[GNC] Online Banking Upgrade hosed Name and Memo field

[David Carlson]

What do you mean by online banking.?  Are you actually using the OFX import?

If so, just do not use the option to update the transaction when matching.
Then Gnucash leaves the description unchanged.

David C

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 7:49 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 29, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Alan Marsh <alan at marsh.ac> wrote:
> >
> > NAME and MEMO were identical in old xml (either ofx or qfx)
> > <NAME>POS PURCH - KROGER FUEL CTR  554
> > <MEMO>POS PURCH - KROGER FUEL CTR  5542               IL DECATUR
> > 4615 E. US ROUTE 36US
> > After online banking upgrade it now gives me
> >
> > <NAME>POS PURCH
> > <MEMO>KROGER FUEL CTR  5542               IL DECATUR         4615 E. US
> > ROUTE 36US
> > Which means all transactions in gnucash say just POS PURCH for the
> > Description and you have to expand each one to see the actual memo entry
> > to know who was paid.
> > Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Does your bank offer QIF export? Maybe they didn't bork that. Otherwise
> you're stuck with pre-processing the file with the scripting language of
> your choice.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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