GTT: Announce & Question
Linas Vepstas
linas@linas.org
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:21:16 -0500
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This is an announcement & a question to the developers:
GTT -- Gnome Time Tracker -- New version
Instead of banging on GnuCash, I've recently turned my attention to=20
Gtt, the Gnome Time Tracker, and added a bucket-full of new features.
These should be appearing in 1.4.0.99, and (a bit cleaned up) in the
final gnome-1.4.
The goal of doing this was to provide a way of gathering time-billing
data and tying it to gnucash, so that contracting invoices (e.g. at
law offices) could be easily prepared.=20
=46rom the NEWS file:
-- Sub-project support has been added. New projects can be listed as=20
subprojects of other projects. The time totals will show the total
including sub-projects. The Heirarchical tree can be expanded/collaps=
ed
to simplify viewing. The tree can be re-arranged by dragging-n-dopping
projects.
-- A journal showing explicit start and stop times is now maintained.=20
Blocks of time can be annotated with memos. The journal can be=20
exported as an html page, or printed (ok, printer support not
yet finished).
-- Infrastructure for storing price & billing information has been
put into place. This will allow billing invoices to be generated.
(not yet done, see below).
-- The journal GUI is based on html-like pages. This makes it
relatively easy to create new reports and modify the format of=20
existing reports. Thus, custom reports, such as invocies, should=20
be coming soon. Hopefully, we'll also add a feature that allows=20
custom reports to be designed from the GUI.
-- The above features required an expanded way of storing data: and so
there is now a new XML file format that stores both project and
journal data.
-- Export to GnuCash coming soon, I hope ...
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So, the 'big question': what is the best way of tying/integrating this
with gnucash?=20
At a minimum, it would be good to have gtt export something that gnucash
can import. But what's the status on this?
I could export a QIF file (yuck).
I could export a gnucash-format xml file, but I don't beleive that there
is currently any way of importing/merging-in 'fractional' xml files.
Would Dres, as the current maintainer of this code, have any comments
about this? Is this easy? hard? Could I get you to add this, or do
I have to buckle down and do this myself?
--linas
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