/qif_new.htm it is stated that: "The account header !Account is used in two places-at the start of an account list and the start of a list of transactions to specify to which account they belong." So it would be possible to properly specify the account the that the transactions belong to. However, I have not seen a file formatted this way anywhere, does it really work? Here is the output it gives me right now, is this well formatted? !Type:Bank D24/3/2002 T-140.00 PRetrait au GA/H.E.C MIAGA LGeneric debit ^ Good night, Benoit Gr�goire _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
