gnucash: bank account numbers not visible in Gnucash?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Mon, December 13, 2010 5:43 pm, Wim Arnoldbik wrote:
> Dear Derek and Anthony,
>
> Thanks a lot for your replies. I am now almost certain that I did not
> do anything wrong in the CSV to OFX conversion and during the OFX
> Import.
> But, both of you mention something which is quite different than I
> observe:
>
> Derek, you state that the account numbers are stored in the datafile,
> but they are not in mine (I saved an uncompressed datafile, so I could
> read it). My account number is stored in the datafile, but not the
> others (which were between <BANKACCTTO> and </BANKACCTTO> in the OFX).
> Are your really sure they should be there? And what is the name of the
> field?

Ah, no the BANKACCTTO data is *not* stored anywhere.

> Anthony, I would be a little more satisfied if I could manage to get
> it the way you have it. I suppose the account numbers  are already in
> the MEMO field in your OFX files. Could you check that for me? If they
> are in another field that would be interesting. Maybe I should write
> my own csv to ofx, which I would not like to do....
>
> Cheers, Wim

-derek

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mine are in the account Description field. That's visible by default in
>> the
>> main Accounts listing, although you can always add the Notes field using
>> the
>> selector on the right side of the title bar for the accounts listing.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:29:51 -0500, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, December 9, 2010 10:47 am, Wim Arnoldbik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am importing OFX files into Gnucash.
>>>> Is there a way to make the bank account numbers (where my money comes
>>>> from or goes to) visible in gnucash?
>>>> In the ofx files they are shown between <BANKACCTTO> and
>>>> </BANKACCTTO>, so that seems to be allright
>>>
>>> Sorry, no.  While that data is stored in your datafile in order to map
>>> the
>>> accounts properly, it is not visible in the UI, and there is no way in
>>> the
>>> current UI to cause it to be displayed.  Sorry.
>>>
>>> You could manually put the number into the account notes field?
>>>
>>>> Regards, Wim
>>>
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>>> -derek
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