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Bug 345744 - RFE: command-line option to start import
RFE: command-line option to start import
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Import - Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Christian Stimming
Christian Stimming
: 104183 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-23 12:23 UTC by Josh Sled
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:08 UTC
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Description Josh Sled 2006-06-23 12:23:09 UTC
Would be useful to allow using gnucash as the download handler for .qif or .ofx files from web-banking sites.
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2006-06-26 08:45:30 UTC
However, this is far from trivial. For example, most statement download protocol requires some user interaction, at least for entering of a PIN number or a password. If you try to avoid all user interaction, you would need to pass these things in advance as command line options... which makes gnucash's command line option dependent on the kind of download technique. 

In aqbanking, we have a commandline program (aqbanking-tool) which uses the ncurses interface for PIN/password entering, which means we still need user interaction. In aqbanking it is additionally supported to read a password from a file -- but of course this is a no-no in terms of security, so we don't advertise this a lot. 

Anyway, I'm just saying that IMHO all useful bank download/importing will need some user interaction, and skipping this shouldn't be done because of security reasons. So you would need some really good idea on how to implement this.
Comment 2 Josh Sled 2006-06-26 14:14:03 UTC
Yeah, I don't think this is a UI-less scenario, so much as "run the import druid with this file after initialization is complete".  This would probably imply that the SX since-last-run dialog wouldn't run, as well.
Comment 3 Christian Stimming 2006-07-17 16:04:18 UTC
*** Bug 104183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Rick Yorgason 2015-02-23 04:44:53 UTC
Additionally, if an instance of GnuCash is already open, it should run the import druid on the open instance instead of launching a new instance.
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:08:33 UTC
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