Dear Jim, all
sorry for my inaccurateness here. Of course not the accounting
application gnucash itself was meant. I really appreciate this software
as a free and open project and it does a great job for me. Thanks to all
for keeping it up and running.
I was instead refering to the gnucash python module that also is called
just gnucash and which was the basis of gnucash-fiximports.py. As far as
I can see this gnucash python module is not supported anymore and its
features are newly implemented in a more pythonic, but python-gnucash
compatible way in piecash.
Regarding your invitation 'to write a bulk edit feature for the GnuCash
app': I just entered this list a day before and only occasionally saw
some discussion about this topic. Perhaps you allow a viewpoint from a
user of the software, as I am.
Any bulk edit feature needs some kind of rules on which decisions can be
made - either as static dependencies or via some kind of bayesian
filter. I prefer self defined rules, but in any case from my point of
view it makes sense to keep this part out of the business of the kernel
application.
I actually find it somehow reassuring to have a well defined import
interface like QIF import into some imbalance account. Then, always
based on this well defined status before, an additional rule based
structure and process can organizes the transactions in a way that is
appropriate to the needs of the specific accounts. For me it is not so
much a problem but more a feature to have two separate steps for this.
My two cents.
Am 27.01.25 um 21:54 schrieb Jim DeLaHunt:
Ulrich:
This is an interesting topic. One comment confused me, however:
On 2025-01-27 07:41, Ulrich Schwardmann via gnucash-user wrote:
...Actually I also had this problem of bulk operations in gnucash
before.
Somewhen in 2017 I found a solution in the nowadays outdated
gnucash-fiximports project ...[elided]....
This fiximports software worked for me quite a while....
Because this software is based on gnucash and gnucash is not maintained
anymore, I had to solve this somehow....
I'm not sure what you mean by "gnucash is not maintained anymore".
GnuCash, the main accounting software, certainly is maintained. It
receives continuing work and new releases. Maybe you meant that the
gnucash-fiximports project is not maintained anymore?
Also, since you know the kind of discussion we have on this list, I am
certain you have predicted what I am going to reply to:
... the importance of this
feature so we might have a formal solution that we can put into the
document section. Gnucash cuts into the prosumer market where users do
need such "advanced" features. ...
GnuCash is a free software project. Both the documentation and
software sources are available, and pull requests are accepted. If
there is an addition to the documentation that would address your
concern, you are welcome to submit it. (But note that recommending
non-GnuCash software is a different matter than just improving the
documentation.) If you want to write a bulk edit feature for the
GnuCash app, you are welcome to submit that.
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
--
Mit freundlichem Gruss
Ulrich Schwardmann
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