Other QIF bugs (or misfeatures)

[Bill Gribble]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Well, I can give you the QIF file that this fails on, if you like.
> Basically, I chose "Liabilities:Credit Cards:Chase MC" as my account.
> After import, it generated "Liabilities 2:Credit Cards 2:Chase MC".

Could you try the patch I just sent to -patches?  I think it should
fix this situation.  Basically it's just smarter about account type
compatibility.  You should probably remove the file
~/.gnucash/qif-accounts-map before you run the import, since it has
some misleading info in it and needs to be blown away.

> This does not happen to me.  If I select an account from the account
> picker, the checkbox does NOT go away.  Indeed, the checkbox will even
> appear at times when it wasn't there earlier!  I'm hoping this isn't
> another guile 1.3 badness.

Nope, just a Bill Gribble badness :) This was being detected all
wrong.  Should be fixed now.

> I think the importer should only care about the leaf account type
> and work upwards from the end, rather than downwards from the top.

Well, I *was* being too strict, but Gnucash has real restrictions on
what kinds of accounts can be children of other kinds.  It's important
to make sure the user doesn't end up with an "impossible" account tree
just because some names matched up, or because you told it to do
something impossible which it didn't have enough info to know was
impossible at the time.

> Oh, one more thing that may be an issue: ticker symbols for
> commodities.  If I'm importing a QIF file into an "already existing"
> account, it still asks for commodity ticker symbols.  It would be nice
> if it would just use what's in the account already instead of asking
> my every month when I import my account statement.

haven't fixed this yet.   You're right tho.

b.g.