[GNC] unable to import simple investment transaction from qif

[David Carlson]

If you are using a recent release of GnuCash, ie 4.something, the csv
transaction import feature has been greatly improved and includes the
ability to save and re-use settings .

It definitely works to import investment transactions previously exported
from GnuCash,  so it should work with generic files as well, possibly with
some massage.

I don't know if the qif import process can handle investments even though
Quicken can export them in that format it requires split transactions which
qif importer seems to choke on.



On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 7:25 PM ar <ar123456 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to import avery simple transaction from qif: just 2 buy
> transaction for the same account, containing  mutual fund MMMM
>
> The 'Assets:Investments:XXXXX' is gnu cash account tracking shares of MMMM,
> 'Asserts:Investments:YYYY' is a gnucash cash account.
>
> If I do not provide security symbol as below, the import fails when it
> requires to enter the security.
>
> !Account
> NAssets:Investments:XXXXX
> TInvst
> ^
> !Type:Invst
> D07/16'2022
> NBuy
> LAssets:Investments:YYYYY
> Q34.107
> T-77.58
> ^
> D07/15'2022
> NBuy
> LAssets:Investments:YYYYY
> Q7.638
> T-37.7
> ^
>
> I provide security as YMMMM, the import creates account
> Assets:Investments:XXXXX:MMMM that conflicts with
> 'Assets:Investments:XXXXX'
>
> 1. Does this feature works? If Yes are there usage examples.
> 2. I do not insist on using qif format, is it possible to use .csv for
> import, are there examples?
> 3. It seems that csv import requires a lot of manual selections to be made
> for every imported file, am I getting it right?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Aleksey
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