OFX connection to Vanguard

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> 
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Dave Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:
> > 
> >> Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>> Have you tried with the OFX Direct Connect?  Or does the limitation
> >>> of AqBanking not support that?
> >>
> >> ofxdirectconnect will connect and download, but aqbanking doesn't yet 
> >> handle securities transactions. (non-reinvested dividends and interest 
> >> work, but not buys and sells)
> > 
> > I was afraid of that.  That's too bad.  I wonder how hard it would be
> > to add that to AqB?  We'd certainly need it if we did QIF import
> > via AqB.
> > 
> > -derek
> Martin Preuss is working on getting aqbanking 3 up and running. When I 
> was digging around in aqbanking looking for the FiId field, I didn't see 
> evidence of the investment handling being added yet, but that isn't a 
> surprise. I'm guessing cstim would have to have time and interest in 
> order for investment handling to make it in before mid to late summer.
> 
> It shouldn't be really hard. Just handling the same fields that libofx 
> does now should bring it up to what gnucash has for file imports, but it 
> would take an understanding of how to fit those into the aqbanking 
> structure (without irritating Martin by distracting him from the 
> aqbanking 3 development...).
Is there any way to import buy/sell transactions if ofxdirectconnect doesn't
support this at the moment? It is better to download via ofx.py first and
import the file to gnucash?

Thanks,
suan

> 
> Clearly beyond my capabilities at this point.
> -- 
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>