Scheduled Transactions

[Josh Sled]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:49:02PM +0100, Ben Hollowood wrote:

| I am not using the new version yet i'm afraid. But i was wondering if 
| the scheduled transactions support iCalender format. It would be cool if 
| they did because then you could view them in your standard calender adn 
| PDA as well as within gnucash itself.

No, they are not.  The Scheduled Transactions and their Frequency
Specifications are serialized into an ad-hoc format similar to the other
elements in the GnuCash XML format.

An enterprising individual could write a stylesheet to transform
the gnucash file format [or the relevant subset] into iCal
format... but I guess they'd have to solve certain problems
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88078] first... and the way
that iCal seems to specify recurrances is different than Ben Stanley's
cool FreqSpec code, so that would have to be bridged.

WRT integration with other Gnome/Linux desktop apps [Evo integration was
mentioned a few times a while ago], I don't think there's much developer
support for that ATM.  Not to say that it's discouraged ... only that
the few developers around are not working anywhere towards that.

...jsled