Mass invoicing

John Griessen john at cibolo.com
Fri Oct 24 12:54:27 EDT 2008


Kevin Buckley wrote:

> The "trick" is to either have a GUID generator create
> any you need on the fly, or, as i did it, decide on a format
> for your GUIDS in advance and fill in bits of it with
> sequential data. OF course, you need to ensure the
> GUIDs are unique but I can be done.
> 
> For example, a GUID representing something to do with
> Flat 2, might have the string
> 
> f1ac02
> 
> in it and furthermore might have the year and month
> coded in
> 
> 200701f1ac02
> 
> This is not to say that you should rely on the info
> encapsulated in the GUID but it does make external
> generation easier
> 
> loop over 01 02 03 .. 12
>    printf "<randomchars>2007%2df1ac02<randomchars>"
> 
> will give you twelve monthly GUIDs for some purpose.
> 


Do you run your script with gnucash closed and merge the blocks of XML into the gnucash file
then open it?

Would you share your perl script?

Thanks,

John Griessen



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