Invoice Importer

[Mike Evans]

On Wednesday June 9 2010 22:44:42 Sebastian Held wrote:
> Am Montag, 7. Juni 2010, 18:17:10 schrieben Sie:
> > On Sunday June 6 2010 22:40:17 Sebastian Held wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010, 10:26:38 schrieb Mike Evans:
> > > > On Saturday June 5 2010 22:29:19 Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > > > Munroe Sollog <sollog at digiraticonsulting.com> writes:
> > > > > > I would like to see what kind of interest there is for an invoice
> > > > > > importer.  I see it on the Wish List page, but I don't see any
> > > > > > discussion about it.  We use a web based invoicing system and
> > > > > > would love to be able to import/dump invoices into GnuCash. 
> > > > > > This would save a lot of time for the bookkeeper.  If our
> > > > > > situation is uncommon then I fully understand this feature being
> > > > > > ignored/postponed/niced. If we are not alone, what have other
> > > > > > people done to solve this inconvenience?  We are currently
> > > > > > entering the invoices in twice (once to GnuCash and once to our
> > > > > > invoicing system).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'd certainly be interested in seeing something that would pull in
> > > > > items out of gnotime (Gnome Time Tracker) and build an invoice out
> > > > > of it.  So yes, something to import invoices would be nice.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -derek
> > > > 
> > > > I track my clients billable time using a mysql based application and
> > > > was hoping do this using the Python interface, so far though I've
> > > > been unable to figure out how to get the python gnucash_business
> > > > functions working.
> > > 
> > > I did some work on this topic already:
> > > http://tellico.dyndns.org/drupal/node/1
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure, if the patch applies to the current development version.
> > > But it may serve as a start point... I've no time to finish the patch.
> > > 
> > > best regards,
> > > Sebastian
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> > Sebastian
> > 
> > I have your patch compiling and running but I need to test the import, do
> > have a test.csv for invoices, or an example of the format it expects?
> > 
> > 
> > Mike E
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I've updated the patch to work with gnucash-2.3.14 (have a look a the
> webpage).
> Example .csv will be delivered tomorrow...
> 
> Sebastian
Hi Sebastian

I've got the import format figured out, I just got initially scared by the 
regex.  
Mike E


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