QFX Importing - Change Descriptions?

[Jason Dostal]

Thanks Derek.  I noticed last night that the Quickfill entries seemed to 
  be picking up on the proper names.

I'll look at putting a quick script together to process my OFX files. 
Easy enough to do a bunch of search/replaces on the file.

Jason

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jason Dostal <jdostal at charter.net> writes:
> 
>> When I import QFX files from my bank, I'd like to automatically 
>> translate the banks fairly cryptic descriptions of the transactions into 
>> my friendly names, eg -
>>
>> DDA TRANS 5555 ANY ST
>>
>> To
>>
>> My Local Grocery Store
>>
>> Anyway to configure this at all?  At the very least is there a 
>> Search/Replace that I'm missing that I could just change all the 
>> descriptions at once?  I know you can't mass change the transfer account 
>> but I wasn't sure about the description field.
> 
> No, there's no way to do this in GnuCash.  There is no "search and
> replace" functionality, either.  Your best bet is to pre-massage the
> OFX file prior to importing.
> 
>> I was also looking to see if there was any way to clear out the 
>> QuickFill entries, as the QFX import has populated some pretty cryptic 
>> entries that I'd like to be rid of.
> 
> the quickfill entries will reset next time you restart gnucash.
> 
>> Jason
> 
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> 
> -derek
>