(fwd) [moneydance] Moneydance 2004 is out!

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:41 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2004 5:10 pm, someone claiming to be Andrew L. Gould 
wrote:
> > On Friday 02 April 2004 03:38 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > Lovely. But due to the problems with migrating gnucash data to
> > > Moneydance, and the fact that gnucash pretty much works for me (except
> > > for the lack of budgeting and look-ahead charting) have resulted in me
> > > abandoning my desire to migrate to MoneyDance. It looks like a nice
> > > product and for someone migrating from a windows-based app, or from no
> > > app at all, it would probably fit well.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tim
> >
> > Would this help any:
> > http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/appendixa_xmlconvert1.ht
> >ml
>
> Hmmm...
>
> > I don't know anything about XML, XSLT or QIF; but if the process creates
> > a QIF file, then you should be able to move gnucash data into one of
> > several applications.
>
> Well, me either. But it does look interesting. If I find the time later
> this weekend, I may give it a go, again.
>
> > You could also move the data file into a postgresql database:
> > http://www.gnucash.org/en/sql.phtml
>
> I've done that, will moneydance read the Postgresql data?

I don't think moneydance will read PostgreSQL data files.  The advantage of 
using a database front-end is the flexibility of output.  Again, you would 
have to be familiar with the needed file format.

Does anyone know where we can find documentation regarding QIF 
structure/definition?

>
> > Once the data is in a database, you can query the data into file formats
> > that are easily manipulated.
> >
> > Best of luck,
>
> Thanks,
> Tim