[GNC] Are there any add-on modules for Gnucash

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Fri Feb 22 05:10:59 EST 2019


Sorry for my misunderstanding. Certainly, I can see that limitation.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 22, 2019, at 2:38 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op donderdag 21 februari 2019 22:03:11 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone:
>> While there is the option to use a database backend, there is currently no
>> support for *writing* to the db from anything other than GnuCash, it should
>> only be read. (this will be possible eventually)
> 
> I can't remember we ever said it would be possible to write to the GnuCash db 
> from outside of GnuCash. That would mean that **all** accounting constraints 
> should be encoded in the db data structure. I don't think that's possible. 
> Take for example the simple constraint that transactions have to balance. 
> There is no way to encode that in a db data structure.
> 
> What we did state is that eventually multiple users can connect to the same 
> database through separate gnucash instances.




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