[GNC] Import transactions

[ddemott at juno.com]

Geert, Thanks for the quick response and steering me to the Android support channel. As for the export/import, I think my expectations were probably misguided. I had hoped the csv import would be the equivalent of a qif import but I now see they are totally different. I must explicitly identify column associations and manually specify the posting of each row. I can see that provides great flexibility for some needs but for what I'm trying to do probably not useable. You are correct that I can share gnucash files between apps but it's only transactions "on the go" that I'm trying to capture with Android. The app claims that to be its intended purpose, it just crashes when I try it. I haven't gotten far enough to know how well GnuCash imports qif but presume it works okay. Thanks for your guidance. You've certainly gotten me further down the road of understanding. Dale DeMott

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: "ddemott at juno.com" <ddemott at juno.com>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Import transactions
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 17:01:38 +0200

Hi,

Gnucash for Android is a separate project with its own support channels. I 
can't say much of it as I don't use it. The support channel for gnucash for 
android can be found here:
https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues

>From what I heard I thought you could simply share your data file between 
Gnucash for Android and Gnucash without having to import/export. I may be 
totally wrong though...

As for export/import in gnucash, I quickly checked and I agree the way to 
select subaccounts is pretty flakey. That should be improved.

What problems did you experience when trying to import a csv file generated 
with gnucash itself ?
A few possible issues that have been reported already are:
- Fails to import if csv data has single \\ characters (Fixed for 3.2)
- Price information is not imported correctly (and probably not exported 
either)

Geert



Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 16:35:08 CEST schreef ddemott at juno.com:
> I'm new to GnuCash and trying to learn and use some of its features. I
> downloaded version 3.1 and experiencing some very unexpected behavior. In
> particular, I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to export transactions from GnuCash
> for Android and import them into GnuCash. Here's what I experience: GnuCash
> for AndroidSolicits filename before selecting the export type (qif, xml).
> Regardless what I specify, ".zip" appends to the filename. Selecting 'qif'
> crashes the app.
> Selecting 'xml' works but I discovered that the resultant file is not
> actually "zipped". Exporting to 'xml' does not allow the same date
> selection and delete after exporting options as offered for 'qif' exports.
> GnuCashRenaming the 'xml' file exported from Android to '.gnucash' will
> open with my transactions. Unfortunately, I can neither import transactions
> from a 'gnucash' file nor can I export transactions to a 'qif' file. I can
> export to 'csv' but I must manually expand every account branch before I
> can successfully include all sub-accounts for export. GnuCash will not
> import transactions from the same 'csv' file it exported. I'm trying to
> create proper expectations. Can someone please tell me whether these
> characteristics are imagined or real, bugs or features? Dale DeMott
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