feature request / idea

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:27:28 -0300
Jeff Warnica said:

>I dont sit down to 'do the books' all that often, so when I do Im generaly
>updating a bunch of accounts.. And Im doing this over a remote X link (I
>have my reasons).

You could get around this for the time being by entering all the data 
into a qif file (use 1 for each different account) which is then 
imported into gnucash.

I recently did this with 8 or so months worth of data, and it was 
extremely quick to do things this way.  This would be ideal over a 
slow link, since you can create the file anywhere, then copy it to 
the remote location for import.

To reduce the number of errors, you can do a couple of things.  I set 
up a bunch of keyboard macros and abbreviations within emacs to make 
things simple.  An alternative would be to use something like a perl 
script to "expand" account name aliases to the fully qualified 
GnuCash account name (i.e. use the word 'tip' for 'Expenses:Food:Dining:Tip')
that way you don't have to type nearly as much, and whatever does
you're auto-expantion will get it right without the potential
for typos.
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Seeya,
Paul
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