I am currently running release 3.8 in Linux Lite, which is Ubuntu 20.04 under a different label. I think that the CSV transaction import has not been changed, between 3.8 and 4.9. If that is not correct, then some of my issues may be bugs that have been fixed.
I have read the current help manual section on importing transactions in csv format <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help> which gave me a start, but there are some things that I cannot make work correctly. I have come to the conclusion that my brokerage house World Equity Group CSV exports probably need to be massaged, and possibly split up but there are a couple of issues that I need to understand in order to determine how to fix the import data and to assign the proper names to the various fields. One issue is that in one test many transactions were imported as single line unbalanced transactions with no transfer account, not even an assignment to an unbalance account. Why did GnuCash accept unbalanced transactions containing amounts? Applying Check and Repair to some of those transactions did not balance them to an unbalance account. Another issue is that I have not figured out which column name should be used for the number of shares in a purchase or sale transaction. Yet another issue would be whether I can import everything into the brokerage account or do I need to do something special to get stock transactions assigned to the proper security account when appropriate? A fourth issue would be whether I need to use the Multi-Split feature and, if so, how to format the CSV file to make it assign the correct split lines to the correct base transaction, and save it in CSV format if I built the spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc or equivalent -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
