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Creating localized Account Hierarchy Templates
Motivation and Overview
Sometimes the standard GnuCash account hierarchy template needs a bigger rework before it fits the requirements of your government - especially for business purposes. In this case it might be better to start by creating a new hierarchy template from scratch.
Depending on your experience and resources there are different approaches:
- Use GnuCash to create a new or adjust an outdated template: #Create an Example File
- and do some Copy&Paste #Adjust the Header #... and the Footer with your preferred text editor.
- If you already have a working file, you want to remove personal data: #Strip data from an existing, uncompressed gnucash xml file
- With some XML knowledge it might be faster to use a text editor to adjust an existing template: #Strip data from an existing, uncompressed gnucash xml file.
- With some programming knowledge adjust #A_sample_script_for_big_templates to generate an account template from a formatted text file of your standard.
- Conventions
- Do not use the colon
:
in account names. It is by default used as account separator symbol. - Mark accounts, which contain subaccounts as placeholder.
- Do not prefix the account name with the account number. There is a separate field for them.
- Try to keep the account names short. You can put more details in the description and notes fields.
- Important
- In all cases you want to run the #Syntax Check before sharing your file.
Create an Example File
Usually you will start with an empty file or a similar - e.g. an older version - template, but it is also possible to strip down the copy of a working gnucash file.
Start with an new empty gnucash file
Create the account hierarchy, which is according your needs.
- Usually you should mark accounts which have subaccounts as Placeholder.
Before you save to file in xml format, uncheck Edit->Preferences->General->Files:Compress Files to get an uncompressed xml file.
FIXME: I am not quite sure whether "Save file" or "Export hierarchy" is the better choice currently. One obvious difference: export saves no transactions, but also other parts will be ignored. (E.g. what will happen with taxtables, but it seems only accounts can be created.)
Strip data from an existing, uncompressed gnucash xml file
You have a nice working GnuCash file and somebody asks for a copy of your template. So you want to remove all your personal data. But you surely want to keep the accounts and in business templates the tax table.
Open the copy of the file with a text editor, preferably one that provides syntax highlighting for xml. Remove unwanted sections:
<book:slots> ... </book:slots>
<gnc:count-data ...> <!-- give you an overview, and should be adjusted at the end -->
<gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">...</gnc:commodity> <!-- remove only foreign currencies -->
<gnc:transaction version="2.0.0">...</gnc:transaction>
<gnc:budget version="2.0.0">...</gnc:budget>
<gnc:GncCustomer version="2.0.0">...</gnc:GncCustomer>
<gnc:GncEntry version="2.0.0">...</gnc:GncEntry>
<gnc:GncInvoice version="2.0.0">...</gnc:GncInvoice>
<gnc:GncVendor version="2.0.0">...</gnc:GncVendor>
<!-- feel free to add that which I missed like employee, price, order... -->
Now run a #Syntax Check.
Convert the Example into a Template
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XSLT is a powerful language for converting XML files into other formats. GnuCash has several XSL files in contrib/xslt. Unfortunately the contrib directory is currently not part of the installation. The XSLs can be processed by the program xsltproc
, which is part of a package libxslt-tools or similar.
Example for a compressed file:
gunzip -c <your gnucash file> | \
xsltproc --stringparam title "Spacecraft project" \
--stringparam short-description "Accounts useful for space exploration" \
--stringparam long-description "A set of accounts useful for space exploration. Implements NASA Standards FOO-1234-BAR and FOO-3456-BAZ for Earth Orbit Satellites, Earth Orbit Space Stations, Solar System Manned and Unmanned Spaceflight, and Interstellar Exploration." \
gnc2xea.xsl -
- For uncompressed files start from line 2.
- gnc-act:exclude-from-select-all (see below) will be set.
- Because there was a change after the xsl was written, you still need to change #... the Body ....
See gnc2xea.xsl in xslt README.
Manually
In case xsltproc fails, you want some adjustments or you want to understand the differences read this section.
Adjust the Header
After you have saved your template, you must manually adjust the first lines (the "header") of your newly created file as follows. Otherwise the "New File Wizard" will not know how to handle your template. The file name itself does not matter (it will not be visible anywhere), but the first lines of the file must contain the following information:
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2 <gnc-account-example
3 xmlns="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/"
4 xmlns:act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/act"
5 xmlns:addr="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/addr"
6 xmlns:bgt="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bgt"
7 xmlns:billterm="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/billterm"
8 xmlns:book="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/book"
9 xmlns:bt-days="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-days"
10 xmlns:bt-prox="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-prox"
11 xmlns:cd="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cd"
12 xmlns:cmdty="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cmdty"
13 xmlns:cust="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cust"
14 xmlns:employee="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/employee"
15 xmlns:entry="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/entry"
16 xmlns:fs="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/fs"
17 xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc"
18 xmlns:gnc-act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc-act"
19 xmlns:invoice="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/invoice"
20 xmlns:job="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/job"
21 xmlns:lot="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/lot"
22 xmlns:order="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/order"
23 xmlns:owner="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/owner"
24 xmlns:price="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/price"
25 xmlns:recurrence="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/recurrence"
26 xmlns:slot="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/slot"
27 xmlns:split="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/split"
28 xmlns:sx="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/sx"
29 xmlns:taxtable="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/taxtable"
30 xmlns:trn="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/trn"
31 xmlns:ts="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/ts"
32 xmlns:tte="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/tte"
33 xmlns:vendor="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/vendor">
34 <gnc-act:title>
35 IGAS-2099
36 </gnc-act:title>
37 <gnc-act:short-description>
38 Intergalactic Accounting Standard, Stardate 2099
39 </gnc-act:short-description>
40 <gnc-act:long-description>
41 This is the Base Module of the Intergalactic Accounting Standard as transmitted on stardate 2099-01-01. You might also need the module "starfleet" or "klingon". ~Cpt. Picard
42 </gnc-act:long-description>
43 <gnc-act:exclude-from-select-all>1</gnc-act:exclude-from-select-all>
44 <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
45 <act:name>Root Account</act:name>
46 <act:id type="new">e24772da4864456b196be5a6301c6756</act:id>
47 <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
48 <act:commodity-scu>0</act:commodity-scu>
49 </gnc:account>
Annotations:
- Line 1: encoding
- You must save your file in the appropriate character encoding and note the used character encoding here! For possible values, see Locale Settings.
- Line 2ff: Namespace
- The parser in GC 2.2.x makes no use of it, but future versions might change.
- Some details can be found in [1] or in gnucash-v2.rnc. Defining the namespace has the benefit, you can check the syntax of your file later with
xmllint
.
- gnc-act:title
- Enter a short, unique Name, which is shown in the table in the "New File Wizard" so that the user can choose this template. This name is usually also part of the filename, but the file name itself does not matter and is never shown to the user. This name is restricted to ONE line.
- gnc-act:short-description
- A one-line description shown in the table in the "New File Wizard"
- gnc-act:long-description
- A somewhat longer description which is shown in a text box in the "New File Wizard" if the user selects this template. This should explain the content and the efficient usage of the template to the user.
- A nice example for the descriptions is in accounts/de_DE/acctchrt_wohnungsw.gnucash-xea, which Google translates to:
<gnc-act:title>Housing Accounts Framework </gnc-act:title> <gnc-act:short-description>Chart of Accounts for the Real Estate Industry (as of 2012) </gnc-act:short-description> <gnc-act:long-description>Chart of accounts for the housing industry according to GdW / Hammonia Verlag (now Haufe), as of 2012 Usage notes: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Wohnungswirtschaft Creator: Christoph Franzen, christoph@(censored).de </gnc-act:long-description>
- Note the link to the wiki with more details!
- gnc-act:exclude-from-select-all
- Indicates whether this template should be selected if the user clicks the button "Select All". The business-related templates are probably rather special and should not be mixed with a general home-user account structure, so you should probably enable this flag by writing a "1" in here.
- Root Account
- Only the base module should have exactly one.
- Because it is only used internally, do not translate it!
- The accounts in the optional modules linked over <act:parent type="new">...</act:parent>
If you decide to copy&paste this template, please replace the root guid by a self generated with
- either:
uuidgen | sed -e 's/-//g'
- (Dependencies: uuidgen is part of util-linux and sed has its own package)
- or use an online uuid generator like this one (any other one will do as well). Be sure to untick "Hyphens" to generate gnucash compatible guids. If you forget to untick it, or you use a site that doesn't offer this option, simply remove the hyphens yourself.
.
... the Body ...
Note how the account hierarchy is defined by each account having a "globally unique identifier" (guid) as the value of its act:id element. E.g 5df07084fb48f599732df308a71d8246 in the case of the root account. Any child account refers back to its parent by having the parent's guid as the value of its act:parent element.
1 <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
2 <act:name>Root Account</act:name>
3 <act:id type="guid">5df07084fb48f599732df308a71d8246</act:id>
4 <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
5 </gnc:account>
6 <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
7 <act:name>Child account</act:name>
8 <act:id type="guid">03a869e21f475e8e7a0688e32035ee9a</act:id>
9 <act:type>ASSET</act:type>
10 <act:commodity>
11 <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
12 <cmdty:id>SEK</cmdty:id>
13 </act:commodity>
14 <act:commodity-scu>100</act:commodity-scu>
15 <act:parent type="guid">5df07084fb48f599732df308a71d8246</act:parent>
16 </gnc:account>
When GnuCash creates a new file (book) based on an account hierarchy template, these guids should be replaced by new ones, to ensure there are no collisions, for example if several templates are combined when creating the book. Therefore you should change the value of the type attribute for the act:id and act:parent elements like this, as an indication that new guids should be generated:
<act:id type="guid"> / <act:parent type="guid">
<act:id type="new"> / <act:parent type="new">
Make sure you leave the actual guids intact, as the parent-child relations would otherwise break.
From 2.6.2 commit Replace type="guid" with type="new" in gnucash-xea files: Having type="guid" causes the accounts created from the file to use the example GUID instead of generating a new one.
And if you used the XSLT, replace all occurrences of
<slot xmlns="">
<slot>
From Comment 19 of Update of "wohnungsw" template.
This is an sample shell script doing the conversion and replacing the above mentioned parts after that:
#!/bin/sh
BAK=`date +%Y%j%H%M%S`
for D in $@
do
KRXEA="$D.xea"
if [ "$D" = "KRI" ]
then
KRXAC="$D.xac.gz"
TITLE="Kontenrahmen für die Wohnungswirtschaft"
SHORT="Kontenrahmen für die Immobilienwirtschaft (Stand 2012)"
LONG="Kontenrahmen für die Wohnungswirtschaft nach GdW / Hammonia Verlag (jetzt Haufe), Stand 2012
Hinweise zur Verwendung: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Wohnungswirtschaft
Ersteller: Christoph Franzen, christoph@alte-pflasterei.de"
elif [ "$D" = "SKR49" ]
then
KRXAC="$D.gnucash"
TITLE="Kontenrahmen SKR49 für Vereine, Stiftungen, gGmbHs"
SHORT="Datev-Kontenrahmen SKR49 für Vereine, Stiftungen und gemeinnützige GmbHs"
LONG="Ein Kontenrahmen für Vereine nach dem SKR49 der Datev
Bei Gebrauch dieses Kontenrahmens sind die allgemeinen Konten abzuwählen.
An dem Rahmen sind selbstverständlich noch Anpassungen erforderlich,
bis man den seinen Bedürfnissen entsprechenden Kontenplan hat.
Hinweise zur Verwendung: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/SKR49
Ersteller: Michael Braun 2009, michael-developer@fami-braun.de
Formalia für GnuCash-Vorlagen: Frank H. Ellenberger 2009
Erweitert auf den Stand 2018: Christoph Franzen 2017-2018, christoph@alte-pflasterei.de"
else
exit
fi
done
mv "$KRXEA.gz" "$KRXEA.$BAK.gz"
gunzip -c $KRXAC | xsltproc --stringparam title "$TITLE" --stringparam short-description "$SHORT" --stringparam long-description "$LONG" gnc2xea.xsl - | sed -e "s/act:id type=\"guid/act:id type=\"new/g" > "$KRXEA.tmp"
sed -e "s/slot xmlns=\"\"/slot/g" < "$KRXEA.tmp" > "$KRXEA"
gzip -N9 "$KRXEA"
Close to the end of the file, you should replace
</gnc-v2>
by
</gnc-account-example>
.
Clean up
Depending on the way you created the template, there can be some redundant elements in your template. If you are unsure, you can ask the maintainers to do this part for you.
Unwanted Elements
- Slots
- Information about Online Banking is different for each person. Example FinTS/HBCI:
<slot> <slot:key>hbci</slot:key> <slot:value type="frame"/> : </slot>
- Account Colors are a question of personal taste:
<slot> <slot:key>color</slot:key> <slot:value type="string">...</slot:value> </slot>
Elements with Default Values
- Slots
- Empty notes:
<slot> <slot:key>notes</slot:key> <slot:value type="string"></slot:value> </slot>
- Unset Placeholder flags:
<slot> <slot:key>placeholder</slot:key> <slot:value type="string">false</slot:value> </slot>
- Account Elements
- Finally, if you removed slots, you can end with an empty slots element in some accounts:
<act:slots> </act:slots>
- If you find them, you can remove them.
בדיקות
From time to time you should check the syntax and finally by using your file in GnuCash.
בדיקת תחביר
Finally you should run
xmllint --noout <mytemplate>
to verify the syntactical correctness (std well-formed check) of your file. No output means that no errors were found.
If xmllint is missing on your computer see Translation#Prerequisite.
Committers can use in the respective directory:
for i in *-xea; do echo $i; xmllint --noout $i; done
בדיקות בגנוקאש
- If you are using Git (after adding it to the repo and make) do a normal
make && make install
. - Otherwise locate the template directory on your system - it might be /usr/share/gnucash/accounts/<yourlocale> or similar. As administrator copy it there in. Warning: This is a dirty hack which your distributor will discourage.
Now start Gnucash, select New file..., select your template and try every possible and impossible operation.
A sample script for big templates
If the template is really big - as the german one - and you have it as a text file, it might be less work to adjust the following script from [2] to create the gnucash template. There are tools available on the internet and probably on your computer to convert often used formats such as PDF to plain text files e.g. pdf2txt.
#! /bin/bash
# This application takes a text input file $FILE
# and converts it into a gnucash account scheme with a random name.
# The input file is read line by line where each line
# should be formatted as
# number name (no leading spaces)
# or
# category name (one leading space)
# .
# Empty lines are not allowed, number is expected to have 4 digits.
# The output is a two layer structure
# of all accounts. Whenever the first
# digit of number changes, a new source group is created.
# Whenever a new category line is passed, all following
# accounts are put below.
#
# Example:
# input:
# 1234 A
# 2000 B
# Type B1
# 2001 B1a
# 2002 B1b
# Type B2
# 2010 B2a
# 2011 B2b
# output:
# Class 0
# Class 1
# \- 1234 A
# Class 2
# \- 2000 B
# \- Type B1
# \- 2001 B1a
# \- 2002 B1b
# \- Type B2
# \- 2010 B2a
# \- 2011 B2b
#
# (C) 2009, Michael Braun, michael-developer@fami-braun.de
# Distributed under GPL v3.0 or newer.
# see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html for details
echo "start"
FILE="<source>.txt"
if [ ! -f "$FILE" ]; then
echo "no such file $FILE"
exit 1;
fi
getuid()
{
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 2>/dev/null | md5sum | awk -F' ' '{print $1}';
}
OUT="$(getuid).gnucash"
ROOT=$(getuid);
NUM=$(cat $FILE | wc -l)
NUM=$(expr $NUM + 1);
ID=0
echo -n > $OUT;
cat >> "$OUT" <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<gnc-account-example
xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc"
xmlns:gnc-act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc-act"
xmlns:act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/act"
xmlns:book="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/book"
xmlns:cd="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cd"
xmlns:cmdty="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cmdty"
xmlns:price="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/price"
xmlns:slot="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/slot"
xmlns:split="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/split"
xmlns:sx="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/sx"
xmlns:trn="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/trn"
xmlns:ts="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/ts"
xmlns:fs="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/fs"
xmlns:bgt="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bgt"
xmlns:recurrence="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/recurrence"
xmlns:lot="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/lot"
xmlns:cust="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cust"
xmlns:job="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/job"
xmlns:addr="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/addr"
xmlns:owner="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/owner"
xmlns:taxtable="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/taxtable"
xmlns:tte="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/tte"
xmlns:employee="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/employee"
xmlns:order="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/order"
xmlns:billterm="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/billterm"
xmlns:bt-days="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-days"
xmlns:bt-prox="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-prox"
xmlns:invoice="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/invoice"
xmlns:entry="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/entry"
xmlns:vendor="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/vendor">
<gnc:count-data cd:type="account">$NUM</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
<act:name>Root Account</act:name>
<act:id type="new">$ROOT</act:id>
<act:type>ROOT</act:type>
<act:commodity-scu>0</act:commodity-scu>
</gnc:account>
EOF
LAST=0
CURR=$(getuid);
CURRSUB=$CURR;
addkontenklasse() {
echo
echo -n "add kontenklasse $LAST";
cat >>"$OUT" <<EOF
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
<act:name>Kontenklasse $LAST</act:name>
<act:id type="new">$CURR</act:id>
<act:type>ASSET</act:type>
<act:commodity>
<cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
<cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
</act:commodity>
<act:commodity-scu>100</act:commodity-scu>
<act:description>Erträge</act:description>
<act:slots>
<slot>
<slot:key>placeholder</slot:key>
<slot:value type="string">true</slot:value>
</slot>
</act:slots>
<act:parent type="new">$ROOT</act:parent>
</gnc:account>
EOF
echo " done";
}
addkontenklasse;
addkontengruppe() {
echo
echo -n "add kontengruppe $1";
cat >>"$OUT" <<EOF
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
<act:name>$ID $1</act:name>
<act:id type="new">$CURRSUB</act:id>
<act:type>ASSET</act:type>
<act:commodity>
<cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
<cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
</act:commodity>
<act:commodity-scu>100</act:commodity-scu>
<act:description>$1</act:description>
<act:slots>
<slot>
<slot:key>placeholder</slot:key>
<slot:value type="string">true</slot:value>
</slot>
</act:slots>
<act:parent type="new">$CURR</act:parent>
</gnc:account>
EOF
echo " done";
}
addkonto() {
cat >>"$OUT" <<EOF
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
<act:name>$1 $2</act:name>
<act:id type="new">$(getuid)</act:id>
<act:type>ASSET</act:type>
<act:commodity>
<cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
<cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
</act:commodity>
<act:commodity-scu>100</act:commodity-scu>
<act:description>$2</act:description>
<act:code>$1</act:code>
<act:parent type="new">$CURRSUB</act:parent>
</gnc:account>
EOF
}
while (true); do
LL=$REPLY
read
if [ "x$REPLY" = "x" ]; then
echo
echo "end of file after $LL";
break;
fi
REPLY=$(echo "$REPLY" | sed 's/\s\+/ /g');
KTOID=$(echo "$REPLY" | sed 's/ .*//');
NAME=$(echo "$REPLY" | sed 's/^[0-9]\+ \+//');
if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then
NAME="dummy";
fi
#echo "$REPLY => $KTOID | $NAME";
echo -n "$KTOID "
if [ -z "$KTOID" ]; then
CURRSUB=$(getuid);
ID=$(expr $ID + 1);
addkontengruppe "$NAME";
else
if [ $KTOID -gt "$LAST"999 ]; then
# new cat
LAST=$(echo $KTOID | sed 's/\(.\).*/\1/');
CURR=$(getuid);
CURRSUB=$CURR;
ID=0
addkontenklasse;
fi
addkonto "$KTOID" "$NAME";
fi
done < "$FILE"
echo "</gnc-account-example>" >> "$OUT";
echo "done: written to $OUT"
Annotations
There are a few terms in the script, you might wish to adjust or at least understand:
- Kontenklasse: account class, first level in the account hierarchy.
- kontengruppe: account group, lower node in the tree, but not a leaf.
- Both above are placeholders.
- Konto: account.
- Erträge: earnings.
- <cmdty:id>: 3-letter ISO-currency symbol.
- <act:commodity-scu>: smallest currency unit, in most cases 100 {C/S}en[t]*|P[f]en* or whatever.
Eventually you wish the account code $1 only in <act:code> and not in <act:name>.
Exporting an existing account hierarchy
You can create an account hierarchy template using this method.
- You already have a account hierarchy in a gnucash file, but you want to export a subset
- Go to file > export > export the xml
- Select the subset you want from the xml as a starting point
- Change the file xml structure according to the rules defined on this page
- Take care when you change the xml file: ids and other information may conflict with your current account hierarchy
- Put the xml file you edit in /usr/share/gnucash/your_language/yourfilename.gnucash-xea
- Restart Gnucash
- Use the New Account Hierarchy wizard to import your new account hierarchy
Future Development
This section is intended for developers.
Make Check
As shown above we can use xmllint
to validate the syntax of account templates, if they include the namespace header. PR Adjustment of Account Hierarchy Templates. #300 now shows, we should at least determinate the direction.
- If we want this, we have to adjust the old files.
- If a template got modularized, should all parts get the full header (like above) or
- use DOCTYPE definition like
<!DOCTYPE gnc-account-example ... [ ... ]>
- with PUBLIC
<!DOCTYPE gnc-account-example PUBLIC "FIXME" "http://www.gnucash.org/XML/" [ ... ]>
- or SYSTEM
<!DOCTYPE gnc-account-example SYSTEM "libgnucash/doc/xml/FIXME.dtd" [ ... ]>
- with PUBLIC
- Were there changes in the current parser required?
- Would it be worth the huddle?