saving budgets

[Neil Williams]

On Friday 24 December 2004 12:12 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> The current budget design seems to assume that created budgets will
> live with the accounts.  (There's no mechanism for saving or
> retrieving budgets from files.)  This makes sense since a budget seems
> pretty strictly dependent on the account heirarchy.
>
> So, if no one else is working on it, I'm considering trying to store
> the budget in the same place that the accounts are stored.  (I haven't
> looked into the details, yet.)  Any comments?

When my QSF code becomes usable, you'll be able to export any QOF-defined 
object into XML with or without any combination of other objects. This will 
allow budgets to be sensibly split from one QofBook and merged back into 
another QofBook using a system of defaults, conversions and lookups. 

If you make all the budget objects compatible with QOF, all the GnuCash 
backends will become available, including the future format of SQLlite / 
database backend.

The current XML storage of Account requires an AccountGroup - only entities 
that are children of the root AccountGroup are written to the current GnuCash 
file backend. This may not suit your design.

If budgets are not going to be ready for a release version until the Gnome2 
port is complete, you won't need to worry about storage - make all budget 
objects fully QOF compliant and let QOF deal with the storage.

I'm reasonably confident that QSF will be ready early next year - it requires 
libxml2 >= v2.5.2 so it needs to go into the Gnome2 port -  the GnuCash 1.8 
tree and current CVS HEAD generate errors when asked to work with libxml2 
code.

http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/qsf.html


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