On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 21:00 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 schrieb brad: > > OFX import for investment accounts has a few quirks or bugs. One very > > frustrating thing about it is that it does the import too transparently > > and the user can't see what accounts the transaction went to (too often > > the wrong one). If the transaction were shown in a new tab like what is > > done in with 'Scheduled Transactions' then the user could see what > > happened & fix it. There's a click box to 'Review created transactions' > > when getting 'since last run' scheduled transactions, this is what I had > > in mind. > > How hard will this be to implement? I'm willing to take a crack at it > > unless the experienced developers here say it's too hard for a novice. > > I've done a fair amount of C, but nothing like this. > > Unfortunately I have to warn you here: This is a rather major task, because > creating a new GUI window for the to-be-implemented transaction is a lot of > unfriendly work in the current gtk/C platform. > > (This is one of the main reasons for me to have tried C++/Qt in the cutecash > experiment, but I guess you won't gain much by implementing your desired > feature in cutecash instead of gnucash, because even though cutecash can edit > your gnucash file, it is still lacking a lot of the interesting features of > gnucash. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash If you feel like you would > like > to learn something new, I would suggest trying to write an import GUI in > cutecash, but then again, it isn't clear what the future of that experiment > will be.) > > > Another feature I'd like to take a look at is using the fund/stock > > prices from an OFX import and putting that data in the price db. My > > 401k has funds which are not listed so 'get quotes' doesn't work. On > > the surface this one sounds easier to me. > > Theoretically yes, but in practice the OFX import is done by the external > library "libaqbanking". That is, first you need to find out whether > libaqbanking reads the ofx fields that you want. If not, you have to get into > libaqbanking and write code there that reads it and extend its interfaces so > that gnucash can obtain the data. If you are that far, then yes, indeed this > can't be too difficult and maybe this is a good task for a newcomer. However, > if the aqbanking library interfaces need to be changed, it's a rather > difficult task. > > Regards, > > Christian I'm talking about importing from an OFX file. Does that still use aqbanking?
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