Insert Customer modifying/build Gnucash file

Antonio Laterza anlater2001 at yahoo.it
Sat Oct 30 01:32:46 EDT 2004


 --- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> ha scritto: 
> Antonio Laterza <anlater2001 at yahoo.it> writes:
> 
> > Sorry, if I am repeating almost the same question of 
> > previous thread "Insert Customer using QIF file".
> >
> > I have many values that are not in any standard format, I can extract values 
> > (Customer, Invoice,...etc) and suppose I can produce output as need to Gnucash.
> >
> > I know that the following is dangerous so I did it on a copy of original file with Gnucash
> off: 
> > I opened Gnucash file and duplicated customer's lines changing the values of guid, and all
> > occurence of Client1 with Client2. Similar thing I wish I did on invoice. 
> > Please don't mind if this is a silly question. :)
> [snip]
> 
> Perhaps I'm just tired, but I don't see any question here to answer.  :(
> 
> If the unasked question was "can I do this?" the answer is "yes, but."
> Yes, you can do that, but it's not supported and we don't guarantee
> that you'll be able to do so in the future.  Nor we guarantee that
> your resulting data file with actually work.
> 
> On the other hand, once Neil finishes his BookMerge code you'll be
> able to create an XML file with the objects you want to add into your
> gnucash data file and just merge them in.
> 
> -derek


Sorry the question is:

What is the risks and what I have to pay attention?
Can You point me to documentation that can help to format correctly the file?
What are the constraint?

Thanks in advance

anlater


	
	
		
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