On Jan 4, 2008 5:08 AM, William D. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > This seems to only affect importing commodities and only if you have > records in the "map from QIF stock name to GNC commodity" section of the > qif-accounts-map file. If it's empty, no problem. > > When you do have data in the commodity section of qif-accounts-map, the > importer GUI no longer asks you to confirm the name, type, and symbol > for commodities and no commodities/securities are created in GnuCash. > This leaves the corresponding accounts in GC a bit incomplete. There > are no "units" for the account so the balance is 0 until you create a > security for it. > I've been seeing this problem with my import attempts too. I've attached a simple QIF file that demonstrates this. Delete or > rename your .gnucash/qif-accounts-map file and start GnuCash with an > empty file. Import the QIF file. Optionally change from NYSE to NASDAQ > (where INTC is traded). Apply the import. The importer will dutifully > record INTC in qif-accounts-map. The security editor will show Intel as > a stock. The stock account has a balance of 1 share on INTC. Life is > good. > > Now you have a qif-accounts-map. Exit and do the import again (into a > new empty file). This time you will not be asked about securities and > none will be created. The stock account will have a zero balance (until > you create a security for it). > > I think on my real data the importer was ok if everything was set to > NYSE (that's why in the example I included the step to change to NASDAQ) > but that doesn't seem to be true for this test file. I'm a little > confused by that. > > On a related note, if you select commodity type FUND the account type > gets set to Stock but probably should be Mutual Fund. > > Unless somebody tells me not to, :-), I'll try to put together a bug > report and file it this weekend. > Sounds good to me, Charles > - Bill > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
