[GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

[Gyle McCollam]

Eric,
I know you probably tried this , but when you are importing Are you checking the "c" box and not the "u+c" box.  The "c" only clears, whereas the "u+c" UPDATES and clears.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2022 8:09 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

There is an issue which has been bugging me for some time with regard to
OFX/QFX imports: At least from my credit cards/financial institution,
when data is imported it overwrites the existing data in both the
"Description" and the "Notes" field...and, nine times out of ten, the
QFX "Notes" field is essentially a rehash of the "Description" field.

I like to leave transaction identification information in the "Notes"
field so that months later (Tax time!) I can recall the exact purpose of
a purchase without having to do a search through my email logs or PayPal
transactions in order to identify what that eBay purchase was actually
for. But at present any information I put there gets overwritten unless
I remember to manually re-enter it after the transaction clears when I
do an import from my financial institution.

I'd like to have a switch somewhere in "Settings" where you could
customize the QFX (and possibly QIF, although I don't use that much)
import so that if the Notes field is non-blank it does not get
overwritten by the imported data. Perhaps there already is such a switch
and I've just missed it; if so could someone enlighten me? Otherwise I'd
like to make this a formal feature request; how do I go about doing that?

--------Eric H. Bowen


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