[GNC] Online Banking Upgrade hosed Name and Memo field

[David Carlson]

Before you go down that path see if any others on this maillist have had
the same problem with release 3.3.  I am still on 2.6.15 or 17, so I have
not seen the revised importers.

David C

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:31 PM Alan Marsh <alan at marsh.ac> wrote:

> 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 I'm very out of date on programming stuff and only dabbled with Python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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