GnuCash Unable to Import Mutliple Currencies

[Ngewi Fet]

Such a script cannot be written in the first place because the QIF file
does not have the currency information at all. How will the entries be
separated?
Geert, you are right that it is up to GoA to export multiple QIF files per
currency. He has filed an issue for this in the bug tracker.

GoA started out exporting with the OFX format, but that turned out not to
support multiple splits and was also a hassle to import into GnuCash
desktop.
QIF was better in both regards, and therefore was implemented. In a sense,
the lesser of two evils. :)

Regards,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
> wrote:

>  On Wednesday 17 September 2014 10:28:01 Tom Balazs wrote:
>
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> > > You will need to get the accounts in different currencies exported
>
> > > into different QIF files. Unfortunately that is the only way. QIF
>
> > > does not have any way to specify a currency, so there's really
>
> > > nothing we can do.
>
> > Is there anyone who would write a script which would take the QIF file
>
> > I export out of GnuCash Android and split it into two QIF files
>
> > according to each account's currency?
>
> >
>
> I can't offer such a script unfortunately. I do advise you though to file
> a bug report against GnuCash on Android. If qif doesn't support multiple
> currencies, GoA shouldn't be generating such qif files. It should be up to
> GoA to generate separate qif files, one per currency.
>
>
>
> > I imagine that such a script would be useful to anyone who needs to
>
> > import a QIF with "multiple currencies". I write "multiple
>
> > currencies" because technically a QIF doesn't have currencies.
>
> > However there are work-arounds (e.g. name accounts "#Yen#_Checking",
>
> > "#Yen#_Saving", "#USD#_Checking", "#USD#_Saving", etc.). Then the
>
> > script to splits the QIF file according to the "#" tags I put in the
>
> > account names. The result being two or more QIFs, which can then be
>
> > imported separately into GnuCash Desktop.
>
> >
>
> For me this is backwards for the reason I mentioned before. If I
> understand it correctly there shouldn't be any qif files with multiple
> currencies. The fact that Gnucash on Android generates them is a bug.
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: I don't know zip about qif. My reaction is purely based on
> what I read in this thread. So if I'm really talking nonsense, you are free
> to tell me so :)
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Geert
>