External Program

[Aaron Laws]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Mark Mercer <markm at woodjoint.ca> wrote:

> Hi, I am setting up gnucash to manage my small business using MySQL.  I am
> a programmer.  I want to write my own program for generating sales receipts
> and I am trying to have that program insert the sale into the gnucash
> database just as if gnucash had create it itself.  But I believe there is
> something about the guid that allows gnucash to differentiate records it
> has created from ones it has not because nothing I create externally is
> showing up in gnucash.
>
> Does anyone know of a way I can do this?  If I just need to use the
> correct function to generate a valid guid please let me know what file I
> should look at to figure out how to do that.  Thanks.
>
> Mark Mercer
>
> I can verify that there is nothing special about the gnucash guid; it's
random. My guess is that you aren't inserting enough data. What table are
you using for the sales receipts? Are these receipts for payments after an
invoice has been issued? In that case, does an invoice exist?