OFX import

[Brad Haack]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I probably picked the wrong account the 1st 
time, so now I'm stuck w/ some cumbersome recovery steps.

At the risk of insulting someone who donated their spare time on this,
this is really poor.  I hope there is a bug report or product 
improvement suggestion filed for this.  I'll have a look & file one if 
there isn't.  One thing that would help is if there was an option to 
view the transaction in a created transactions tab like there is for the 
scheduled transactions.

Brad

David T. wrote:
> I'll reply back to both lists just for completeness sake...
> 
> I seem to recall a discussion about ways to reset the OFX some time
> back. The solution was to delete the existing account and move the
> transactions into a new account. This new account will have a
> different GUID, and the importer will re-query you. You don't have to
> manually change each transaction from old to new; the delete dialog
> includes the option to change the transactions into a new account.
> 
> David
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/6/09, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> Subject: Re: OFX import
>>  To: bradhaack at yahoo.com Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org Date:
>> Monday, July 6, 2009, 8:47 PM
>> 
>> On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Brad Haack wrote:
>> 
>>> I didn't get any response on the user list, so I'm
>> posting it here also
>>> I turned off bayesian matching & it doesn't seem
>> to make any difference
>>> GC 2.2.6
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to import investment dividends and
>> transactions with the OFX
>>> import feature.   The Generic Import
>> Transaction Matcher doesn't give me
>>> any option to pick what accounts to use, doesn't show
>> me what accounts
>>> it's going to use, and often uses the wrong
>> accounts.  What am I doing
>>> wrong?
>>> 
>>> 
>> An OFX file is defined by specification to contain transactions
>> from only one account. The ofx tag <ACCTID> (or very similar)
>> identifies the account for one side of every transaction in the
>> file. If you have ever imported an ofx file containing the same
>> <ACCTID>, then you have already told gnucash what account is 
>> associated with the split common to all transactions in the file.
>> Gnucash will not ask a second time if it already has an internal
>> account match for a given <ACCTID> from an ofx file.
>> 
>> Also, the first time you import a dividend transaction for a
>> security, gnucash asks you to identify an income account associated
>> with a given stock/mutual fund. You have to be attentive, because
>> the dialog details look a lot like other similar dialogs, and I
>> find it too easy to pick the wrong account instead of an income
>> account. Once you have specified an income account associated with
>> a stock, gnucash won't ask you again (you already told it where the
>> dividend income belongs...).
>> 
>> I suspect that part of the reason it isn't asking you for accounts
>> is that you told it something in previous imports. If you told it
>> something that is incorrect, fixing it is a challenge since there
>> isn't a user interface for those 'settings'. I think you're looking
>> at having to edit the raw xml data, but work with a copy and be
>> very careful.
>> 
>> Dave -- David Reiser dbreiser at earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
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