trouble with date when importing a just exported csv file.

[Larry Evans]

On 01/30/2015 12:26 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Larry Evans <cppljevans at suddenlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/29/2015 04:12 PM, Wm wrote:
>>> Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:34:44
>>> <CA+E35_7AN=0Zc11Y8dWvbeaXsjkRZSwba4g3Efa+1purnO6y8w at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Edward Doolittle <edward.doolittle at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Probably the fastest way to get something working would be to write a
>>>> program to translate from the CSV format that your brokerage provides
>>>> into
>>>> QIF or something else for easier importing into GnuCash.
>>>
>>> That is available for free, see my
>>> ===
>>> Subject: csv to qif / ofx
>>> Date:    08 January 2015 21:27:00
>>> ===
>>> and similar
>>>
>>> is no one (not you, E) able to solve a problem using the tools available
>>> these days?
>>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, Wm.
>> Here's what I tried:
>>
>> * Went to the webpage:
>>   http://csvconverter.gginternational.net/
>> * uploaded file:
>>     SHA1_transactions.csv
>>   which contained only 1 line:
>> 01-06-2015,buy more,Checking Account,1.5,100.0
>>   where fields were:
>> Date,Description,Transfer,Shares,Price
>> * Then tried the mapping step on the web page, but
>>   got stuck at the place shown in the attached .png.
>>   As you can see, there's no obvious place to put
>>   the Price field :(
>>
> 
> I haven't worked with this on this level, but I seem to recall some
> discussion saying the security price gets derived from the sum of the buy
> (or sell) transaction splits. In other words, you cannot just set the price
> of a security for a transaction; 

I also gave the number of Shares bought.  Please review the lines:

>>     SHA1_transactions.csv
>>   which contained only 1 line:
>> 01-06-2015,buy more,Checking Account,1.5,100.0
>>   where fields were:
>> Date,Description,Transfer,Shares,Price

In my previous post.  There, 1.5 Shares were bought at a price of 100.0
per share.  That's all that's required in the register, which calculates
the value of the Buy (if Shares is positive) or the value of the Sell
(if Shares is negative).  The import interface should behave similarly.

> it is derived from the results of the
> splits in a fully-formed transaction.
> 
> If my memory is wrong, my apologies.

No problem.

-Larry