web connect

[David Reiser]

Nope. That part of the functionality is not present in gnucash.

Dave

On May 9, 2008, at 10:10 PM, John Rosenquist wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>

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