Ques: downloading financial transactions into GnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Tue, July 3, 2012 1:50 pm, Paul Conrady wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am hoping someone could give me a few pointers on downloading financial
> transactions into GnuCash. I want to download mutual fund transactions
> from
> Vanguard Group, Inc. GnuCash is able to download the transactions from the
> Vanguard server because the transactions show up in the GnuCash OFX.LOG
> file. The problem is the transactions do not show up in the account
> register. A small dialog pops up immediately after the download process
> ends, which says, "The Online Banking Import returned no transactions for
> the selected time period."  It seems that the program is not parsing the
> downloaded text. Anyone else have this problem?

Unfortunately AqB (or the GnuCash hooks thereto -- I'm not 100% sure
which) doesn't handle Investment Data.

If, instead, you download the OFX file manually and then call the OFX/QFX
importer on that file, that should work for you.

> Thank you very much,
>
> Paul

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-derek

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