Re: evaluation, and first impressions

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On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 16:08 +0100, Alex Loh (BT email address) wrote:
> Apologies if this hits the list twice, I had somehow got signed up with the
> wrong email address..
> 
> I'm Currently evaluating ledgersmb for my employers (our business is rapidly
> expanding and we are outgrowing the IRIS bookkeeping single user software)
> 
> I've set up a demo system on an old PC running Debian Etch, am impressed
> with what I have seen so far..
> 
> A couple of queries (I have looked through the manual)
> 
> 1. I would like to be able to import CSV files for the following:
> 
> - purchase ledger batches
> - sales ledger
> - bank postings 
> - general ledger journals
> 
> How do I go about doing this? In particular one our our systems already
> produces a useful CSV file I would like to import as sales invoices. 
> 

You can import CSV files using phppgadmin (or similar) - this will show
you the column heading for each column, then you "just" put your data in
the appropriate format and import it. However some tables need other
tables to be filled in first, so it's not that straightforward. So far
I've not found any documentation, and it's easy to hit a wall and get
stuck!

> 2. How do you restore the database from backups?
> 

Sorry, can't help there - I've not managed to get anything in to backup
yet!

> Its looking promising but I need to be able to make use of these features to
> justify migrating from our current systems or not using a proprietary
> system.
> 

Indeed, if you can't get existing data in, it doesn't matter how good
the system is.

> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

Cheers
Richard

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