DATEV Export, german relevant only

[Christian Stimming]

Hello,

Thomas Templin wrote:

> Hello
> Are there any plans to implement a DATEV Export in GnuCash?


Thanks for the question. No, there are no plans to implement a DATEV 
export in gnucash, yet, because there is only 1 (in words: one) German 
developer working on Gnucash, and this guy (me) happens to be busy 
enough with the recent HBCI stuff.

If you or some more people want to go for it, your ideas are greatly 
welcomed and very appreciated. Gnucash has a TXF export feature, which 
is basically the equivalent thing in the US. So there is already some 
code which can serve as an example, and the basic features are all there.

As usual, you are very much invited to send your patches to 
gnucash-patches@gnucash.org. If you or some other German developers 
start to regularly contribute code, we could also think about CVS 
access, but of course for a start you should simply submit patches to 
that mailing list.


> This plus a widget for creating so called Industrie Kontenrahmen, 
> which is a standard account set for buisines use, this could bring 
> a boost in a wider akceptance of GnuCash in a small company 
> environment in germany.


If you create a new file in Gnucash (File->New), you can choose from 
some account templates which are taken from the source directory 
accounts/de_DE. All you would need to do is write a new account template 
following the Industriekontenrahmen. If you've done something like that, 
then simply send your account file to gnucash-patches, and I or somebody 
else will transform it into an account template and submit it into CVS.


> Ive had the first contact to a regional bank house here in northern 
> germany ant got the chance to introduce GnuCash to them. 


Cool. Which bank? I happen to live in Hamburg, so if you need some 
further expertise in that area, feel free to contact me.


> I will have a further meeting with them in the next weeks and will 
> try to make propaganda for the idea to donate for such an 
> implementation. Is there anyone here in germany who also has such 
> contacts? May be it might be interesting to coordinate such a 
> "project". 
> A german GnuCash list may be another step in a better acceptance. 
> Then you dont have to sustain my pidgin english -or is it endure 
> my pidgin english, hmm, its "ertragen" in german-  :)

We can ask Linas to set up a gnucash-de@gnucash.org mailing list, if 
there is enough interest. Currently I'm still a bit unsure whether there 
  actually is enough interest. If we end up with 1-2 messages from 
German users *per day*, then this would definitely be enough for a 
special list.

Christian