Help with importer needed

[Scumbuster]

"Bayesian history"....oh my, I am definitely over my head....LOL

No idea what that means.

As for entering transactions as I make them, not practical.

I download all of my debit card, check and auto withdrawl
transactions.....would have to enter each one every day as they
happen...LOL...and that aint happening....

Is there a better format to download the info in perhaps?

I do not mind doing the splits manualy.  Would just prefer to not have to go
in and change every downloaded transaction that was incorrectly assigned at
the import screen....



-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:51 PM
To: Scumbuster
Cc: edodd at billiau.net; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Help with importer needed

"Scumbuster" <scumbuster at comcast.net> writes:

> Well, if it was learning from previous assignment,s why is it doing it 
> across the board to all transactions the way it , regardless of what 
> the transaction is?

Depends on the contents of your Bayesian history.  Perhaps there is a common
token that your bank puts in all its descriptions?

> As I said, I need to break out the tax from the item as well.....6 of 
> one,
> 1.2 dozen the other....either way I have to go in and manually do it 
> so I would rather do it right at the import versus going back thru my 
> entire register to find the accounts that need split.

OFX doesn't do split transactions.  Period.  If you want to import a split
transaction then don't use OFX.  On the other hand, I would never expect a
financial institution to know how you want to record the transaction.

> If there is a better way to do it I am all ears.

Don't import -- enter your transactions as you create them.

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