OFX Note Propagation

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 9:57 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I was just looking at year end tax information in my GnuCash data file, and I noticed that a large number of transactions had OFX notes in them, despite the fact that I am sure I entered these transactions manually. I suspect that the autofill feature is propagating these OFX notes for me. I think this is probably not a good idea, for a number of reasons:
> 1) the OFX note is only visible in Double-Line view mode, which is not the default. Adding especially-well hidden data to a transaction is IMHO not good.
> 2) while the OFX notes I examined were rather generic (e.g., "OFX ext. info: |Trans type:Deposit”) I understand that these notes often include a unique FITID, and copying one from one transaction to another would not be right.
> 
> Should I file a bug for this?

Maybe. 

There's nothing OFX-y about the Notes field, and it's not GnuCash's job to figure out where entries in fields came from. If you're creating manual transactions that get duplicated from OFX-imported ones by autocomplete then it's your job to look at the whole thing and make sure that it has exactly what you want, including the Notes field. That doesn't deserve a bug report.

OTOH, FITID is stored in the transaction's "online-id" KVP slot which is invisible to the user unless you look in the data file. If *that's* getting duplicated by autocomplete then you should file a bug about it.

Regards,
John Ralls