ofx import

[Larry O'Leary]

The yellow transactions indicate that they are new transactions that will be imported and that no transfer account has been given.  The "zero'ing' effect you are seeing is most likely a result of you selecting the import account as the transfer account for each transaction. 

-----Original Message-----
From: jzaksh <jzaksh at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 2:23 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: ofx import

Hello,

I'm happy to announce I've finally decided to move to gnucash for
finances (I read all the documentation months ago and then never
actually made the move). Anyways, I'm having trouble with OFX import
and just getting started in general. Maybe I don't remember something
after all that documentation I read, but I can't figure out two
things:

1 - can't get a decent import via OFX: a ton of stuff doesn't "match"
-- even though the whole ofx file is from the same online download
with a matching "account code", to correspond with my actual "account
number" -- a whole bunch of the transactions show up as "yellow" with
an explanation that there is no account assigned to the trasnaction.

2 - after this fairly painful OFX import, every single transaction
expands itself inside of GNUcash table's to suddenly have a payment
and a chage. So what was in the "import wizard" as "15 payment", now
shows up as a line with "15 payment" and a line just beneath that of
"15 charge". This essentially cancels out the transaction itself. So
the very end of my file has the same balance as the beginning.

Am I missing something crucial, that I didn't read? Eg.: some basics
of how to use gnucash?

Thanks!
--
jzaksh
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