web connect

[John Rosenquist]

Thank you for the response.
:-) I'll try to be clearer with the next question.

I'm using linux for gnucash, so there's no collision problem.

I understand the import aspect as I used to do that years ago in quicken.
What I was hoping to find was the ability to select a program for the file 
I'm downloading (instead of saving it), and have it go directly into the 
program. (The same way it does in windows with quicken. Or at least it did 
until the download ability expired 9 days ago.....)

Does the functionality to do that exist?

Thanks again, John.

At 5/9/2008  06:46 PM, David Reiser wrote:

>On May 9, 2008, at 7:58 PM, John Rosenquist wrote:
>
>>I've been looking around on the web, and have found many references to
>>direct-connect, but almost none to web-connect, and none that have
>>answered
>>my question. Is web-connect implemented in gnucash?
>>(I have 2.2.5 is installed)
>>
>>Thanks, John.
>
>That depends on how complete it has to be before you say
>'implemented'.  As far as I can tell, all web-connect does is send a
>qfx (essentially identical to ofx) file that Quicken intercepts,
>opens, and processes much like Adobe Reader takes over and processes
>pdf files.
>
>Since for web connect you have to be logged into your bank account to
>trigger the data transfer, you've already done 50% of the extra work
>required of web-connect. For gnucash, you initiate the data transfer
>the same way, but you have to manually switch to gnucash and use 
>File- >Import->OFX/QFX (and then browse to the file location) to get the
>data into gnucash.
>
>My credit union (a web-connect only financial institution) sends the
>file export.qfx when I tell them I want a transfer to Quicken newer
>than 2005.
>
>I suppose if you are on a windows machine or a mac with an active copy
>of Quicken, you'd have to investigate how to keep Quicken from
>grabbing your data before you import it into gnucash.
>
>Dave
>--
>David Reiser
>dbreiser at earthlink.net
>
>