creating accounts by hand in the xml-file

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 29 August 2005 11:33 am, Andreas Fromm wrote:
> I would like to write a tool that creates a list of accounts in
> gnucash based on a list of names I pass in.

CashUtil will enable this functionality:

http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/cashutil/

It is nowhere near as simple as you may expect.

> Can I just insert the new 
> account-subtree into the xml-file without blowing up everything?

No - it's unlikely that you'll find the new accounts when you load the file 
because you need to get the relationships and hierarchy in place.

GnuCash will try to ignore accounts that are not correctly inserted - but if 
you simply hack the XML it's likely that you'll create a set of account 
groups that GnuCash simply cannot understand.

> How 
> do I get a valid 'act:id' value for a new account?

1. Create within the GUI.
2. Wait for CashUtil.
3. Write your own QIF format file, possibly.

I can't recommend hacking the XML directly - cashutil loads the XML using 
GnuCash C code and the QOF library and this is the only reliable method, 
other than the existing GUI.

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Neil Williams
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