Using Split Transactions During OFX Download

[Michael Miller]

Bummer.

Ok.  Thanks!

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:02 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>wrote:

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> On May 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Michael Miller wrote:
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> > Is there a way to use Split Transactions while downloading the OFX file
> from
> > the bank?  Presently, I have to use just one Account (Category) to get
> the
> > download complete then go back and split the transactions.  I'd like to
> do
> > the split during the download.
> >
> > Possible?
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> No. OFX has no concept of split transactions, and the gnucash importer
> hasn't enhanced that aspect of imports yet. If you have a transaction in
> gnucash already that's split among multiple accounts, the transaction
> matcher will appropriately connect the transaction in the OFX stream with
> the one already in the register. But you can't add additional splits during
> the import process.
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> Dave
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> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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