Thank You, David. I'll have to look into what Citi allows (or not). I don't recall seeing categories in their OFX feed but then again, I was not looking for them!
- Stu On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Cousens <[email protected]> wrote: > Stu, > > You can disable the Bayesian matching with Edit->Preferences->Online > Banking and uncheck the use bayesian matching chceckbox. I doubt if this > removes existing Bayesian data from your data file but it shouldn't then > be > used in processing further imports. You can manually delete it with th > Tools->Import Match Editor if you wish. I don't know whether the token > data > from imports is still accumulated with that option unchecked. I suspect > not, > but haven't actually checked the code out > > The Import Match window does allow you to review each transaction before > importing. While it is displayed, the transactions marked for importing are > also provisionally displayed in the appropriate account register which can > be accessed normally to examine the data in the format usually encountered > (wouldn't edit them in the register though as any changes will be > overwritten when you complete the import the data). It would be nicer if > these were flagged in some way as provisional to distinguish them clearly > from transactions already fully imported to GnuCash but it usually obvious > from the dates. > > In the Import Matcher editor if you look at the non-Bayesian data that > should give you account name mappings used in from source transaction data > and the GnuCash internal account they are mapped on to. There is no edit > capability there though. I think these are set initially when a new > external account is encountered in import data with no existing mapping > onto > the GnuCash internal accounts and a dialog to assign an account is brought > up. > > The only way AFAIK to force a particular account to be assigned as the > transfer account is to specify the Account name in the import data > explicitly and then the above mentioned mapping will take place. My bank > attaches expense categories to my downloaded OFX files which I can setup in > their web interface and they assign particular transactions to them on the > basis of my initial assignments. GnuCash's Bayesian matcher recognizes > those categories and match them onto specific intenal accounts fairly well. > unfortunately not all banks either do this or do it well. > > David Cousens > > 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.
