Importing payroll information

[Derek Atkins]

David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> writes:

> I used to think that all 'automatic' methods of transaction generation
> intentionally left the transaction notes field blank because there was a
> plan in the future to fill that field with the contents of the current
> account register split memos, similar to the way Accounts Receivable
> transactions are displayed. 

Nope.  I know that QIF sets it if you have both P and M fields in a
transaction.  P -> Desc, M -> Notes.

> I know that field is not copied from the source transaction when a
> scheduled transaction is created by copying an existing transaction.  I
> also note that when the OFX importer imports transactions it tends to
> fill that field with import status notes rather than actual transaction
> text, at least when importing files from my banks.

This would be a bug.  There's no reason not to copy the notes field.

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-derek
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