Trying out the db backend question

[Phil Longstaff]

At this point, feedback is great.  This should be on gnucash-devel, not 
gnucash-user, though because it is for an upcoming release, not released 
software.

Save-As will save to either an sqlite db or xml file.  If the file already 
exists, it will save in that format.  Otherwise, any newly created file will be 
an sqlite file.  I plan to allow the user to select format in the near future.  
So, if you want to save an sqlite file contents as xml, you need to save over 
an existing xml file.  Perhaps make a copy of your current file and then save 
over that.

Phil

On December 23, 2008 09:31:50 pm Boyd Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have compiled gnucash trunk with --enable-dbi, and sucessfully brought
> a copy of my gnucash data file into a mysql db.
>
> I have entered a bunch of transactions, and first thing I wanted to test
> was can I get this back into an xml file.
>
> I noticed that the saveas function will enable me to save (takes
> forever) as an sqlite db.  This however doesn't produce a functional
> copy of my data.  Note that I *do* realize that this is a work in
> progress.
>
> Question is: Can I make the dbi enabled gnucash to save its data to an
> xml file?   Do you even want any feedback at this time from those who
> choose to test this out?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Boyd
>
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