Invoice Importer

[Munroe Sollog]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:35:30 +0100, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk>
wrote:
> 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.

Excellent.  Does this mean it can be merged into gnucash before 2.4, or
does the string freeze prevent that?

-- 
Munroe Sollog
System Engineer
Digirati Consulting
www.digiraticonsulting.com