QIF Import created spurious accounts

[Ian Lewis]

2007/12/11, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
> "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I figured out that it created the new accounts as Japanese Yen (my main
> > currency is in Yen) even though I was importing into accounts that are
> in
> > American Dollars. How does the QIF importer select the currency? It
> never
> > gives me a prompt to select it if I just go strait through. Another
> strange
> > thing is that if I hit the back button towards the end it takes me to
> it.
>
> It uses your locale currency.


Hmm.  Selecting an account that has different currency than the locale
currency makes gnucash do things I wouldn't expect. It creates a new account
with the locale currency instead of using the currency of the account that I
selected. Wouldn't using the currency for the account that I selected for
importing that file make more sense?

> Something like,
> > Select File -> Select Account Name -> Add other files -> Select QIF
> Accounts
> > -> Select Category -> Select the accounts the payments go to -> Apply
> screen
> > <- Empty duplicates screen <- Select currency.
>
> Yeah, this is definitely a bug in the druid.  Could you file a
> bug report on this, please?


Filed as Bug #503166 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503166)

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