[GNC] Import bug? no account matching options

[David Reiser]

> On Sep 26, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm trying to import transactions I've downloaded from Chase in a QIF
>>>> file but when I'm importing Gnucash doesn't give me any options to
>>>> match them to an account (zero accounts in the list) and the button to
>>>> change the matched account is grayed out.  This is happening with 2
>>>> separate Chase accounts and I am able to import transactions from
>>>> another bank just fine.  What could be causing this?
>>> 
>>> Lack of L lines in the transactions?
>> 
>> 
>> I just figured it out.  Chase uses a blank line instead of a line
>> containing only the "^" character to separate transactions.  I'm using
>> this to strip the top blank line:
>> 
>> sed -i '/./,$!d' file.qif
>> 
>> and then this to replace all blank lines with the "^" character:
>> 
>> sed -i 's/^[[:blank:]]*$/^/' file.qif
>> 
>> That seems to work.  Surely the Chase files are out of spec but is
>> this something Gnucash could work around?  If so I'll file a bug.
> 
> 
> Here's what the problem/bug looks like:
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/vPZOdD2
> 
> The import dialog skips the "Set a date format for this QIF file" and
> the "Set the default QIF account name" sections.
> 

Another workaround would be to download QFX files instead. That has the added advantage that if you do it more than once per billing period, the presence of the unique transaction ID makes it trivially easy for the import matcher to throw out duplicates without even having to ask you about them.

Dave
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Dave Reiser
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