GLADE file doesn't match sources?

[Derek Atkins]

grib@gnumatic.com (Bill Gribble) writes:

> I'm not comfortable with this approach.  This "account name" that you
> are being asked for is the Quicken account name, not the gnucash one,
> and having a "select" button pop up a gnucash account selector implies
> to the user that it's a gnucash account name.

Ahh, it was totally unclear that it was asking for a "Quicken
Account".  It was just asking for a 'Default Account Name'.  Perhaps
we can fix that by making the text a little more clear and explaining
it's a QIF Account, not a GnuCash Account, that is being requested.

> I would be happy to discuss another approach that provides, for
> example, a default account name based on the file name, which is what
> the old importer did.  I just think it's important to keep the gnucash
> namespace and the Quicken namespace separate, since one of the main
> purposes of the QIF importer is to make mappings between them.

This would be sufficient for my purposes.  I'm trying to work towards
a system where I can repeatedly download QIF files from all my banking
institutions and insert them into GnuCash.  Unfortunately the QIF
importer, as it stands, doesn't do what I want.  So, I'm working
(slowly) on a means to have it do what I want.

Defaulting to using the file name would probably be a useful start.
I'd also like to add something whereby transactions are matched based
on GnuCash accounts instead of QIF account/categories.  I'd also like
to add a fuzzy-match such that dates from one source don't need to
match the dates in another.

> b.g.

-derek

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