[GNC] Importing Multiple Accounts in a single OFX/QFX file

[David Carlson]

While the files that I import from my bank have content that I want to
retain in both sides of the duplicated transactions other use cases
probably differ.  I expect that this solution would work for some users and
I would prefer to keep the multiple source accounts separated during the
import process.  That is the way it used to work in the 2.6.x series, and
it would be easier to find and edit existing transactions if the other
issue of touching an incoming transaction in the register view causing
major havoc (https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721139) was solved to
work more safely like register edits do in the reconciliation assistant.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:57 PM Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Re https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105334#c13
>
>                import multiple account OFX files with transfers between the
> accounts, duplicate transactions are generated
>
>
>
> The problem is that when you import OFX transactions for 2 bank accounts
> from the same file, if there is a transfer
>
> between the 2 bank accounts, the 'Generic transaction matcher' window does
> not detect that the transaction in the
>
> transactions for the 2nd bank account is a duplicate and defaults to
> wanting
> to add it (a duplicate transaction) when
>
> it should default to matching it against the first transaction. This is
> because the first transaction has not yet been
>
> stored in the GnuCash datafile.
>
>
>
> A suggestion solution to this problem is to match and store each account's
> transactions 1 at a time, rather than
>
> putting all transactions in the ofx file in the matcher window at the same
> time.
>
>
>
> I'm wondering if this would be unacceptable to some people?
>
>
>
> By the way, I didn't realise you could select multiple .ofx files at once
> in
> the OFX import. Some people may find that useful.
>
> It seems they have to be in the same directory.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Good
>
>
>
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David Carlson