[GNC] More QFX import problems

[David Carlson]

Nike,

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Your problem is an artifact f there being more than one currency in your
data.  I am not a expert with that.  Others need to be invited to help.

David C

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 4:52 PM, V. Vatsal <vatsal at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> OFX/QFX works perfectly fine on all other bank & credit card accounts.
> It's just this one that is a problem.
>
> I have attached a screen shot so you can see what the register looks like.
>
> One other weird thing -- the currency for these problem imports seems to
> be USD. I don't know why this is; my default (and all my accounts) are CAD.
> (I am in Canada.) The reason I know this is that if there's an imbalanced
> transaction, it appears in an account called Imbalance-USD, whereas all
> other imbalanced transactions are in Imbalance-CAD.
>
> Just to be clear, the first transaction in the shown grab from the credit
> card account is a supposed to be a charge of $16.70. The second is a charge
> of $2 for books; it shows up correctly in the Expenses:Books account but
> shows up with a value of 0 (which cannot be edited) in the credit card
> account.
>
> It is very weird.
>
>
> Nike
>
>
>
> David Carlson wrote on 2018-07-03 2:39 PM:
>
>> Nike,
>>
>> Have you gotten OFX or QFX imports from other financial institutions to
>> work?
>>
>> I have never heard of any transactions, imported or otherwise, having
>> only one side, unless that side is equal to zero.
>>
>> Did you try changing the register view to double-line in transaction
>> journal?
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Nike V. via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi again,
>>
>>     I'm not sure if this kind of issue is on the radar of the
>>     developers, but here's some more information, in case somebody
>>     decides to chase the issue down.
>>
>>     My bank offers to export the data to CSV, QFX, or QBO formats, based
>>     on user set filters such as category, amount, date. For the QFX
>>     option, the data that are written to the file seem to depend on the
>>     filters chosen. GnuCash can't handle any version of the file that I
>>     have been able to produce -- either I get the zero/uneditable
>>     balance issue that I mentioned in the first email, or the import
>>     window is empty (as happened in the Chase downloads previously
>>     discussed on this list). I assume the problem comes from the precise
>>     tags that are written to the file, but I don't really know.
>>
>>     At present, I am working around this bug by exporting to CSV, which
>>     is a bit or a pain.
>>
>>     It would be nice to get GnuCash to deal gracefully with weird QFX
>>     downloads, if possible. I'm happy to help with debugging, if
>>     somebody wants to work on it.
>>
>>     Nike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Nike V. wrote on 2018-07-02 10:04 AM:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I have encountered a strange problem with QFX import from my
>>         credit card, issued by Home Trust. It's similar, but not exactly
>>         the same, as the ones discussed in the archive with Chase.
>>
>>         GnuCash apparently imports the QFX correctly, but transactions
>>         show up in the credit card account with a balance of zero.
>>         Jumping to the corresponding transaction in the source account
>>         shows the correct balance, however.
>>
>>         But it's not possible as far as I can tell to get the card
>>         account to show any balance at all. Manually editing the
>>         transaction does nothing. You can enter $100, press return, and
>>         the account still shows zero.
>>
>>         Opening the qfx file in a text editor shows one long blob of
>>         text and tags. I assume there must be something strange about
>>         the qfx file, but I have no idea what it is, or how to fix it.
>>
>>         Any ideas would be welcome!
>>
>>         Nike
>>
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