Help with importer needed

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 6 11:30:24 EST 2013


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

> "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.

Why not?  How many transactions per day are you talking about?  5?  10?
So you spend 2-5 minutes every evening entering in the receipts from the
day.

> 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....

Well, you don't have to do it every day, you could do it ever few days.
For the auto-withdrawal just set up SXes.

Think about it this way: if you only enter transactions that your bank
tells you then you'll never find a bank error!  And you'll never know
about e.g. a missing check or some other transaction that failed to
execute.  It's MUCH better for you to enter in your transactions and
then verify them against the bank!

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

None that will give you splits.

> 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....

Then train the importer properly.  Or you can manually remove the
Bayesian history.  Alas, there is no way to do this in the UI, you need
to delete it from the data file manually (after making a backup, of
course).

-derek

> -----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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> -derek

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