Import bank transactions and mark bill as paid?

[Remi Christiaan Cool]

Derek Atkins schreef:
> Remi Christiaan Cool <moreloci at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Hmm, ok that's not what I hoped for, but it's clear. I don't know what the
>> design philosophy is for GNUCash... but to me it's logical that if you can
>> automate transactions by importing them, you can also pay bills or receive
>> invoices in the same run. A simple checkbox to set the bill or invoice to paid
>> would also do the trick for me ... if it would be incorporated in the import
>> wizzard so that you can select the bills or invoices that are paid during the
>> import procedure would be awesome ;)
>>     
>
> Sounds like a great idea.  I look forward to reading the patch
> that implements it!  :-D
>
> Right now, however, the business features are 100% standalone.  They
> don't require any changes anywhere else, and indeed you can run gnucash
> without the business features at all (although nobody builds or
> distributes gnucash without them).  The design idea was that you could
> distribute a gnucash sans business for those who didn't care about it.
> But that never really happened.
>
> But what it means is that you don't have business object dependencies
> spread throughout the code.  On the downside it means that all the
> business features are collected into one space.
>
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108570
>   
I was waiting for that answer ... you're right but unfortunately I don't 
have the time right now (sounds familiar) and I will have to refresh my 
C knowledge for that too. I'll work around the problem, but small things 
like this will prevent GNUCash to be more widely used by (small) 
businesses.

Remi