[GNC] Generic Import Matcher GUI

[Dale Alspach]

Curiously today I imported a QFX file generated by a department store.
Unlike the TIAA file which had every line marked "A", this one had a
variety of states. I manually fixed the transfer account on a few. Then I
noticed one marked "A" had the wrong transfer account. Double clicking
worked this time and I was able to change the transfer account.
It appears that there is something going on with the parsing of the files
and Quicken format.

I looked in syslog and there were issues with both imports that produced
messages. For the department store file there were complaints
about parsing  some date strings. For TIAA there several lines similar to
this
Jan  4 09:53:01 azul org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[883515]:
LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate
POSOTHER
(POSOTHER replaced by other names in other lines)
Whether this is significant I do not know.

I know very little about Quicken format and nothing about how gnucash
handles the import. So what is happening is a total mystery to me. I have
not filed a bug report.


Dale

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dale,
>
> I am running V4.13 on Linux Mint 21.1(Vera) ( built from tarball on my
> system and not Flatpak).
>  I have just downloaded an OFX file and imported it. Double clicking any
> where in the currently selected transaction is bringing up the dialogue for
> assigning  the transfer account.
>  Similarly the right click brings up the dialogue to select the transfer
> account for the current selection of transactions
> . I still have the problem that only my right CTRL key can be used for
> multiple selection ( that may possibly be a keyboard issue and not GnuCash)
> but otherwise it all looks to be working normally.
>
> I have just run a keyboard tester and it appears my CTRL problem is the
> keyboard, so GNuCash appears to be working fine on my system.
> It is possibly a problem with access to  your system resources from within
> the flatpak environment.
>
> Regards
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 14:47 -0600, Dale Alspach wrote:
>
> Upgrading to 4.13 changed the behavior. With "A" selected: Double click
> still does nothing. Right click raises a menu with first choice "Assign a
> transfer account to the selection" but selecting that does nothing. The
> second choice "Edit description,  notes or memo" does open an edit window.
>
> Dale
>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 1:54 PM David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dale,
>
> You may have to double click in the transfer account field. Try right
> clicking
> on the transaction and see if that works. That should also bring up the
> dialog
> for selecting the transfer account  I have noticed in a few recent versions
> (4.10 -4.12) that there have been some problems with selecting multiple
> transactions to assign a single account to using the control and shift keys
> which went away after I upgraded to a more recent version(currently 4.13).
> It
> wasn't consistentand in one case depended on which  CTRL key I used on my
> keyboard. I suspected these were likely due to changes in the underlying
> GTK
> library rather than code changes in GnuCash itself.. I've got to bring my
> accounts up to data in the next day or two so will be using the importer a
> bit.
> I'll report back if I have any problems.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 11:27 -0600, Dale Alspach wrote:
> > Flathub gnucash 4.11 on linux mint. QFX file (Quicken) import. File
> > downloaded  from TIAA.
> > The help for the import matcher claims that by double clicking on a
> > transaction that one should be able to check or change the transfer
> > account. This fails for a transaction matched as new. Double clicking
> does
> > nothing. Changing the type to U+C or C allows double clicking to open a
> > window but discards the transfer account information, shows one side of a
> > transaction, and does not show any means to add a transfer account.
> >
> > This seems to me to be a bug. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Dale
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