Extensions for Banana Accounting+

Introduction

By creating an Extension you can add new functionalities to the Banana Accounting Plus software:

• Create your own calculations or reports
  • Interest calculation
  • Statistics on transactions data
  • Report based on special query
• Import data from proprietary file format
  • Import data from a bank file format and automatically assign accounts.
  • Import data from an invoice software.
  • Consolidate accounting data entered with other software.
• Export data in a custom format
  • Create an Export file for the Tax authorities.
  • Export the balances of some accounts in a format ready to be published on internet or inserted in other documents.
• Check the accounting data
  • Test transactions for a particular condition; You can show the rows that didn't meet the condition in a table, or display a message with detailed information to the user.
• Modify the accounting data
  • This functionality called Document Patch is only available on the Experimental version and is still in development.
  • Append, insert, delete or modify transactions.
  • Modify single row's fields, like for example the row's description or the transaction's exchange rate.
  • Import external data and insert new accounts as well as new transactions in one single run.

Install extensions 

In the Banana Accounting Marketplace you find many useful extensions.

• View and Install in Menu Extensions > Manage Extensions

Developing extensions

Extensions for Banana Accounting are written in Javascript and here we get the first resources that give you an idea. 

• Reference documentation 
  • Extension Javascript file 
    This will show you how an extension file is structured.
    • Attributes section
  • Extension package 
    The package allows to pack many extensions together and also include different source and other resource files.  
  • The different Extension's types
    You can create extensions for import, preparing reports, etc.
    • General Extensions 
      For creating reports or changing data.
    • Import Extensions 
      For automatically converting a bank CSV and create accounting transactions.
  • Installation and running
    • Installing and Running Extensions.
  • Introduction do major topics
    • Retrieve and Modify Data 
    • Display & Input
    • File, Import, Export 
    • Debugging
    • Test Framework 
    • Installation & Execute
• Start writing an extension.
  • Build your first Extension
  • Extension for importing transactions from CSV
  • Extension for Creating a Report with a Table
     

• API Documentation
  Fully commented class documentation and examples

  • Extensions API, Namespace, Formats, Versions
  • Banana (Objects)
  • Banana.Application
  • Banana.Document (Accounting)
  • Banana.Document (Base)
  • Banana.Document.Table
  • Banana.Document.Column
  • Banana.Document.Cursor
  • Banana.Document.Row

   

• Developing, Testing and Debugging
  • Debugging
  • Test Framework 

Examples file

• Quick "How To" guides
• On github.com/BananaAccounting you will find the GitHub repository for Extensions.
• On the Embedded Extension JavaScript Tutorial you will find two files that contains different basic examples.