Thanks to all for the inputs and suggestions.
It sounds like I could make this work with a number of different paths, but
I'll follow the "read, but don't write" suggestion and defer more of the
analysis to the post-reading side and rely less on things like the built-in
net worth time plot in
A few versions back, I pieced together a Perl script that rebuilt the price
history for a Gnucash SQL file, replacing the existing history table with
monthly prices for the duration that a given commodity was held. It worked fine
for me, and cleaned up years of erratic pricing info, although it
If I recall, the general advice is you can read, but don’t write.
GnuCash is not yet a true database app. (that is a long term goal) Until then,
writing could be potentially very destructive.
There are some projects out there designed specifically to query an sqlite
backend of GnuCash for
I’m curious about using sql scripts for read and update operations on Gnucash
data when that data is maintained in such a database. For XML, similar things
could be accomplished using XSLT or XQuery.
Has anything along these lines been done?
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Peter West
p...@pbw.id.au
Moved with pity, he
On 1/14/20 10:28 PM, Raymond Smith wrote:
Hi, Gnucash list.
I'm interested in using a script to add and edit prices in my Gnucash file.
For example, I'd like to
(a) loop over a file containing historical price data and add prices for
dates where the price is missing because I didn't do a quote
Hi, Gnucash list.
I'm interested in using a script to add and edit prices in my Gnucash file.
For example, I'd like to
(a) loop over a file containing historical price data and add prices for
dates where the price is missing because I didn't do a quote retrieval in
Gnucash that day
(b) loop over
