Announcement: Evaluation of GnuCash Data in OpenOffice.org

[Don H]

Hello Donald,
I am using OpenOffice 2.4, that is the latest version in Ubuntu.

Now I did see an error like you mentioned but that is because I was
selecting the wrong file.  So to make it work I did the following:

    * My Gnucash file is called Home Finances.  It is a Gzip file.  It is
located in a folder called Gnucash and it contains all of my Gnucash files
(e.g., main file, .log, .xac). 
    * I loaded the macros into Openoffice.
    * I opened up Calc and ran the SetGnuCashFilePaths macro.
    * On the Pick Output Data File screen I selected the Gnucash file 'Home
Finances' and hit Open.
    * Next on the Enter Database Filename screen I entered the name of the
spreadsheet I would use in OpenOffice (I called it 'Where did my money go)
and hit Save.
    * At that point it created the database, and has worked every time I do
a refresh.

So if you doing the above and it isn't working I can only imagine that it
would be version related in OpenOffice.
Don H


Donald Allen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Don H <don.harville at att.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Excellent macro, makes it much easier to see where my money is going.
>>
>> I do have a question.  In Gnucash there are parent accounts and child
>> accounts.  The parent account shows the total of all of the child
>> accounts
>> under it.  Is there a way to show the parent account totals in OpenOffice
>> vs. just seeing all of the accounts?
> 
> 
> What version of Openoffice are you using? I have had absolutely no luck
> with
> 3.0, as has been reported by others, despite the fact that there are
> instructions for manually installing the macro, which I've done. Unlike
> others, in my case, the macros are present when you click 'Run Macro', but
> SetGnucashFilePaths does not behave as the documentation says it will (the
> first dialog does not have a heading on it explaining what file it's
> attempting to find), but if you assume that it wants to be told where your
> Gnucash file is and you do so, you get an error: "Error! TypeError
> encode()
> argument(1) must be a string, not None". I guess I'll have to wait for OO
> 3.0.1 to appear in the Gentoo repository, unless someone has a bright
> idea.
> 
> /Don
> 
> 
>>
>> Thx Don H.
>>
>>
>> regunk wrote:
>> >
>> >    I have been writing an OpenOffice.org macro that will read GnuCash
>> >    output data and import it into OpenOffice.org's embedded database,
>> so
>> >    that thereafter you can evaluate them e.g. in Ooo-Calc. I wrote this
>> at
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>> its
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