Generic Import Transaction Matcher empty - revisited

[Des Dougan]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:02 -0500, James Roman wrote:
> I've read the previous thread. Unfortunately after finally getting my
> system updated enough to install the gnucash-1.8.12-3.i586.rpm from
> ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/applications I still can not import OFX files from my bank.
> 
> So here are the details:
> I upgraded to SuSE 10 after having the same issue with SuSe 9.3. 
> Intel Laptop
> Gnucash version: 1.8.12
> libofx version: 0.8.0-3
> Numerous new applications/libraries needed to meet install requirements
> for gnucahs, including aqbanking (built from source rpm), gwenhywfar
> (built from source rpm), libchipcard2 (built from source), openhbci
> (from SuSE), a bunch of XML parsing and internationalization libraries
> 
> In a new gnucash file I was able to import my initial checking OFX file
> from my bank (about 6 months old, containing about 3 months worth of
> transactions) to build my accounts. I import the savings OFX file from
> my bank, and it imports (asking me for an account). The next OFX import
> of my checking, tries to import into savings account. (I think I have
> this issue identified, and a work around identified. My bank identifies
> all account types (checking, savings, money market) under the same
> account number) After, using a bogus account for a savings import, I was
> able to import the next checking account OFX export file into my gnucahs
> checking account. When I go to import the checking account export OFX,
> the Genric Import Transaction Matcher is empty. In the version provided
> with SuSE 10, there was an error if I ran gnucash with --debug. But now,
> I don't see anything of much value. If I run with --loglevel 6, I see
> one message about it discarding transaction due to a duplicate
> transaction number, however, it looks like that is on one record, not
> the entire import. If I use ofxdump on the checking export OFX files,
> after a few unrecognized container entries are noted to standard error,
> I get a full listing of the transactions (Note: I get the same standard
> error messages on the initial working OFX export file.) I notice that
> the entry "Financial institution's ID for this transaction" starts at 1
> and increments for each transaction for each OFX dump. Is this number
> supposed to be unique for each successive transaction?
> 
> Given the effort and additional libraries I needed to find outside the
> distribution, I'm not surprised that a newer version has not been
> included in SuSE (although I attribute it to laziness, without any other
> explanation from them). Can anyone provide some suggestions on how to
> address this?

The RPMs for SuSE 10.0 have been separated. There is a separate ofx RPM:

sempron:~ # rpm -qa | grep gnucash
gnucash-1.8.12-2
gnucash-ofx-1.8.12-2
gnucash-docs-1.8.5-1


HTH,

Des
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