r22345 - gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C - Add Importing Customers and Vendors section.
Mike Evans
mikee at code.gnucash.org
Thu Aug 23 09:45:28 EDT 2012
Author: mikee
Date: 2012-08-23 09:45:27 -0400 (Thu, 23 Aug 2012)
New Revision: 22345
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/22345
Modified:
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_import_business_data.xml
Log:
Add Importing Customers and Vendors section.
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_import_business_data.xml
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--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_import_business_data.xml 2012-08-22 14:13:49 UTC (rev 22344)
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</sect2>
</sect1>
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+ <sect2 id="import-customers-vendors">
+ <title>Importing Customers and Vendors</title>
+ <para>The Customers and Vendors importer is an optional module and needs to
+ enabled by editing the file $HOME/.gnucash/config.user,
+ adding the line:</para>
+ <para><code>(gnc:module-load "gnucash/plugins/customer_import" 0)
+ </code></para>
+ <para>On Linux systems this file is found at $HOME/.gnucash/config.user
+ and on Mac OSX it is ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config.user.
+ If the file doesn't already exist you will have to create it.
+ After restarting GnuCash the item will appear at the bottom
+ of the business menu.</para>
+ <para>In order for the importer to work the data must be in a fixed field
+ length, comma separated line format. An example of a suitably formatted
+ line is shown below.
+ </para>
+ <para><code>
+ Field list:
+ id, company, name, addr1, addr2, addr3, addr4, phone, fax, email, notes, shipname, shipaddr1, shipaddr2, shipaddr3, shipaddr4, shiphone, shipfax, shipmail
+ </code> </para>
+ <para>
+ Vendors don't have shipping information so even though the fields have to exist, leave them empty.
+ The id field is optional, if empty a new id will be chosen. If an id is used this will UPDATE
+ a vendor/customer with the same id. This may not be what you want.
+ Note that all vendor/customer data are on a single line
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
</chapter>
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