Importing OFX stuff

Martijn van Oosterhout Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:20:24 +1100


Hi,

My bank allows me to download files in OFX format. I see that there is a lot
of talk about the other features of OFX but simple import doesn't seem to be
there. It doesn't seem to be too hard either.

Anyone have a solution to this?

Anyway, I can do QIF files in the meantime, except the importing process
doesn't work at all. It seems my bank only puts descriptions on the parts of
the transaction but not on the transaction itself. So the nice dialog box
that would let me assign accounts based on the description came up blank and
everything got assigned to a few accounts.

Is there anything simple I can do about that? Reassigning them all by hand
is tedious.

I'm using version 1.6.4-4 as packaged by debian.

PS. I think I found a bug too. When I started up for the first time it
prompted me what currency I usually used (AUD) but it failed to actually set
that as the default in the preferences. All the accounts came out OK though.

Thanks in advance,
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