All transactions from QIF import listed as unspecified ... me too

[David T.]

Charles--

Thanks for the keyboard tips. I will definitely try them out. I mostly use the OFX importer (in part of older troubles with WIF), but I will take a closer look at what you've got going in 2.2.6. I probably am remembering an older form of the process.

David


--- On Tue, 8/19/08, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: All transactions from QIF import listed as unspecified ... me too
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Donald Allen" <donaldcallen at gmail.com>, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 1:03 PM
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM, David T.
> <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > A small UI point: I find the account selector in the
> importer to be MUCH
> > more annoying than changing an UNSPECIFIED entry in
> the register. This is
> > due to the fact that the importer has no ability to
> use the keyboard to
> > drill down quickly (e.g. "ex:ba:tr" can take
> me to "Expenses:Bank
> > Fees:Transaction Fees"). I have to carefully
> click the little triangle next
> > to each heading (careful now! don't double click!)
> from the top of the
> > hierarchy each time to select. Ugh.
> >
> 
> There is a GTK bug with searching via the keyboard. See bug
> 520165:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520165
> 
> But you still don't have to use the mouse. Use the
> standard Gnome shortcuts,
> like up/down arrow to switch the selected row, + or - to
> expand/collapse,
> and spacebar or enter to make your pick.
> 
> 
> > IIRC, there is no indication in the import window that
> the categories are
> > clickable. At least that's how I remember it in
> Mac OS X. That can be
> > confusing as well.
> >
> 
> Shouldn't be that way any more on 2.2.6. (Maybe even
> 2.2.5 but I don't
> remember.) There is a button saying "Change GnuCash
> Account..." and an
> indicator for how many rows are selected.
> 
> Take a look at the latest version, and if you see any
> simple visual
> improvements that can be made without much effort on my
> part, I'll make
> them.
> 
> As far as rolling QIF into the rest of the importers, there
> probably needs
> to be a wider discussion about that. Using a druid or
> GtkAssistant for the
> importers seems like it would be better than the existing
> series of popups,
> and I see a number of bugs outstanding for some of the
> other importers, a
> number of them critical. I think some bug cleanup needs to
> be done, and
> potentially some GUI redesign, before worrying about moving
> QIF over. Once
> Aqbanking 3 and GnuCash work together on Windows, I might
> try tackling some
> of the OFX bugs and look at GUI cleanup there. But I would
> say that moving
> QIF over is at the bottom of my priority list at present,
> and no one else is
> working on QIF now - but feel free to volunteer!
> 
> Cheers,
> Charles
> 
> 
> > David
> >
> > --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Derek Atkins
> <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> > > Subject: Re: All transactions from QIF import
> listed as unspecified ...
> > me too
> > > To: "Donald Allen"
> <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 9:42 AM
> > > As for txns getting mapped to Unspecified -- you
> just need
> > > to manually
> > > go through and fix them.  Yes, it's a pain,
> but I think
> > > it's a little
> > > easier in the importer than post-import.
> >
> >
> >
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