[GNC] Online Banking Upgrade hosed Name and Memo field

[Alan Marsh]

The "new and improved" online banking allows me to export to .csv, .ofx,
.qfx, and .qbo
I am using the File > Import > Import OFX/QFX menu option.

Even in the CSV format, the Description and Memo fields show the same as
<NAME> and <MEMO> in both .ofx and .qfx
I'm thinking I'll have to pre-process the file as John mentions.

I'm very out of date on programming stuff and only dabbled with Python
once... stuck in a corporate Microsoft world.
Any suggestions on what to use and maybe a sample script from someone
else forced to do this sort of thing. Last time this happened, I changed
credit unions. Besides this one problem, I'm pretty happy at this one.
Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, at 11:41 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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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