Hi, on Saturday 21 May 2011 17:41:10 aga wrote:
> Hi Thomas > > You may have missed this point in this busy thread, bu I've been > helping Timothy with some import difficulties, and one of these > relates to importing an investment transaction requiring a transfer > to/from a checking account. I saw that and say thanks because I currently don't have too much time for support. > In his QIF file, Timothy has this type of line 'L[Bank Accounts:chq]', > having setup 'Bank Accounts as an asset type account, and chq as a > checking sub-account. He found though, that those transactions, while > importing the investment side, did not do a transfer, but were flagged, > I think, as needing a category. My understanding is that this is a > valid construction and should do what Timothy was expecting. > > After some experimentation, I found that provided his accounts were > already set up as above, the QIF file entry needed to be just '[chq], > and that would correctly transfer the proceeds to/from the correct > account. Incidentally, QIF import also auto-created a top-level 'chq' > account, which remained empty. This has at least, got him a way to > proceed. Subsequent imports appeared to ignore the new auto account, > somehow, and go into the correct sub-account. > > Should KMM handle 'L[Bank Accounts:chq]' like this, or is this a bug, > do you think? There is a subsidiary question about into which 'chq' > account the transfer would be made, if there were a top-level or > su-account of that name. KMM should support it (well, in fact it's the old QIF importer that does not somehow) and it should use it and not a top-level even if it exists. At least it seems that this part is working. -- Regards Thomas Baumgart GPG-FP: E55E D592 F45F 116B 8429 4F99 9C59 DB40 B75D D3BA ------------------------------------------------------------- As soon as there is an optimist who discovers a light that does not exist there is a pessimist who blows it out. (Giovanni Guareschi) -------------------------------------------------------------
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