On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > HSBC (UK) have a really badly designed website which doesn't work with > Safari or any other webkit-powered browser. I have to login using > Firefox and download my statements in CSV format to my desktop. The > statements aren't much better either! > > The problem is that the date for each transaction is in this format: > 2009-02-12 [Year-Month-Day] > > This causes an error to be displayed when trying to import this data > into Moneywell: "2009-02-12 = (cannot convert date using selected > format)" > > There doesn't appear to be an option from the drop-down menu in > Moneywell for for this type of date format. My work around is to open > the statements in OpenOffice which seems to automatically convert the > date format. Then re-save the CSV files to my desktop and try > importing them again. This time round they import perfectly without > any error. > > So is there a way to add this date format to Moneywell or consider > this as a feature request? That way it would be possible to import > HSBC CSV statements without having to run them through OpenOffice > first? > > I've been using Moneywell since December and it is quite honestly the > best accounting application I've ever used. I've left my 5-star > feedback on MacUpdate. But his is the only problem I've hit. > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice!
You don't have to stick with the formats in the drop-down list. Just type in yyyy-MM-dd as the format and that should work. Peace, Kevin Hoctor [email protected] No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
