[GNC] Online Banking

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:37 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In GnuCash 3.0, I tried to enable online banking in accessing
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2
> 
> (I had previous made an unsuccessful attempt to do this with 2.6.x).
> 
> The first thing I found was that after launching Tools --> Online
> Banking Setup, I got a popup window that would not close.
> 
> Possibly something is not set up right.
> 
> I see the following:
> 
>> GnuCash now uses AqBanking as a means to handle connections to financial institutions. GnuCash must be configured using --enable-hbci and --enable-ofx in order for OFXDirectConnect to be available. Note: --enable-hbci is really two things at once. It means --enable-aqbanking and --enable-hbci. Although there isn't an --enable-aqbanking per se. But you need AqBanking for DirectConnect, which is why you need to --enable-hbci.
> 
> Hmmm: "why you need to --enable-hbci"
> 
> What does this mean?  Launch gnucash with this parameter?  Put it into
> some configuration file before (or after) building?  And if so, which file?
> 
> And does any of this apply to 3.x?
> 

It means to pass --enable-hbci to configure when building with autotools. The cmake equivalent of --enable-hbci is -DWITH_AQBANKING, and it's on by default, so no, you don't need to do that for 3.0.

Tools-->Online Banking Setup opens the online banking setup assistant. It has two buttons, Cancel and Next, whose location varies depending on I'm not sure what: They're across the top on Debian 9 and in the lower right corner on MacOS. "Cancel" always dismisses the assistant. Is that what's not working for you, or is it after advancing to the second screen and clicking "Start AQBanking Setup" that you get the window that won't close?

Regards,
John Ralls