chron job with GC

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Wed Nov 2 14:46:28 EDT 2011


On woensdag 2 november 2011, Dennis Powless wrote:
> Is there a way to click a button and have GC run a report, then print to
> PDF and email via gmail to my wife?
> 
> Would I need to do this external of GC (with linux), or can it be done
> within GC?
> 
> 
Considering the title of your mail referred to cron job, I presume you want 
this to happen automatically at certain time intervals.

GnuCash is a GUI program in the first place. As such it doesn't have any 
graphical user interfaces to install such automated periodic actions.

You could look into the python bindings though and see if they allow you to 
programmatically do what you want to do. Only a small part will be GnuCash 
related (generating the report, printing to pdf), the other steps are more 
generic. I don't what the python bindings are capable of, so I don't know if 
it will be sufficient in this case, but that's the only option I see right 
now.

Geert


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