online balance info
Linas Vepstas
linas@linas.org
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:57:24 -0500
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:07:30PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> Personally, I would love to be able to just download=20
=2E..
> [.. QIF ...] (due to problems with Vanguard losing
> information, and Netbank losing inter-account transfer information and
> returning a malformed check information.
>=20
> I would certainly love to see direct OFX import.
two remarks:
1) I've concluded that the est way to deal with OFX import is with scheme
However, I'm a scheme newbie, so this opinion is lightweight. (but=20
still correct!)
2) OFX also seems to loose inter-account transfer info, and has
mal-formed, badly capitalized and cryptic info in 'payee' and
'memo' fields, at least based on samples I've looked at.
Its a bit cleaner than QIF to parse (e.g. it should indicate the
currency of the transaction). But its not a double-entry system;
all you know is that money came, or went, but you are never clear
on to whom, or how or why. You have to guess based on the=20
badly-formatted, badly-capitalized, and possibbly blank 'payee'=20
and 'memo' fields. To maintain consistency, the OFX importer=20
would have to remember how it guessed last time, and hope it can
do the same again. Sigh. And I thought OFX was the answer to=20
all problems.
--=20
Linas Vepstas -- linas@gnumatic.com -- http://www.gnumatic.com/
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