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David Friedman

Mar 01, 2016 @ 03:43 AM

I am attaching a script I wrote to export selected transactions to a .csv file for generating a spreadsheet. The code loops through all accounts and takes each in turn. When attempting to run this script with Moneydance version 2015.6 build 1299, I got an error message that the method getHighestAccountNum() no longer exists. The existing code sequence is as follows:
 . . .
ra = moneydance.getRootAccount()
 . . .
accts = []
for i in range(0, ra.getHighestAccountNum()):
   acct = ra.getAccountById(i+1) # loop thru acct nums
   if acct == None: # not all are valid
      continue
          . . .
   accts.append(i+1) # build list of acct id's
for id in accts:
   acct = ra.getAccountById(id)
   acct_name = acct.getAccountName()
     . . .

I have looked through the current API and it appears that the "account number" is no longer valid. What is the current recommended approach to get a list of all accounts and loop through them? Thanks in advance for any useful help.

David Friedman
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• list_transactions_for_accounts.py 5.04 KB

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Sean Reilly on Mar 01, 2016 @ 09:28 PM

   

   Hi David,

   Yes, we've cleaned up quite a bit for Moneydance 2015, but to be honest, using getHighestAccountNum() isn't the most efficient way of doing it. I'll chalk this up to our documentation being bad :)

   The best way in Moneydance 2015 is using something like this:

   from com.infinitekind.moneydance.model import *
   
   book = moneydance.getCurrentAccountBook()
   for acct in AccountUtil.getAccountIterator(book):
       print acct.getFullAccountName()
   

   Thanks!

   Sean Reilly
   Developer, The Infinite Kind
   http://infinitekind.com

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2. Sean Reilly closed this discussion on Mar 01, 2016 @ 09:28 PM.