[GNC] Scripted price editing and adding

[Adrien Monteleone]

If I recall, the general advice is you can read, but don’t write.

GnuCash is not yet a true database app. (that is a long term goal) Until then, writing could be potentially very destructive.

There are some projects out there designed specifically to query an sqlite backend of GnuCash for custom reporting. (PieCash comes to mind) I’m not sure about MySQL or XML.

GnuCash has Python bindings so you could roll your own solution. But even then, I think they are query only.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 17, 2020 w3d17, at 8:34 PM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> I’m curious about using sql scripts for read and update operations on Gnucash data when that data is maintained in such a database. For XML, similar things could be accomplished using XSLT or XQuery.
> 
> Has anything along these lines been done?
> 
> --
> Peter West