Exporting transaction data from QuickBooks to GnuCash

[Benoit Grégoire]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 14:06, Brian V Bonini wrote:
> What sort of documentation do you need? It is just a .csv file. You can
> open it in any plain text editor and see exactly what is going on with
> it.

Yes, but what are the allowable values of the TRNSTYPE field?  Is the format 
of DATE standardized?  What is the CLASS fields used for.  IIF files don't 
have the same fields defined at the top of the file.  There are several 
variants of the IIF format with different columns depending on the type of 
data represented, which column can we expect to always be present? Is it 
possible that several formats could be sent in a single file (accounts and 
transactions for example?  If so, do we expect a new copy of the headers to 
parse, or are they all non-overlaping?

People seem to be under the impression that because they can download a so 
called "IIF file" from their bank, all IIF files are the same and represent 
the same kind of data.  Obviously they are not.

Yes, we can probably reverse engineer it from the exambles in your previous 
message, but it will be time consuming and error prone at best, especially 
without a copy of quickbooks to verify.

-- 
Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/