Dave, Why work outside gnucash? GnuCash already has a basic CSV importer -- why not spend your time enhancing it?
-derek Quoting Dave <d...@davestechshop.net>: > Hi John, > A developer from this list and I are working on something similar to what > you have requested. Work has started. A working prototype is close at hand. > > I plan to make the completed tool available free (open source). It will run > outside gnucash and it targets Linux. It will allow complex CSV files to be > easily and quickly imported into gnucash. > > My personal need is to import complex CSV files from Yodlee into gnucash. I > use Yodlee to aggregate all my tranasactions because it is far superior to > the online banking features of gnucash or any other personal finance app > that I would consider using. > > However, if your needs are less complex than mine, you might want to take a > look at one of these two tools: > > See link: http://www.mt2ofx.tk/ (freeware) > > Calc2Qif (http://xl2qif.chez-alice.fr/calc2qif_en.php). > > At some point I expect the tool we are working on will offer all the > important features of both the above tools. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, John Smith <lbalba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> I am aware of the fact that it currently is not possible to import >> arbitrary csv formatted files directly into GnuCash, and that instead >> you have to use or write python/perl/shell scripts to convert between >> the .csv and something that GnuCash understands like Intuit Quicken >> files. But since I am not a programmer, unfortunately I am unable to >> write a script or program to bulk transfer my bank supplied cvs files >> to GnuCash supported formats like Intuit Quicken. >> >> So I was wondering if there is any interest (both from user and >> developer sides) to create a 'native' import-csv-into-gnucash feature, >> preferably something where you can map fields of your csv file to >> gnucash fields, and perhaps even save the mapping into some sort of >> 'template' so that you can easily re-use the mapping when importing >> the next batch from your bank ? >> >> Anyway, just something I was wondering about... I can imagine that >> this topic has come up quite frequently already, so Im sorry if Im the >> one that brings this up for the Nth time, but it would just seem like >> such a basic and still very useful feature for banks that only supply >> CVV formatted files. >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> John Smith >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- 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 warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
