Help with OFX in Gnucash

[Ngewi Fet]

Hi Derek,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ngewi Fet <ngewif at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > I have a question about OFX which I am implementing for Gnucash Mobile
> for
> > Android and
> > I need help from anyone more experienced with OFX.
>
> Is there a particular reason you chose OFX v. QIF?  The QIF format is
> much easier to create.  The downside of QIF is that you cannot easily
> tell if an import is a duplicate as automatically as you can with OFX.
>
>
Yes, there is:
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2012-April/033857.html
At the beginning of this project, consensus on this mailing list was that
OFX is a better idea
than QIF.



> Also, OFX doesn't allow you to specify a split transaction, but that
> might not apply to you.
>
>
It doesn't.


>  -derek
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Cheers,
Ngewi