Invoice Importer

[Mike Evans]

On Thursday June 10 2010 13:23:23 Mike Evans wrote:
> 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
New patch seems to work fine.


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