User:Fleminra

Robert Fleming.

Not a GnuCash developer.

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Personal wish list

• Get GnuCash Wiki to Interwiki with Wikipedia to facilitate links like [[Wikipedia:remote procedure call]]
• Viable database back-end. XML's strength is data exchange among heterogenous platforms, which is not really what this part of GnuCash is doing.
• A way to suck in external, repetetive data with minimum of hassle. Requires extensibility and/or non-file-based external software interface. Would like to bypass the (practically) non-deterministic Bayesian import mechanism because in this case the data is consistent and well defined. Would like to do this without downloading/compiling GnuCash or dependent source code. I'm not planning on waiting for my bank/employer's consent before making (my copy of) GnuCash suck in my bank/employer's data.
  • (weekly!) paystub data from employer, including several tax and other deductions. This can be scraped from one of the company's intranet web sites.
  • (weekly!) 401k contributions, spread across several funds. Can be scraped from netbenefits.fidelity.com.
  • utility bills: how much goes to electricy, gas, tax?
• A way to link GnuCash data to/from arbitrary other data, like my relational database that tracks all those electronics rebates, link to e-mails pertinent to a particular account/transaction/split, link to locally archived PDF receipts, link to related photographs, etc. I already link into the GnuCash file using GUIDs and XPath (for the rebate-tracking application), but parsing XML documents on the order of 10 MB is unhealthy for application responsiveness. (see Semantic Web, GNOME Storage.)