[GNC] OFX setup

[peterb]

Hmmm, with respect, this doesn't seem like a helpful reply - I looked at
the documents you referenced, and the questions Fleur is asking are not, in
fact, answered in them.  It could be that you're misunderstanding her
questions, or it could be that both she and I are misreading the
documentation.  To take just one example, the question "Is BIC SWIFT the
routing number for my US account?" isn't answered - the "Setting up OFX
Connect" document is completely silent on that.  The glossary has some
things to say about BIC routing numbers, but even after reading it I'm
completely unable to tell you whether that's the same routing number I see
on my checks.  And of course the fact that the debugging options seems to
have produced no output is also concerning - if we on the mailing list are
telling people asking for help "Generate a debug log" but the documentation
about how to do that is incorrect, that's a failure on the part of the
documentation.

I do appreciate that you're trying to help, and clearly SOME people have
had success getting OFX set up correctly, while others have not. Maybe the
best way to cut this Gordian knot would be to create a documented example
of creating the accounts by hand that jralls referenced in an earlier
message, and get that put on the wiki.

Thoughts?  I don't know how to create those accounts by hand, since i've
never done it, but I'm willing to be a guinea pig to try to follow
instructions on doing it.

-Peter

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:26 AM Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IMHO most of your questions are answered in
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect and
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Glossary
>
> HTH
> Frank
>
> Am 06.07.20 um 13:33 schrieb Fleur Dragan:
> >
> > First I set:
> >
> > export GWEN_LOGLEVEL=debug
> > export AQBANKING_LOGLEVEL=debug
> > export AQOFX_LOG_COMM=1
> > export AQOFXCONNECT_LOGLEVEL=debug
> >
> >
> > Then I ran, just to be safe:
> >
> > rm -rf ~/.aqbanking/
> >
> >
> > Then I ran:
> >
> > /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug 2>&1 | tee
> gnc.out
> >
> >
> > Once GnuCash started up, I tried to set up a user, which was
> successful.  Then I tried to retrieve accounts, which was also successful,
> but no accounts were created in the aqbanking window.  I tried to create an
> account, but it's not clear what information each field wants, especially
> since it's designed to be country agnostic.  Is BIC SWIFT the routing
> number for my US account?  Is country "US" or "United States" or something
> else?  Bank Name?  The one in www.ofxhome.com?  The one on their
> website?  Can't get much more ambiguous than bank name.  The look up bank
> code doesn't appear to do anything, so I have no idea if the bank code is
> the OFX FI, the routing number, or something else.  There are enough
> ambiguous fields, trying various combinations is prohibitive.  If there is
> documentation, in English (google translate will not understand subtleties
> of BIC/IBAN/SWIFT/routing number), for setting up OFX accounts, I will
> happily try again.
> >
> > There were no errors in /tmp/ofx.log.
> >
> > There don't seem to be any errors in the output, and nothing was in the
> trace file, so I guess I read how to turn that on wrong.  I've attached the
> stdout/stderr output.  Will the trace be helpful?  If so, I'll go back and
> to that.  What else have I missed?
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > fleur
> > --
> > Fleur Dragan / fleur at obscure.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 5, 2020, at 1:14 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <
> frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Am 05.07.20 um 00:51 schrieb peterb:
> >>> Fleur Dragan said:
> >>>
> >>>> So when I try to set up OFX connectivity, the user is created
> >>>> successfully.  Then I try to retrieve accounts, which do show up in
> the log
> >>>> window, and the log window says I may now close, but when I do,
> nothing
> >>>> happens.  This was the same behavior I saw with aqbanking 6.1.4.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> This was the exact same behavior I saw in 3.10.  I haven't tried it
> with
> >>> 4.0 yet.  The overall user impression was "Your login has succeeded!
> >>> Nothing happens."
> >>>
> >>> -P
> >>
> >> just in case the one or other wants to dig deeper:
> >> * https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking#Debugging
> >> * https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
> >> Flatpak users only:
> >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Getting_Console_Output
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> Frank
> >>
> >
> >
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