[GNC] GNUCash & Macros

[will at theprescotts.com]

The "Script Editor" found in the Applications->Utilities folder under Mac OS has some capabilities that might help. You can tell it to track a series of actions that turn into a script that can be edited for refinements and then used as a 'Macro'.

Will 

On 2021 May 26, at 05-26 17:56:16, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

Unfortunately that's a Windows app.
I'm OSX or Linux user.

On 5/26/21 12:04 PM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> You could look into AutoHotkey.  I use it to automate other non-GNUCash things, but I don't see why it couldn't work, especially if you can do what you need to do via keystrokes.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:15 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
> 
>    HI,
> 
>    On Wed, May 26, 2021 11:09 am, Jack Frillman wrote:
>    > I have repetitive task I do every day and I would like to reduce the
>    > number of steps to do that task.
>    >
>    > More specifically I import stock/mutual fund and precious metal
>    prices
>    > from a CSV file. Currently I go through the multi-step process
>    the GUI
>    > walks you through. This is easy enough but I can be ultra lazy
>    at times
>    > and would like to execute that import process using a macro if
>    possible.
> 
>    Thank you for explaining what you'd like to do. Unfortunately, no,
>    there
>    is no way to automate those processes in the UI.  The closest
>    thing you
>    can do is write some scripts (in Python) to do the work.
> 
>    -derek
> 
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