Nope, sorry. -derek
Craig Lanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, it's just slow going. It's taking me time to figure out how the > QIF importer works. > > I don't suppose that there is any general "how to build an importer" > documentation, is there? > > Craig > > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:33, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Writing a tab-delimited importer would work... > > > > -derek > > > > Craig Lanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 17:16, Glenn English wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:20, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Where is a description of IIF (and the differences between Mac and > > > > > > Windows flavors)? Google didn't find one quickly. > > > > > > I looked around the Intuit site, but didn't find any kind of formal > > > specification for IIF. (I use QuickBooks 6.0 for Windows.) > > > > > > I have looked through the IIF files that QB produced from my data and > > > found that it is basically a tab delimited file similar to what would be > > > read or written by a spreadsheet program. (OpenOffice.org read it quite > > > easily.) > > > > > > > > No clue. This is part of the problem... > > > > > > > > Another part: Unless I have overlooked something big, "QuickBooks Pro > > > > 5.0 for the Mac" doesn't export transactions. Just the lists of names, > > > > accounts, customers, vendors, etc. No dollars except balances in > > > > accounts. If this is true, an IIF importer wouldn't be much use. > > > > > > I spent some time looking at the export capabilities for QB6 and found > > > basically the same thing. Since the IIF format itself appears to be > > > nothing more than a simplified spreadsheet, it might be possible to > > > build the IIF importer (and provide sufficient documentation) such that > > > it would allow a user to "print" a transaction report to a file in tab > > > delimited form. > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > Might it be reasonable to take a directory full of QB reports and munge > > > > them into a GnuCash xml data file? Or is that the definition of an > > > > importer? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
