Time tracking in GnuCash

[Eric Ladner]

I have some experience with XSLT if you want me to take a stab at it
(gnotime XML and OFX example data would be nice) and if you are not in
a terrible hurry.

Eric

On 2/5/07, Luigi Bai <lpb+gcash at focalpoint.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ariel wrote, On 02/05/2007 04:07 PM:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Luigi Bai wrote:
> >
> >> As a consultant, one thing I miss from my old program is tracking time.
> >> I'm hacking it right now by having an asset account called "Hours Bank"
> >> which has an entry for each time interval; the value is interval * rate,
> >> and the memo documents the interval. Each entry is a transfer from the
> >> correct income account. (This is of course hand calculated for now). My
> >> invoice posts items against the Hours Bank, which moves the asset to
> >> A/R. This works nicely in terms of tying up correctly; however, I'm not
> >> entirely sure that the Hours Bank is a real asset (although I guess they
> >> are - they're not invoiced yet but can be, according to the contract).
> >> The "Hours Bank" account doesn't work if it's an A/R account.
> >>
>
> [snip] I don't like the GUI idea much any more. :-)
>
> > I like the idea, but at least for now: why not just create invoices,
> > don't post them, and add entries (line items) to the invoice for each
> > time block. Then you don't need a complicated Hours Bank.
> >
> >     -Ariel
> >
>
> I like your idea - except that I wanted a way to "roll up" intervals
> over a period (week, two weeks) without losing the original intervals.
> So I want the best of both worlds.
>
> If I could figure out how to take gnotime XML and XSL it into OFX, I can
> populate the "Hours Bank" pretty easily. I could probably also get the
> XSLT to do the roll-ups, so the line items show up in Hours Bank already
> calculated. Then all I have to do is make the invoice mirror that (by hand).
>
> I realize that probably the best thing to do is to figure out how to use
> XSLT to create a guile "program" that I could just load with --load, and
> which would create the invoice with the line items just the way I'd want
> them. Unfortunately, I'm not a scheme/guile programmer, and in the short
> term I don't have the time to get up on the learning curve to see if
> it's even feasible to do (I'm not sure if the appropriate invoice
> manipulations are available in scheme).
>
> Luigi
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Eric Ladner