FYI: GnuCash goes OFX ;-)

[Jeremy Jongsma]

Wonderful!

I'd be happy to test this out with real banking servers.

- Are your "personal changes" to libofx committed to CVS already?
- Which branch of GnuCash is this in - head, gnome2 or both?
- Since there is no druid yet, how do I configure this?

-j

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 08:22 +0200, Martin Preuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you know GnuCash currently uses AqBanking for online banking. Until now 
> this has only been interesting for German users, because the homebanking 
> protocol HBCI is only available around here.
> 
> However, I just added a backend for AqBanking which allows connecting to OFX 
> servers for transaction and account statement retrieval.
> 
> This works with a test server, but I didn't have the chance to test it with 
> real servers, yet. It depends on latest changes in LibOFX (Ace Jones ported 
> his code from KMyMoney to LibOFX) and on some personal changes I made to my 
> local sandbox of LibOFX.
> 
> The beauty is: I verifed with my own application that no changes to the 
> application itself are necessary to use the new backend (even no 
> recompilation). If the application already uses AqBanking (which GnuCash does 
> for HBCI) it can also use OFX without modifications ;-)
> 
> There is much left to be done, most importantly a setup wizard must be written 
> and the stuff must be tested with real servers...
> So this backend is in no way complete (and for now only available via CVS), 
> but maybe it is interesting enough to know what is going on with online 
> banking ;-)
> 
> 
> regards
> Martin
> 
> 
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