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[Derek Atkins]

Writing a tab-delimited importer would work...

-derek

Craig Lanning <CraigL at Knology.net> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 17:16, Glenn English wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:20, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > > > Where is a description of IIF (and the differences between Mac and
> > > > Windows flavors)? Google didn't find one quickly.
> 
> I looked around the Intuit site, but didn't find any kind of formal
> specification for IIF.  (I use QuickBooks 6.0 for Windows.)
> 
> I have looked through the IIF files that QB produced from my data and
> found that it is basically a tab delimited file similar to what would be
> read or written by a spreadsheet program.  (OpenOffice.org read it quite
> easily.)
> 
> > > No clue.  This is part of the problem...
> > 
> > Another part: Unless I have overlooked something big, "QuickBooks Pro
> > 5.0 for the Mac" doesn't export transactions. Just the lists of names,
> > accounts, customers, vendors, etc. No dollars except balances in
> > accounts. If this is true, an IIF importer wouldn't be much use.
> 
> I spent some time looking at the export capabilities for QB6 and found
> basically the same thing.  Since the IIF format itself appears to be
> nothing more than a simplified spreadsheet, it might be possible to
> build the IIF importer (and provide sufficient documentation) such that
> it would allow a user to "print" a transaction report to a file in tab
> delimited form.
> 
> Craig
> 
> > Might it be reasonable to take a directory full of QB reports and munge
> > them into a GnuCash xml data file? Or is that the definition of an
> > importer?
> 
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