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[Craig Lanning]

Yeah, it's just slow going.  It's taking me time to figure out how the
QIF importer works.

I don't suppose that there is any general "how to build an importer"
documentation, is there?

Craig

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:33, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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