Enhancement request: 'Native' importing of '.CSV' files

[Christian Stimming]

Please file this observation as a bug report in bugzilla, preferably with a 
test OFX file so that this error can readily be reproduced by the developers. 
Thanks!

Christian

Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2009 22:26 schrieb Dave:
> I want to report some observations (bugs?) regarding gnucash's OFX import
> function.
>
> With the import of any OFX file I have tested, there is a reproducible bug.
> The bug shows up in two different ways depending on the content of the
> ACCTTYPE element in the OFX file.
>
> *Case 1:*
> <ACCTTYPE>*MONEYMRKT*</BANKACCTFROM>
>
> This will cause the new account dialog to malfunction such that you cannot
> create a new account while importing the data in this OFX file.
>
> Here is how to reproduce it.
>
> open a newcash file (or make an new file with common accounts).
> file > import > ofx
> choose file
> click import
> At "Select Account" dialog, click "New Account"
> In "New Account" dialog (for USD), notice that the Account Type listbox in
> the lower left contains no items.
> Trying to create an account will result in the error dialog "You must
> select an account type". However, you are not able to select one because
> the listbox is empty.
>
> Notice that account name is "USD" and description is "US Dollar". These
> values are showing up in the incorrect fields.
> Notice also that Security/Currency is correctly populated with USD (US
> Dollar).
>
> This bug totally stops one from importing data for a money market account
> and creating that account anew during the import process.
>
> *Case 2:*
> <ACCTTYPE>*anything other than value in case 1 above*</BANKACCTFROM>
>
> This will cause the new account dialog to fail to properly populate the
> Security/Currency field.
>
> open a newcash file (or make an new file with common accounts).
> file > import > ofx
> choose file
> click import
> At "Select Account" dialog, click "New Account"
> In "New Account" dialog (for USD), notice that Security/Currency is empty.
> It should be populated as in Case 1.
>
> Notice that account name is "USD" and description is "US Dollar". These
> values are showing up in the incorrect fields again.
> Notice also that you can manually select a value for Security/Currency, so
> this bug is not a show stopper but it is an inconvenience.
>
>
> I have tested this for several hours. I don't guarantee that I have covered
> everything or that what I'm reporting is 100% correct. I do not have the
> gnucash source code, so I haven't tried to step through this or do anything
> more than hand-edit some OFX files and see what results gnucash gives when
> I test the OFX import.
>
> I have used OFX files from several different banks, and I have tested with
> different versions of OFX. I'm getting the same results (as reported above)
> each time.
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