On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Simon Michael <si...@joyful.com> wrote:
> Hi Stefano, I agree. Many things should be more straightforward and > better documented. > > I think we could pick out a few common tasks to focus our > tool-building/documenting efforts on. Eg: > > 1. importing bank data and CSV generally. All of the tools and basic > generic workflows for this should be described on one page. Focus on > CSV, but we should mention OFX too (ledger-autosync is arguably best at > this with its download feature). > FWIW, there's a generic OFX converter in LedgerHub as well. https://bitbucket.org/blais/ledgerhub/src/261b5c29ddc37fd44fe7bba83ad906e41aab47dc/lib/python/ledgerhub/ingest/importers/ofx.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default (I'm planning to keep that importer in the LedgerHub revamp as a default and example, and will likely include a configurable CSV importer as well.) > 2. exporting all data and reports as CSV > > 3. moving data between the ledger-likes (ledger, hledger, beancount...). > Again, all tools and techniques gathered on one page. All existing > formats should be listed. The output of "ledger print" is a sort of > lowest common denominator, I propose we give it a name and decree that > every tool should import this as a basic interchange format. And/or a > standardised CSV representation of it, such as "hledger print -O csv" > Beancount has reports to convert from its syntax to Ledger and HLedger. Defined here: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/d1d2ef0f1b6faf7bafdadc0f3a6ea20515df5ff5/src/python/beancount/reports/convert_reports.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default Converting from Beancount to Ledger in a non-lossy way is possible because of the nature of dated assertions, but not possible the other way around, you have to drop the file-based assertions. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
