David Cousens, OFX files must have a <FI> <ORG> tag and <FID> tag identifying the financial institution as well as additional tags identifying the user and account id's so that the first time an account ID appears GnuCash requires the user to explicitly assign some account to that ID. The second time the same info appears the software will assign the transactions to the [hopefully] correct bank account. GnuCash does not ever assign OFX transactions to whatever account is handy.
The Imbalance account does appear when GnuCash does not recognize the <NAME> assigned to a transaction from previous imports. The dates, however, must appear in a certain format, and if incorrect, will usually cause an import to fail except possibly the first or second week of the year. That is all spelled out [except the Imbalance part] in the OFX specification used by all institutions that know how to apply it. David Carlson On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:23 PM David Cousens <[email protected]> wrote: > Anatoly, > > When you import the data is the transaction matching window coming up where > you can review the transfer accounts and the import status. If the matcher > cannot assign an account using its algorithm it will assign the second > split > of the transaction to an account called Imbalance. This account should > normally have a zero balance and any non-zero balance may indicate > transactions which haven't had an appropriate account assigned to them. > These will normally show up with a yellow background in the matcher window > indicating they need to have an account for the second split of the > transacton assigned to them. > > They should still show up in the register for the account you are > importing > to. If the OFX file does not specify the account being imported to in its > structure, it is normally the account whose register was open when you > initiated the import. It may also be possible the importer may have > imported > the transactions to the wrong account. I am not sure but it appears to > construct an association between the OFX file account specified and a > specific internal GnuCash account. I don't know how that is done for OFX > files though. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
