On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:35:20 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > >>>>> On 03 Jun 2000 19:11:30 -0500, Bill Gribble
> > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > Bill> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >> I also don't know if there is any way to "export account list" or
> > >> "import account list" I just did a grep through the source and
> > >> didn't see anything that looked too promising.
> >
> > Bill> Just create all the accounts and "Save" a file. That will make
> > Bill> a "template" that anyone can later load into gnucash to get all
> > Bill> the accounts you saved.
> >
> > Ok, I will do that.
> >
> > Bill> If it's important to get a list of all the account names as
> > Bill> text, that would be about 2.5 minutes of Scheme coding.
> >
> > I would be glad to, but I don't want to do a bunch of work that is
> > worthless to others. Where would one find a "complete" chart of
> > accounts to use as an example?
> >
> > Also, 'anyone can later load into gnucash', will those who already
> > have accounts running in gnucash (myself included) be able to load
> > this chart of accounts into gnucash and keep running? That would be
> > the best.
>
> To get that feature, it might be better to make this a scheme function.
> Also, that would allow us to i18n the account names, etc.
Linas is likely to want to thrash me on this, but I'll continue to be
a broken record...
What's needed to support this _well_ is to have a text-based export
that can also be read in.
Rob Browning produced a text export, found in src/scm/text-export.scm,
which generates a Lisp-like output form.
Produce an interface to a Guile parser that can _read_ this form back in,
and it becomes easy to produce lists of accounts in a form that is easy
to load in.
I'm extremely busy on a book project, so I can't volunteer for this now.
If someone else could (Rob?), this would be Quite A Good Thing.
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