You are welcome to work on it. I am not trying to discourage that. The 1.8 release is currently scheduled for Feb 2.
HBCI is in Germany only, so it is unlikely that you will have a chance to use it. Supposedly it is Really Cool (TM). -derek Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used both the qif and qfx importers, haven't tried the > hbci, not even aware of what format that is or who uses it. > Perhaps we then want to allow the user to search on a given > column of data for text. The automatcher then would want to > use only appropriate columns for matching on that could be > specified by the appropriate importer. Even though we are in > feature freeze I'd like to work on this so it is ready for > when 1.8.0 is released, whenever that may be. > > Chris > > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: 22 Jan 2003 10:47:34 -0500 > >From: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Transaction balancing > >To: Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >I think it's a bit more subtle that that. Each import > mechanism has > >different 'strings' to match on. QIF, for example, has a > PAYEE, MEMO, > >DESCRIPTION, Category, and I think "Account". OFX has different > >strings to search on. HBCI is different from both the above. > > > >I do not think there is a one-size-fits-all system. > > > >On #gnucash I suggested that the matching logic might be best off > >being done in Scheme -- that would allow simple upgrades or > >plugability of the matching algorithm. In either case, > benoit and I > >agree that this is *NOT* a 1.8.0 feature (as it's not a BUG, > and we > >_are_ supposed to be in feature freeze at the moment). > > > >After 1.8 is released (and we branch the sources) we can > think about > >adding this feature... and then _maybe_ backporting it to 1.8 > once we > >get it working. > > > >-derek > > > >Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I'll see if I can come up with something. I was going to > first add a search > >> textbox that will select all entries with the specified > text, then start work > >> on the automatching. > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> > >> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:29 pm, Benoit Gr�goire wrote: > >> > On January 21, 2003 03:57 pm, Chris Morgan wrote: > >> > > Does it seem that everyone agrees on the necessity to > do string matching > >> > > on imports? At the most basic level it would be nice > to have a text box > >> > > at the bottom of the import window that lets you enter > a string to search > >> > > for. You could use this string to highlight entries in > the import list > >> > > then the mass assign them to another account. That > would mostly solve > >> > > the issues I had when I so poorly decided to start > importing 3 years of > >> > > credit card transactions. One extra step would to be > to have gnucash > >> > > "learn" where transactions are assigned but this is > more complex and > >> > > probably not as necessary. > >> > > >> > It already "learns" where transactions are assigned. The > only problem is > >> > that currently, it only uses what it has learned on the > next import. Derek > >> > already filed a RFE on this. I also had to import nearly > a year worth of > >> > transactions recently and ran into this annoying > limitation, so you can > >> > hope for this feature somewhere in the 1.8 series. > >> > > >> > However, I am not touching this before 1.8 is released > (we are in feature > >> > freeze), and it will be fairly delicate to implement > properly. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-devel mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > >-- > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > >_______________________________________________ > >gnucash-devel mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
