"Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to transactions in 2.6.17

[David Carlson]

Sorry, I am confused about field names.  Is that new message in the
description field instead of the current data or is it actually in the
Notes field where the previous message was prepended to the FI note?

David C

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:26 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> John,
>
> Does that mean that when users download files from their financial
> institutions and import them offline they will always get that message in
> the description field?
>
> I would prefer "OFX ext. info: |Trans type:Generic debit|Memo:" as before,
> unless an option is added to even suppress that text.
>
> David C
>
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:42 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:47 PM, John Vermeer <johnve at juno.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Since upgrading to Gnucash 2.6.17 I am seeing the string "Point of sale
>> debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to the
>> description field of all my OFX transactions. I have aqbanking bringing
>> most transactions directly from my credit union.
>> >
>> > This exact string is found in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnu
>> cash/blob/master/src/import-export/ofx/gnc-ofx-import.c [line 107]. But
>> I am not certain that that is where it is coming from. I suppose that my
>> credit union could also be appending the string.
>> >
>> > This is happening in a home compiled Linux version as well as under
>> Gnucash installed in Windows 10.
>> >
>> > Is this a new feature? Or, possibly, a bug?
>>
>> It's a new feature [1] that was supposed to apply only to HBCI, so
>> there's an option to enable it on the HBCI import dialog but not the OFX
>> one where it's enabled by default.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/139
>>
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