How to reset OFX/QFX import account assignment?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> writes:

> I have a brokerage account which includes cash account in both CHF and USD.
> When I first imported a QFX file downloaded from the brokerage, I made the
> mistake of importing it into the corresponding CHF Assets account in GC
> (since this is my default currency in both GC and the brokerage account). 
> As it turns out, however, almost all of the cash transactions in the account
> are in USD.  GC insists on importing all of the transactions from each new
> QFX file from this brokerage into the GC CHF account, even though the
> transactions in question are designated as having CURRENCY=USD (see example
> transaction excerpted from QFX file below).  

A saw no "excerpted" data in your email.  Perhaps you failed to attach
it, or it got stripped out along the way?

> How can I reset the account assignment for QFX import, in order to import
> transactions into the GC USD account?

Alas, the only way to do it is to overwrite it.  GnuCash stores the OFX
Account info attached in the GNC Account Metadata.  It can only store
one OFX ID, so to reset an account you need to import an OFX file with a
"bogus" ID and attach it to the GNC Account you want to reset.  Then
when you re-import your real OFX it wont find the binding and you can
reassign it.

> Better still, is there any hope of getting GC to correctly recognize
> subaccounts (maybe from the FITID field) in cases like this?

No, the FITID is an opaque field (to us, the OFX client).  The only
requirement of the field is that it be guaranteed unique (per account)
by the issuing authority for duplicate detection.  But there is no
guarantee for the contents.

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-derek

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