PostgreSQL

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 12 10:54:36 CST 2003


Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com> writes:

> I do my taxes on spreadsheets.  It allows me to combine information from
> many sources and it gives me a file that I can archive.  I could
> probably do the same thing in Gnucash but it would be MUCH more
> difficult and I couldn't really archive it. 

Have you tried the "Tax Report"?  That is supposed to export a .txf file,
which is the same file format used by the various Tax programs...

-derek

> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 22:33, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > You still haven't answered my question about what kinds of reports you
> > want/need.  Why do you need a spreadsheet?  What does it show you that
> > you can't see in Gnucash?
> > 
> > You claim you don't want to view/print reports, but then what are
> > you doing in Excel/OO?
> > 
> > Followups to gnucash-user....
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Typically, what I did when I used Quicken was to extract the data into
> > > EXCEL and use filters, grouping and subtotals to get the reports I
> > > wanted.  I was also able to create multiple .cvs files in Quicken, bring
> > > them into separate sheets in a workbook and then combine them into a
> > > single sheet.  This is what I wish to do now, only using Gnucash and
> > > OpenOffice.
> > > 
> > > What I don't want are reports that I view on screen or reports that only
> > > print.  I need to be able to export reports into formats other than html
> > > or xml, and this is where Gnucash fails me.  I particularly like .cvs
> > > files because they are recognized as spreadsheets.
> > > 
> > > When OpenOffice.org has its native PostgreSQL driver working it will be
> > > easy for me to directly access Gnucash files from OpenOffice.  The
> > > problem is not that I can't do the reports in Gnucash, its that there is
> > > no easy way to get them into OpenOffice Calc.
> > > 
> > > A typical operation which I would want to do would be to select a number
> > > of accounts and subtotal them by description or description within
> > > category and suppress the detail.  I guess an easy way to demonstrate
> > > this is to look at the reporting and exporting capabilities of Quicken.
> > > 
> > > -- ron
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:07, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What kind of report are you looking for?
> > > > 
> > > > -derek
> > > > 
> > > > Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > I've been using gnucash for a couple of years now and I would like to
> > > > > switch to PostgreSQL.  I'm running 1.8.2.  Could someone send me a link
> > > > > to the necessary modules and How-to?
> > > > > 
> > > > > The major reason for doing this is the lack of reporting capability in
> > > > > Gnucash.  I need to filter data and get it into an OpenOffice
> > > > > spreadsheet (And I don't want to write code, learn XSLT, etc.)
> > > > > 
> > > > > IMHO lack of ability to export data is Gnucash's weakest area.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanx
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com>
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> > > -- 
> > > Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com>
> 
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> Ron Hauptfleisch <hops at pobox.com>
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