[GNC] Transaction Imports

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Not going to go into great detail here, but you definitely DON'T want to have gnucash calculate shares. Have it calculate price. 

On Apr 11, 2022, 11:21, at 11:21, Stu Perlman <sgperlman at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I am looking for some guidance on how to import a few hundred
>transactions
>from my 401(k) account.
>Unfortunately, the plan administrator does not offer a good option for
>exporting the transaction data but I am able to get what I need with
>some
>basic web scraping.
>
>I have been experimenting with creating a multi-split CSV import from
>the
>data that I have captured.
>What I wanted to do was a file layout such as:
>
>*Date,Description,Account,Deposit,SharesAsMemo,Price*
>01/04/2021,Contribution,Cash,-299.26
>,,Vanguard Institutional Index Institutional
>Fund,299.26,0.916289038,326.6
>01/19/2021,Contribution,Cash,-299.26
>,,Vanguard Institutional Index Institutional
>Fund,299.26,0.892008703,335.49
>
>
>My wishful thinking was that I could put the number of shares into the
>memo
>column for reference (but that the system would auto-calculate that
>number
>using the provided Price and transaction amount ("Deposit")).
>I hit a blocker on the second to last step of the import wizard with
>the
>message: "*The account 'Vanguard Institutional Index Fund' has a
>different
>commodity to the one required, 'US Dollar'. Please choose a different
>account.*"
>
>So I'm wondering if there are other ways I can go about what I'm trying
>to
>accomplish?  I started with the CSV importer because I figured it would
>be
>the easiest record layout to create but I'm not against using a
>different
>format if what I want to accomplish can be done.
>
>I have a backup plan which is that I will NOT do the multi-split import
>and
>will just select the Cash account for all rows in the Import Preview
>screen. I could pack the memo field with the ticker symbol, price,
>quantity, and total debit and let it all dump into the Imbalance-USD
>account. I would then have to either manually fix them one by one or
>possibly script it out.  I have done this with success in the past but
>would rather just get it right at the data import step if that's in any
>way possible.
>
>My thanks in advance for any advice offered.
>
>- Stu
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