Commerzbank

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 7, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Horea Christian <horea_christian at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, in addition to and completely independently of my present query
> regarding currency quotes, I would like to somehow integrate gnucash and
> my Commerzbank (Heidelberg, vormals Dresdner Bank; for all gnucash
> purposes probably irrelevant) account more automatically.
> 
> Currently I am trying to import my transaction list (csv file offered by
> the Commerzbank) into gnucash. The first issue with this is that the
> import wizard does not support dates separated by anything else than
> dashes (seriously?!?), while the Commerzbank formats dates with periods.
> I am able to work around this by editing my files (though I would very
> much welcome a more elegant solution). However, after I do that, the
> gnucash import wizard still fails after I set the separator etc. with a
> fairly nondescript error message stating "The date format could be
> wrong, or there are not enough columns set..." How do I debug this?
> 
> My second question would be if hbci would allow me to circumvent this
> manual import (or is that just for issuing transactions?)?

HBCI will download your transactions from your bank providing that your bank supports it. The folks who understand the details are on the German list, gnucash-de at gnucash.org.

Regards,
John Ralls