QIF Import created spurious accounts

Ian Lewis ianmlewis at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 07:18:46 EST 2008


2008/1/3, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
> Hi,
>
> "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > For the record, the default currency for the QIF import druid seems to
> be the
> > default currency for new accounts. This line of thinking comes from the
> fact
> > that the druid seems and the import itself seem to think the currency
> are
> > different things. The druid thinks that the currency is for new accounts
> that
> > get created by the importer, but the import itself uses it as the
> currency for
> > the entire QIF file. This leads to confusing stuff when you are
> importing into
> > accounts that are different than the default new account currency but
> don't
> > actually create any new accounts.
>
> I'd argue that it SHOULD use the "Default New Account Currency"
> and NOT the locale currency.  So in that respect I think the current
> behavior is correct.
>
>
Really? I suppose which currency it chooses as a default is rather arbitrary
but the logic that it should use the default new account currency seems
misplaced if the currency is not used just for accounts created on import.

Ian


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