Imported invoices and other problems...

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Sat May 2 11:41:06 EDT 2009


On May 2, 2009 01:49:16 am defaria wrote:
> Charles Day wrote:
> > Keep in mind that the QIF format is almost completely undocumented. To
> > support importing of QIF invoices, we'd first have to know what that even
> > looks like. I've worked on GnuCash's QIF importer for over a year (two?)
> > and I've never seen a single example. My guess is that you will not find
> > any decent explanation of this anywhere.
>
> Looks like you haven't lifted a single finger in an effort to find out!
> Indeed - do you Google at all? If you did you'd come across
> http://www.google.com/search?q=qif+file+format&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=c
>om.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a. Therein are various links to
> descriptions of the QIF file format including a Wikipedia entry. This is
> not at all what I would term "completely
> undocumented" leading me to wonder how a developer supposedly working on
> the Gnucash's QIF importer would be totally ignorant of such things!!! Is
> it "fully documented" - I'll give you that perhaps it isn't. But surely
> it's not "completely undocumented"! Indeed anybody who gives the issue an
> itoa of thought would realize that you obviously have figured out what's in
> a QIF file, being the guy who maintained the importer and the fact that
> Gnucash does indeed import QIF files. Sure I guess the whole thing could
> have been 100% reversed engineered but even I knew better that that!

I can't find the link now, but I googled yesterday and found a description of 
QIF which also included how invoices are defined.  I don't know whether it's 
accurate or how Quicken maps invoices to that definition, but the information 
is out there.

Phil



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