using Online Banking Setup

[brad]

I've never had any success w/ it, for OFX.  It looks like the Europeans
are ahead of us here in the US, w/ HBCI.  I download the OFX and import
it.  That's flaky too.

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 18:22 -0600, Mike Alexander wrote:
> It does work, but it's hard to set up since banks don't generally 
> publish the information necessary to configure it.  They have special 
> deals with companies like Intuit to give them the info, but products 
> like GnuCash don't benefit from this.
> 
>            Mike
> 
> --On December 4, 2010 6:10:26 PM -0600 M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I personally have never been able to get it to work.  I just dl the
> > ofx from my banks and import them.
> >
> > "Michael Hughes" <itismike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi GnuCash users. How popular is the Online Banking feature which
> >> suggests that it can automatically pull data from onine banking
> >> websites? Are any users familiar with setting it up?
> >> The Help section is woefully unfinished
> >> (http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.2/C/gnucash-help/trans-online.html)
> >>
> >> The only other source I found is the Wiki, which is also a bit 'rough
> >> around the edges':
> >> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash
> >> _2#AqBanking) Also, none of the image links are working. They appear
> >> to be sitting here waiting for an admin to link them?
> >> (http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/15079)
> >>
> >> As a new user of GnuCash, I'm just curious if this is a commonly-used
> >> feature that is reliable for most, or if it is not quite ready for
> >> "prime-time?"
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike
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