Comments, Observations, and some XML file format questions

[Derek Atkins]

Scheduled transactions are being worked on right now.  In fact, there
is some support in current CVS.

-derek

nigel_gnucash-devel@unos.net writes:

> On 27 Aug, Paul Lussier wrote:
> <snip>
> > The reason behind my question is this.  I want to write some 
> > (perl-based) command-line utilities to manipulate the file to do 
> > things like add/clone transactions, but I need to know how to access 
> > some of the existing transactions.
> <snip>
> 
> I've been thinking about a similar thing.  It seems to me that such a
> utility could be coupled with cron to provide a really simple way to do
> scheduled transactions, something gnucash doesn't currently support
> (AFAIK - just started lurking) and is on the requested feature list.  Of
> course, it's only a "simple way" for those of us who know cron, but
> since gnucash's installed user base seems to be primarily geeks right
> now, that would give us something to hold us over until we get a
> "user-friendly" way.
> 
> > I have looked at it a little bit, but I'd rather get an explanation 
> > for those of you who designed the format before I dive in and make a 
> > bunch of (possibly) wrong assumptions :)
> <snip>
> 
> I'd be interested in seeing this specification also.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Nathan 'Nato' Uno
> 
> 
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