about check number heuristics

[Benoit Grégoire]

On Monday 22 January 2007 17:36, Ethy H. Brito wrote:
> Hi
>
> I noticed GC heuristics does not give good scores to my transactions when
> comparing to the imported from my bank.
>
> I am quite sure this is because I am not knowing how to enter the
> transacions in a way GC "likes" it.
>
> Is there some document that describes how to write transactions in such a
> way that make GC heuristics life easier?
>
> As an example, my bank writes (OFX file) the check numbers as "000123" and
> GC uses "123". How to overcome this?

There is not much to do on the OFX side, the check number is defined as 16 
ascii characters, so 000123 is perfectly valid, and different from 123.  So 
the only advice I can give your is to enter 000123 in Gnucash as well.

-- 
Benoit Grégoire
Technologies Coeus inc.
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