ofxdirectconnect in aqbanking3 branch

[David Reiser]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Andreas Köhler wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Mi, 2008-07-23 at 15:36 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>> On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Andreas Köhler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> On Mi, 2008-07-23 at 14:40 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>>>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:56 AM, Andreas Köhler wrote:
>>>>> Does it ask you for the same online id which is showed at the  
>>>>> top of
>>>>> the chooser?
>>>>> Typically, it should ask for a combination "bank code" + "account
>>>>> number" only once.
>>>>
>>>> with 17400, gnucash now asks me to select an account for  
>>>> "" (there is
>>>> nothing on the second line of the dialog heading where the "Credit
>>>> Card XXXXXXXXXXXX1234" used to appear.
>>>>
>>>> And I'm still asked to select an account each time I import
>>>> transactions.
>>>
>>> I simply copied the code available in the hbci import-export  
>>> module to
>>> determine a gnucash account for an accountinfo in context returned  
>>> by
>>> aqbanking.  It simply concatenates the bank code and account number
>>> given, and can be found in
>>> src/i-e/aqbanking/gnc-ab-utils.c:gnc_ab_accinfo_to_gnc_acc().
>>>
>>> It seems as if both these items are empty for you, but I do not know
>>> whether that is a bug or not. Maybe the bank name could be added as
>>> well, but the outcome probably depends on whether that field  
>>> contains
>>> useful data for you.
>>
>>
>> Hmm. Something is not right. Neither the bank code nor the account
>> number are empty according to the aqbanking setup wizard.
>
> I suppose that the numbers visible in the setup wizard are only to
> considered similar to those returned by the bank when fetching
> transactions.  But Martin will know it better than me.

I was misunderstanding where the items were being extracted. For a  
credit card account (and probably investment accounts), there will be  
no bank code in the ofx data stream. But the ACCTID does appear, and  
does match exactly.

Dave
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