Accessing Moneydance data without Moneydance running?
I'd like to run some reporting scripts on Moneydance transactions. Is there any way to access MD data without squeezing my code into a Moneydance extension? Primary reason is that I'd like to present an interactive UI for the report having full control over how it looks (eg. web-based d3js powered).
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1 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 15 Nov, 2020 07:11 AM
You have full Java capabilities if you use Java and launch it inside MD (via an extension). Ditto if you write a Jython (Python) MD script. Failing that you have to export the data.
2 Posted by yacoob on 15 Nov, 2020 07:08 PM
Is the Python environment sandboxed in any way? Can I just open a port and launch a webservice there? Better still - can I generate HTML and have Moneydance display it as a content of report?
I guess my reluctance here is that I know more or less what I'd like to do with the data and how to massage it into format usable with d3.js. I'm less eager to couple the potential UI to MD's API.
3 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 15 Nov, 2020 07:31 PM
Here’s what I know.
- It’s Jython with full access to Java
- you cannot access it outside of MD
- within MD you have full access to just about everything (with some rummaging around)
(A fellow user)
4 Posted by dwg on 15 Nov, 2020 07:43 PM
I'm a fellow user.
On disk Moneydance data is encrypted. Only through Moneydance do you have access to the unencrypted data.
5 Posted by hleofxquotes on 17 Nov, 2020 06:40 PM
@yacoob, if you are will to tinker around a bit (there is some hoops you need to jump through ...), see https://bitbucket.org/hleofxquotesteam/md-maven/wiki/Home which has some information on create a headless runnable instance.
See the "See Also" section at the bottom of the page on an example/prototype using Mike's filedisplay extension.
Melissa closed this discussion on 29 Jan, 2021 09:58 PM.