online balance info

[Derek Atkins]

What category?  There is not enough information to determine which
category to use.  And not all entries that look the same are
really meant to go to the same 'category'.

-derek

Nathan "A." Smith <nasa000@home.com> writes:

> Couldn't we just credit the category?  Since that is already saved -- a
> simple solution already exists.
> 
> Nasa
> 
> 
> On 25 Jun 2001 12:15:59 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:29:06PM -0400, John Klar was heard to remark:
> > > Linas wrote: (2nd point)
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > v1.02 doesn't seem to have a Payee :( and memo looks like whatever string
> > > the payee emitted to your FI
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I'm not seeing this.  
> > > 
> > >  <FITID> should be "unique", but I'm detecting some rollover compared
> > >          to a statement pulled from last year.
> > >  <TRNTYPE> gives me "how" (CHECK,CREDIT,DEBIT,CASH,XFER)
> > >     C&D are electronic
> > >  <NAME> gives me "why" (SH DRAFT,DEPOSIT,PURCHASE,WITHDRAW,
> > >                     TRANSFER TO mumble)
> > >  <CHECKNUM> correlates the check
> > >  <MEMO> includes additional detail.  In the case of 102, this
> > >         is where the PAYEE info is.
> > 
> > Some banks are better than others.   The following from the 
> > gnucash samples driectory, a canadian bank:
> > 
> > <STMTTRN><TRNTYPE>DEBIT<DTPOSTED>20010102225126.000[-5:EST]<TRNAMT>80.00<FITID>2001010201648450<NAME>**PAYMENT THANK YOU - PAIEMENT</STMTTRN>
> > 
> > whazzat? where'd it come from?  why? what memo?
> > 
> > (having the unique id in fitid is indeed batter than what QIF supports
> > and makes it easy to detect multiple instances of teh same trasnaction).
> > 
> > the problem is that gnucash can indeed debit one account by 80,
> > but what account should be credited by a matching 80 ? We'll
> > need to develop some heuristics, or possibly take some ugly default
> > values.   The 'ideal' interface would have some wizard pop up and ask
> > 'hey next time we see one of these 'PAYMENT THANKYOU' things, what 
> > account should we put it in?', and remember the user's answer.
> > 
> > 
> > --linas
> > 
> > -- 
> > Linas Vepstas -- linas@gnumatic.com -- http://www.gnumatic.com/
> 
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