CSV Imports

[David Carlson]

Nick,

The CSV import assistant in release 2.6 series is not able to import files
created by GnuCash.

This is a known problem which will be corrected when the 2.8 release  comes
out.

That release will change the data file structure in a way that will not be
readable by older releases of GnuCash.

David C

On Oct 24, 2017 12:48 AM, "Nick Judd" <n.clark.judd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been using Gnucash for personal accounting for the last couple of
> years. I have questions about CSV imports relevant to this thread:
>
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2017-March/069914.html
>
> 1. Using Gnucash 2.6.18, my experience is that it is not straightforward
> to import transactions from CSV using a CSV /I have generated using
> GNUCash/, into exactly the same account structure.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> 2. Looking over previous threads, I understand that Gnucash's CSV import
> cannot really handle multi-split transactions. I need multi-split
> transactions and I can code well in Python but am useless in Gnucash's
> native C/C++. The solutions that immediately come to mind are trying to
> shoehorn the data in using Gnucash's Python API (bad) or to use Python to
> reshape the CSV into a more Gnucash-friendly object (easier -> better).
> However, the threads I have seen focus more on the general notion that CSV
> import really isn't going to be ready for prime time until 2.8 than on the
> kinds of things CSV import can currently do well. I am interested in the
> latter.
>
>
> Apologies for retreading ground that I am sure comes up a lot. Thanks for
> your help.
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Nick Judd
>
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