[GNC] Gnucash 5 - import transactions

[Christian Lynbech]

I have now done a few more experiments and is not any less confused.

So to iterate, using 4.14, automatching works, using 5.0 it does not
work.

I tried turning on logging as John suggested. When I import to 5.0, I
get nothing logged during the operation. However, when trying to do the
import with 4.14, I am getting a number of warnings like this:

    * 20:07:17  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_split_props] User warning: Column 'Konto' could not be understood.

The word "Konto" is danish for "Account". Even so, automatching did
work. I am attaching the log files from the two attempts below.

I then thought, perhaps this is a language thing (I am using danish both
on my computer and in the books), so I c'tried changing the language to
english but it did change the results, no automatching on verson 5.
Also, the warnings I see in version 4, now was in english (e.g
"Account").

I have also tried generating a completely new book, as simple as can be,
but the behaviour is exactly the same, so it is not something something
that has piled up in my actual book.

Since this does not appear to be a universal issue, it is possible that
it is somehow language related.

Attached below are the two aforementioned log files, the one named with
"4" is from the 4.14 run (which works) and the one with a "5" is from the
5.0 version (that is not working).

I can provide my test book and sample CSV files as well, if anybody
would like to see them.

Thanks for taking an interest in my issue.

                               /Christian


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On Mon, Apr 24 2023, john wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2023, at 1:31 AM, Christian Lynbech <christian at defun.dk> wrote:
> 
> After upgrading to Gnucash 5 (Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)),
> it seems that I am no longer getting automatching to accounts when
> importing transactions from a CSV file.
> 
> I was not too concerned when I tried to do the first import and no
> matching appeared but now when I tried to do a second import, again no
> matching is done.
> 
> Are there any changes to how this works? Anybody else seeing problems
> with transaction import?
> 
> Is there a way I can see what matching data has been recorded?

There aren't changes to the matcher but Geert went through the CSV
importer bugs in January and fixed a bunch of them.

Tools>import Map Editor that Adrien suggested in his reply to your
Tools> original post will show you the recorded tokens and what
Tools> accounts they indicate.

You can get more logging info by running GnuCash from Terminal with
--log gnc.import=debug. The output is written to the trace file, which
you can change by adding --logto=stderr to send it to the console or
--logto=/some/path to send it to a more convenient file.

Regards,
John Ralls