Bug in QIF importer

[Derek Atkins]

What type of account is the QIF import?  I noticed that if the
QIF file contains equity trades (stocks or mutual funds, for
example), then it will automatically create a sub-account for
that commodity.  For example, if your QIF file has trades of
e.g. '500Idx', and you tell the importer that it belongs in
gnucash account Foo:Bar, it would create Foo:Bar:500Idx.

Whether this is a bug or not is questionable -- how should the
importer behave if you've got trades of multiple commodities in the
same "QIF account" file?

-derek

Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au> writes:

> Hi,
> Played around with the QIF importer in 1.6.4 today for the first time.
> 
> When importing into an already existing account that has a : in the 
> account name, the importer creates new accounts. For example, my account 
> tree (as relevant) looks like the following (Using '/' for the account 
> seperator):
> Asset/Cash/CBA: Water Sprite main
> When I select that account, the importer creates an account called:
> Asset/Cash/CBA/CBA: Water Sprite main
> and puts the transaction in that account.
> 
> Perhaps we need to disallow ':' (or more generally, the account 
> seperator character) in account names and/or make the QIF importer able 
> to cope with this.
> 
> Conrad.
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