QIF Import created spurious accounts

[Ian Lewis]

CCing the list.

2007/12/12, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
> "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> Not particularly; the QIF currency should matter.
>

I agree but since the QIF currency might not match the locale currency, you
should be able to select the QIF currency during import. There seems to be a
part of the QIF import druid for this but it never seems to come up for me.
The QIF import druid just uses the locale currency.

Anyway, I just thought that since importing a QIF into an account whose
currency that wasn't the same as the QIF currency, unless you wanted to set
the currency conversion rate for each transaction, so why not use that?
Though I would be happy if the QIF import druid asked me for the QIF
currency during import so I could select it rather than having to change my
currency in the preferences, import the QIF, and then change it back.

BTW: By locale currency were are talking about the currency that is set in
the preferences dialog (defaults to locale currency) right?

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Ian Lewis
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