OFX Note Propagation

[David T.]

Rufus,

As the originator of the thread, I think you and I are talking about different things. My original post had to do with the autofill feature that GnuCash uses, which copies the information regarding the OFX transaction from a downloaded transaction (where it belongs) to a manually-entered transaction (where it does not). 

I suspect you are describing the OFX note information that your bank provides in its output. You could check this by examining an OFX file that you download from your bank; if it has the notes there, then that is part of the OFX data from your bank. I don’t think there’s any way for GnuCash to avoid importing that data. 

You could use a text editor or script to remove these data elements from the OFX file before importing. However, that might strip out other functionality—e.g. transaction matching on FITID.

HTH,
David

> On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:31 AM, rlaggren <rlaggren at mail.com> wrote:
> 
> After searching archives I have found only this thread and it appears closely
> related to a problem I have. I hope it's OK to bump the thread and keep the
> topic consolidated.
> 
> I download OFX files from several banks in preference to jumping through
> hoops and "signing up" for (and sometimes paying extra) for their live
> accounting software updates. After importing I find that most/all of the
> transactions have their "Note" field filled w/useless generic info starting
> w/"OFX"; it even includes the word "generic". From the above discussion and
> examination of the OFX files it appears the gnucash is doing this.
> 
> How do I stop this auto-fill of imported OFX file transactions? For me the
> text contains zero useful info and causes useage problems.
> 
> The fill bothers me in a couple of ways: 1) By filling the double line
> register listing w/clutter it makes it a joke as far as easily viewing
> _relavant_ Info; 2) There seems to be info from the bank that appears in
> some transactions (eg. source info for debit card and credit card trans) and
> while apparently not over written, this info is pushed to the end of the
> field and is not visible in the registry listing.
> 
> Is there any config files to adjust? Is there any easily located block of
> code I could comment out, recompile and lose this Fill function of the
> Import system? Cleaning up trash from  4 or 5 files (various different
> accounts) of 10 - 100 items each month makes for serious "not-happy".
> 
> Thanks for all thoughts.
> 
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 
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