[GNC] Transaction Import

[Stu Perlman]

Thank You, David.

I'll have to look into what Citi allows (or not).  I don't recall seeing
categories in their OFX feed but then again, I was not looking for them!

- Stu


On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Stu,
>
> You can disable the Bayesian matching  with Edit->Preferences->Online
> Banking and uncheck the use bayesian matching chceckbox. I doubt if this
> removes existing Bayesian data from your data file but it shouldn't then
> be
> used in processing further imports.  You can manually delete it with th
> Tools->Import Match Editor if you wish. I don't know whether the token
> data
> from imports is still accumulated with that option unchecked. I suspect
> not,
> but haven't actually checked the code out
>
> The Import Match window does allow you to review each transaction before
> importing. While it is displayed, the transactions marked for importing are
> also provisionally displayed in the appropriate account register which can
> be accessed normally to examine the data in the format usually encountered
> (wouldn't edit them in the register though as any changes will be
> overwritten when you complete the import the data). It would be nicer if
> these were flagged in some way as provisional to distinguish them clearly
> from transactions already fully imported to GnuCash but it usually obvious
> from the dates.
>
> In the Import Matcher editor if you look at the non-Bayesian data that
> should give you account name mappings used in from source transaction data
> and the GnuCash internal account they are mapped on to. There is no edit
> capability there though. I think these are set initially when a new
> external account is encountered in import data with no existing mapping
> onto
> the GnuCash internal accounts and a dialog to assign an account is brought
> up.
>
> The only way AFAIK to force a particular account to be assigned as the
> transfer account is to specify the Account name in the import data
> explicitly and then the above mentioned mapping will take place. My bank
> attaches expense categories to my downloaded OFX files which I can setup in
> their web interface and they assign particular transactions to them on the
> basis of  my initial assignments. GnuCash's Bayesian matcher recognizes
> those categories and match them onto specific intenal accounts fairly well.
> unfortunately not all banks either do this or do it well.
>
> David Cousens
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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