QIF importer bug in GC 2.2.2: stocks -> commodities

[Charles Day]

On Jan 4, 2008 5:08 AM, William D. Hamblen <William.D.Hamblen at dartmouth.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This seems to only affect importing commodities and only if you have
> records in the "map from QIF stock name to GNC commodity" section of the
> qif-accounts-map file.  If it's empty, no problem.
>
> When you do have data in the commodity section of qif-accounts-map, the
> importer GUI no longer asks you to confirm the name, type, and symbol
> for commodities and no commodities/securities are created in GnuCash.
> This leaves the corresponding accounts in GC a bit incomplete.  There
> are no "units" for the account so the balance is 0 until you create a
> security for it.
>

I've been seeing this problem with my import attempts too.

I've attached a simple QIF file that demonstrates this.  Delete or
> rename your .gnucash/qif-accounts-map file and start GnuCash with an
> empty file.  Import the QIF file.  Optionally change from NYSE to NASDAQ
> (where INTC is traded). Apply the import.  The importer will dutifully
> record INTC in qif-accounts-map. The security editor will show Intel as
> a stock.  The stock account has a balance of 1 share on INTC.  Life is
> good.
>
> Now you have a qif-accounts-map.  Exit and do the import again (into a
> new empty file).  This time you will not be asked about securities and
> none will be created.  The stock account will have a zero balance (until
> you create a security for it).
>
> I think on my real data the importer was ok if everything was set to
> NYSE (that's why in the example I included the step to change to NASDAQ)
> but that doesn't seem to be true for this test file.  I'm a little
> confused by that.
>
> On a related note, if you select commodity type FUND the account type
> gets set to Stock but probably should be Mutual Fund.
>
> Unless somebody tells me not to, :-), I'll try to put together a bug
> report and file it this weekend.
>

Sounds good to me,
Charles


>  - Bill
>