web connect

[John Rosenquist]

Thank you.

I'll guess I'll have to look at writing it.

John.

At 5/9/2008  09:40 PM, David Reiser wrote:
>Nope. That part of the functionality is not present in gnucash.
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>Dave
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>On May 9, 2008, at 10:10 PM, John Rosenquist wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>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
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>>>David Reiser
>>>dbreiser at earthlink.net
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