CSV Import

[GT-I9070 H]

I made an import of a 304KB csv file exported by GnuCash and these are my
first remarks:

* Sometimes the importer/GnuCash either froze or was long parsing (eg. When
to change the header), in doubt I killed the process and started again. A
progress bar would be welcome!

* In the csv reconciled column I have the letters "n", "a" and "p" and only
"n" was understood, I had to ignore this column in order not to lose
transactions.

* There are doubts about whether to select the "account" column header for
csv's  "Account Name" or "Account Full Name".

* After import, some values had decimal changes and a new line with the
blank comment came up, possibly to balance the transaction.
I do not think this was generated by the importer.
When we register a multi-currency transaction with a single rate and with
splits, GnuCash record rates with small differences for each split and when
we export a csv these different rates are exported and reflect in the
values (not in the default currency) when imported.

Suggestion:
It would be nice if we could edit the csv on the importer to make minor
corrections!

>From my point of view, the importer sometimes showed to be cumbersome
(possibly parsing), but it works well!

This was my first test, I'll do others.

Regards
GTI


2017-04-15 5:03 GMT-04:00 Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>:

> On zaterdag 1 april 2017 17:45:12 CEST GT-I9070 H wrote:
> > Ok, Alright Geert!
> >
> > I think I can live another week without the new importer  : )
> > Please let us know when this is fixed.
> >
> > Thanks
> > GTI
> >
> An update - John was so kind to fix the dependency issues for the windows
> nightly build yesterday and the most recent nightly build installs and runs
> fine again:
> http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/master/gnucash-2.
> 6.99-2017-04-14-git-c7226dd+5-setup.exe
>
> Unfortunately in my first test of the new importer I have run into a
> windows-
> only bug: the column headers aren't clickable and hence there is no way
> (yet)
> to specify the column types. I'll need to get that fixed first.
>
> On the other hand the built-in preset to import data that was exported by
> gnucash does work fine. Which suggests the other parts of the importer are
> in
> pretty good shape.
>
> A little more patience will be needed... :)
>
> Geert
>