[ic] Quickbooks integration

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Apr 7 06:32:00 2003


Quoting Nicholas Cook (ncook@foxmillpets.com):
> I'm trying to get the quickbooks integration to work with 4.9.6 but 
> either I'm missing something, or the documentation is incorrect for the 
> usertag section.
> 
> The documentation say's:
> 
> Copy usertags
> 
> If you want to use the UI item import/export, two usertags are required. 
> The easiest thing is just to copy them to the Interchange software 
> directory subdirectory lib/UI/usertag, which is #included as a part of 
> the UI configuration file.
> cd /usr/lib/interchange cp -i extensions/quickbooks/usertag/* lib/UI/usertag
> 
> and also to put the following two lines in your catalog.cfg file.
> 
> Require usertag import_quicken_items
> Require usertag export_quicken_items
> 
> In interchange.cfg is the default of
> # Include individual usertags.
> include usertag/*.tag
> 
> 
> I've tried to copy the required usertags just about everywhere I can 
> think of with no success.  Upon applying changes, this shows up in the 
> catalog error.log.
> 
> - - - [07/April/2003:06:28:57 -0500] - - Required UserTag 
> import_quicken_items not present. Aborting catalog.
>  > In line 6 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
> 
> My questions are:
> 1) Where exactly are these usertag files meant to go?
> 2) Are the entries for the catalog.cfg meant to be UserTag, and not 
> usertag, or does case not make a difference here?  The other "Require 
> UserTag" lines have UserTag with capitol U and T letters, but the 
> referenced usertags have an extension of .coretag instead of .tag.

THey should go anywhere they will be included. In 4.9, that is usually
ICDIR/code/UI_Tag. Or in ICDIR/usertag.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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