Customer Import Plugin

Reuben Cummings reubano at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 10:26:43 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk>wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:17:54 +0300
> Reuben Cummings <reubano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> > >
> > >> On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Reuben Cummings wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I didn't download a module. I only added the lines to the config
> > >>> file.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Then, as Mike pointed out, it's unlikely to work. ;-)
> > >
> > > Right. You have to build the module, too.
> > >
> > >> Regards,
> > >> John Ralls
> > >
> > > -derek
> >
> > Ok, just so I have this straight.
> >
> > 1) wait for Mike to check in the patch
> > 2) build the new gnucash with customer import module
> >
> > Is this correct??
> > _______________________________________________
> Hi Reuben
>
> Correct.  I'll post here when I add the code.  It seems to be working
> fine so could well be today (or this week).  There's some code
> duplicated with the bill/invoice importer which I'd like to refactor
> out first though.
>

Any updates?


> No flags or switches required to build and I've only tested this
> on Fedora14 so you can be the Mac tester.  It works in the same manner
> as the invoice/bill importer which means it's rather inflexible in that
> the input files again have to have fixed order fields, which are obvious
> from the code but I'll have to write a manual/guide.
>

So does this mean I can just modify the config file from the binary version
or will I have to build Gnucash from source and add the customer import
module there??

Mike Evans
>


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