<BALAMT> element in OFX files

[Benoit Grégoire]

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On Friday 23 April 2004 04:44 pm, Andrew Barr wrote:
> Hello all--
>
> I am downloading .OFX files from my financial institution to import
> accounts from their online banking service into GnuCash. It does not
> seem that GnuCash is using the <BALAMT> element to set the opening
> balance when I create a new account for the data in the file. Is this
> the way it's supposed to be or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for
> any help anyone can offer.

No, you are not doing anything wrong.  GnuCash doesn'tcurrently do anything 
with the balances sent in the OFX file.

It's a very reasonnable feature request however.  You should put it in 
bugzilla.
- -- 
Benoit Grégoire, http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/
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