Will-do. I found that my change matched the usage of at least 3 of the institutions I was using, but didn't know how representative my sample was.
On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 7:13:28 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5d9554cb-d2a7-4dbe-94d7-1e872173b85an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5d9554cb-d2a7-4dbe-94d7-1e872173b85an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/36f21b62-70c9-4c23-a9b3-1f3de2bb83e5n%40googlegroups.com.
