Insert Customer using QIF file

[Derek Atkins]

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> I fully intend to have online communication, in both directions, it's just 
> that offline is easiest to create first.
> :-)

*nods*

>> > 2. Pilot-link can query the GnuCash data file directly using QOF and a
>> > similar map.
>>
>> Please do not assume that the gnucash data file will be XML.
>
> Sorry, I know that, I should have said GnuCash data, rather than the GnuCash 
> data file. 
>
> The main GnuCash XML file is useless to pilot-link (and generic QOF data 
> interchange) - because of the hierarchical tree based on AccountGroup, which 
> was never intended to be a generic object. Pilot-link will query QOF directly 
> and use the secondary XML format that outputs the objects in a 'bag' type, as 
> illustrated in the other message. QOF will be able to make the relevant 
> GnuCash data  available (probably as a subset) in XML even when the current 
> GnuCash XML format is replaced. It won't need to be the full data set unless 
> the maps require the full set.

I'm wondering if we should look at bonobo as the interface between
different QOF applications?  This would give us both online and
offline data interchange.  I just dont know how much work it would be,
as I know next to nothing about bonobo.

-derek

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