[GNC] CSV Price Import: Saving Colum Assignments

Thomas tduellmann+gnucashuser at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 05:31:45 EST 2022


I just created a bug report in Bugzilla for the said issue:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798437

On 1/27/22 09:49, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op woensdag 26 januari 2022 22:02:00 CET schreef David Carlson:
>> Back in prehistoric times we called that amnesia.  Today it might be called
>> Alzheimer’s or software bug.
>>
> 
> LOL
> 
> I'd bet on a software bug in this case.
> 
> I vaguely remember having fixed a similar issue in the CSV transaction importer a while back.
> The Price importer has duplicated a lot of the transaction importer early on, so that issue
> may have been copied back then and not fixed since. Please do file this as a bug report.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:51 PM Thomas <tduellmann+gnucashuser at gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> No, the CSV transaction importer seems to load all column assignments.
>>>
>>> On 1/25/22 23:32, David Carlson wrote:
>>>> Is the CSV transaction importer equally forgetful in that release?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 4:18 PM Stephen M. Butler <
>>>>
>>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I used to use the csv file import in version 3.8.  That remembered the
>>>>> column assignments, date format, and the main account (a liability
>>>>> account).
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like this is a bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Steve
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/25/22 13:40, Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a fixed format of CSV-files to import prices for securities and
>>>>>> I saved the respective preset in the CSV import wizard.
>>>>>> Unfortunately, only the assignment for the date is "remembered", while
>>>>>> the other column assignments (e.g., namespace, symbol, value) are
>>>>>> always set to none when I load the said preset.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this normal behavior and/or is there a way to also save the other
>>>>>> assignments?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> GnuCash
>>>>>> Version: 4.9
>>>>>> Version-ID: 4.9+(2021-12-18)
>>>>>> on ArchLinux
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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