[GNC-dev] Investment position from OFX files

[john]

So I guess you could use it to trigger the "There's balance information in the import, do you want to use it?" dialog and feed the units into the reconcile information dialog. I wouldn't think it worth the effort, but I'm not the sort to spend hours automating something that takes a few seconds once a month to do manually.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Nov 30, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, both of the brokers I use export to OFX and include position data with units, unit price, and market value (of which only the units is really relevant to GC).
> 
> 
> On 11/30/21 3:22 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>> On Nov 30, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Jean L <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Devs,
>>> 
>>> I was looking inside *libofx *and saw that a new callback has been added *ofx_set_position_cb *which can be use to gain information about security positions.
>>> (2021-01-03, LibOFX 0.10.0)
>>> 
>>> I think it'd be really useful to add this to gnc-ofx-import.c as currently, reconciling security positions can only be done manually even when importing transactions from an OFX file.
>>> Do you guys think it's a waste of time? Useful?
>> Very few of the elements in a struct OfxPositionData (https://github.com/libofx/libofx/blob/56e12a3016072204b771d0c4b0d2f4e5a4568a0e/inc/libofx.h.in#L1161) seem relevant to GnuCash.
>> 
>> Does your broker export OFX files with INVPOS elements? If not it will be hard for you to test and harder still to make much use of it. FWIW mine (Charles Schwab) exports only CSV.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>