Simple GnuCash web interface

[Christian Stimming]

Hi James,

thanks for sharing your interesting project here! I think this is a great 
idea. I guess you've already heard our word of caution when accessing 
gnucash's SQL database directly, but on the other hand this is probably 
currently the most effective way to access the data through some other means, 
as you demonstrated here.

Do you have an example web page where one can see this web application live in 
action? That would be very interesting... well, at least I personally would be 
interested to have a look at it, but I don't think I'll install django and a 
gnucash SQL database on my own.

Do you use the gnucash python API for any parts of the data access? I'm 
curious whether this works well enough for a webserver.

Regards,

Christian

Am Dienstag, 6. März 2012, 20:30:54 schrieb James Nylen:
> Hi all,
> 
> I migrated my financial data to GnuCash several months ago.  One of the
> things I wanted for my financial management software of choice is a web
> interface.  So, I have been working on creating a simple mobile-friendly
> web frontend for GnuCash, and I think it is ready to share now.
> 
> The application is written in Python using the Django framework.  It also
> accesses the GnuCash Python API for some features, but this is probably not
> required.  The application currently has the following features, with more
> planned (graphs, budgeting, etc.):
> 
>  - View transactions in a GnuCash account, along with their "opposing
> account"
>  - Filter by opposing account, transaction description, or transaction post
> date
>  - Change the opposing account of any transaction and create rules for
> categorizing future transactions
>  - Import QIF files and automatically categorize transactions according to
> the saved rules
> 
> You'll have to be using one of the GnuCash database backends so that the
> Django code can access your stored data.  The project is in a very early
> stage, so if you want to use it, you should probably be familiar with the
> command line and with setting up an SQL database.  I would be very
> surprised if it worked on Windows, but if you're familiar with Python and
> Django, feel free to try it and share your experiences.
> 
> Find the code and installation instructions here:
> https://github.com/nylen/gnucash-django
> 
> Let me know if you can get any use out of this!
> 
> James
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