Scheduled transactions by day of the month?

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:53:02 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> I am thinking of writing some automation here (see the "Mass
>> invoicing"-thread.).
>> (It will not be part of gnucash itself but an external program
>> changing the gnucash-file but it would get the job done.)
>
> This is a BAD IDEA.  It is completely unsupported to modify the
> gnucash data file externally.  If you do this you get into the
> unsupported region.

Yes.
I've done this for years now on a daily basis and it works
great. My library is written so it does not damage any data
under any circumstances. (I come from the medical software-field.)
Thus I don't need support. Instead I can offer it myself very well.

Face it, Gnucash is a very nice application ment for general purpose
finances done manually but it is not a software ment to heavily
automate tasks.
If I had not automated my online-banking, invoice-import,
order-import and credit-card-acceptance I would have needed to hire
someone because the boring bookkeeping would require all my time
insted of having me doing actual work.

>> How do you think something automated should gather
>> a) what customers to invocie
>> e.g. all customers that have a specially marked, unposted invoice that
>> is used as a template.
>>
>> b) what the content of the invoice is to be
>> e.g. mark some past invoice as "to be repeated monthly" with markers
>> like {name of month}, {year}, ...
>>
>> c) what kind of template to generate the printable invoice from?
>> e.g. XSL-stylesheet generating an html-file from the xml of the
>> invoice, OpenOffice-file with markers, ...
>
> I'll note that this part (c) is orthogonal to getting the
> invoice data into GnuCash.

Yes but both parts are needed by a user. To book the invoice
in the gnucash-file and to print it. For the later Gnucash's
templace simply looks horrible.

Marcus