These importers are intended merely as examples and aren't supported as
general importers.
The OFX importer, in particular, is based on a particular use case and is
not a general purpose thing that would work in every case.

I suggest you use one of the OFX libraries on github to build yourself an
importer that will support the tags your particular institution yields.
(Unfortunately, there's a lot of variation between institutions, even
within the format.)



On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:50 PM Frederick Noon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Advice requested...
>
> The off-the-shelf v2 *ingest/importers/ofx.py* uses the *DTASOF* value of
> the *LEDGERBAL* section as the file date.  However, I find that this date
> is consistently the date I downloaded the data from my bank, not the
> closing date of the period I asked for.  So if, in April, I download
> transactions for January into one file, then download transactions for
> February into another, I get a name collision when running *bean-file* as
> *ofx.py* says each file has a max_date in April.
>
> To change this behavior in my installation I've modified *ofx.py* to look
> for the *DTEND* value in the *BANKTRANLIST* section, which gives me the
> end of the period I queried my bank for.  This has worked out very well for
> me.
>
> So: is this a bug in *ofx.py,* or am I misapplying the importers
> feature?  Or is this a behavior that varies widely from bank to bank?
> Should I pack my changes into a pull request for others to use?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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