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

[Dustin Henning]

It used to work the way you want a long time ago, but it was so long ago 
that it might require a feature request now.  I have a bug open, though, 
and they have provided a workaround of sorts in the latest versions.  
There is now an "Append" checkbox in the transaction matcher, which will 
keep your notes even though it adds the other extraneous data that used 
to be dropped with U+C.  Unfortunately, the "Append" option uses a 
"pipe" separator even fields are blank (I always left the description 
blank so it would show the statement info and typed what I wanted in 
notes), so you get the "pipe" ahead of your description in addition to a 
"pipe" and extraneous data that isn't even technically in the OFX/QFX 
file after your description.

If you want to review the bug report, it's here: 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798296

On 4/29/22 8:09 PM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user wrote:
> 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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