importing data

tereque tereque at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 21:41:02 EDT 2012


hi

On 31/07/2012 06:17, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Tereque--
>>
>> You surmise (correctly, I believe) that there is no way to import Gnucash data directly into Gnucash, and your spreadsheet solution is probably as good a way as any to achieve your goals.
>
> You could try to use GnuCash2QIF to convert an existing GnuCash file
> into QIF and then import it, but you would have to clear out the
> transactions between each run or you'll have to match duplicates every
> time from all previous imports.
didn't work on first sight (crashing in the process). Will take a closer 
look later


>> That said, I believe that you are seeking to have Gnucash provide you with more of an enterprise solution than Gnucash was designed to provide.
>> Gnucash is primarily meant for single users;requests for it to provide more robust multi-user access (as by allowingmultiple >> file import, or by allowing multiple simultaneous users) 
have met with little enthusiasm.
>
> Yeah, GnuCash really was not designed to solve your problem.  It was
> originally for personal use, and then later added SBHB support, but it
> was always designed with "everyone with access to the books has full
> access to all data".  It's unlikely that will change anytime soon.

I totally could understand arguments being 'there are no sufficient 
capacities to go into that further yet' or 'developers would not want to 
go into that because ...' but 'it was meant to be for single users only 
in the first place...' sounds a little bit weird to me.

Having the whole 'business' section is a statement for meaning 
'business' in my eyes. But what I read through the lines somehow is that 
people seem to not really recognize that as a fact, but more as if it 
would have been 'a little playing around' but not meaning it really 
serious. And I guess there is much more work into the business section 
then just' playing a little around' so it might be worth to go continue 
working on that (I mean in a way not to say that it is just not made for 
business whenever a problem with this is posted). I guess a more 
confident sounding approach towards the 'business' section would be good.

My impressions on that might be not be reflecting the real situation for 
100% as I am following this since a very short time only.

> Your other option is to look at additional software (like Excel, but
> perhaps something better) for transaction entry which can then be
> imported via e.g. QIF.

can you explain a little how that would work? What would be the 'like 
Excel but better' software you refer to? How would I get to produce a 
QIF file out of Excel (or the unnamed 'but better' software)?

many thanks
Bela


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