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

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 6, 2017, at 3:40 PM, John Vermeer <johnve at juno.com> wrote:
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> David, John, and All,
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> Thanks!
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> Yes, the string is appearing in the description field. I will attach images – to hopefully show you.
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> I will try to download the OFX from BECU – to see if the string is there.
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> Sound like this is “by design” . I think I will implement and update query to remove the redundant information or move it to the memo field. (I use MySQL as my data source).
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> John
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> From: John Ralls
> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:07 PM
> To: David Carlson
> Cc: John Vermeer; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: "Point of sale debit or credit (Note: Depends on signage of amount)" appended to transactions in 2.6.17
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> > On Jul 6, 2017, at 11:31 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > David C
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> > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:26 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > John,
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> > 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?
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> > I would prefer "OFX ext. info: |Trans type:Generic debit|Memo:" as before, unless an option is added to even suppress that text.
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> > David C
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> > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:42 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> > > On Jul 5, 2017, at 2:47 PM, John Vermeer <johnve at juno.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > 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.
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> > > This exact string is found in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/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.
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> > > This is happening in a home compiled Linux version as well as under Gnucash installed in Windows 10.
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> > > Is this a new feature? Or, possibly, a bug?
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> > 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.
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> David,
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> It's not always that particular string; it depends on what type the financial institution tags the transaction with. For example when I pulled in my credit card this morning the descriptions all began with "Generic debit;".
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> This new misbehavior happens only with AQBanking, which doesn't and hasn't ever populate the Notes field. The OFX/QFX file importer inserts the "OFX ext. info" string into the Notes field.

I found that there actually is a preference setting for this, at the bottom of the page in Preferences>Online Banking, called "Use Non-SWIFT transaction text". Uncheck it and the extra text no longer appears.

Regards,
John Ralls