OFX and investment account imports

[Derek Atkins]

David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:

> Anyway. Enter the OFX download. Ameritrade (probably like everyone
> else) includes CUSIPs in the ofx file. LibOFX prefers the CUSIP to the
> ticker symbol as an identifier. On import, libOFX asks me to choose or
> create a commodity to match the security being imported at the moment
> -- showing the ticker symbol and CUSIP of the item for which it wants
> a match. So I choose my manually defined commodity, matched by ticker
> symbol, and then the appropriate account. And then libOFX imports the
> transaction as 7840.99 shares priced at 1 dollar per share.
>
> If I delete the offending transaction, manually paste the CUSIP into
> the commodity and account definitions, and reimport the same ofx file,
> the transactions import correctly.
>
> I think it's a bug that libofx can ask for a commodity and account, be
> given commodity and accounts with type=stock, and still import the
> transaction incorrectly. Perhaps it is an enhancement request that the
> importer ask me if I want to fill in the blank CUSIP on my commodity
> to match the apparently identical security in the import file.

Sounds like you should go to bugzilla.gnome.org and file a bug report on
this.  Hopefully Benoit will have time to look at it. ;)

-derek
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