Re: [GNC] Defining Keyboard shortcuts for Menu Functions

2024-03-07 Thread Jean L
You have a typo in your second line (missing > after Primary). I don't know whether that screws up the import of the file, or if the typo is only in your email, but that could be the reason it's not working? Jean On 3/7/2024 5:02 PM, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: Thanks Jean... I tried this as

Re: [GNC] Online Banking

2023-12-17 Thread Jean L
There's also this: https://github.com/reubano/csv2ofx I haven't tried it, just wanted to mention that sometimes you can find really great stuff on github, which isn't reported in a google search On 12/17/2023 11:52 AM, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: I never got aqbanking to

Re: [GNC] Importing data from QuickBooks Online

2023-07-03 Thread Jean L
This may be slightly off topic, or too late to help, but... In github, there is a repository https://github.com/tim-rohrer/move2gnucash That seems pretty well setup to migrate your data from a quicken csv export to GC. I haven't used it, but I looked at it for a friend and it looked

Re: [GNC] Using Plaid

2023-03-01 Thread Jean L
And now, vanguard apparently no longer offers OFX as a download option, just csv files. >:( hopefully this is temporary, but I'm not holding my breath. The entire download-you-data landscape for finances in the US is just broken Jean On 3/1/2023 2:51 AM, Steve Brown wrote: This is

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
Also, this https://github.com/jrwrigh/csv2cash Could be the answer to what you're trying to do? Jean On 1/7/2023 12:51 PM, Tim Rohrer wrote: On Jan 7, 2023, at 2:32 PM, Jean L wrote: OK so I found that GC fais to import this ofx because the account name is too long. This is probably

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25) On Jan 7, 2023, at 12:53 PM, Jean L wrote: And you're saying that when you import this into a blank account, nothing shows up? On 1/7/2023 10:52 AM, Tim Rohrer wrote: Thanks, Jean. Here is the entire file (attached and pasted). For testing, I was simply trying to

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
INFO 20230107105800 ENG 0 INFO USD b9fc6ca936ba09958d5076dd5ebfac69 384d7d0b77b259606be9c29de2e05b45 CHECKING 19700101 20230107 CREDIT 2022010100 500.00 743df964dc21309d6d8a7c0ca5eaa657 Tim On Jan 7, 2023, at 12:41 PM, Jean L wrote: Can you post a small OFX file that's

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
Can you post a small OFX file that's generated that way? I'll take a quick look. Jean On 1/7/2023 10:18 AM, Tim Rohrer wrote: I'm continuing my experimentation to migrate my Quicken for Mac data. I believe I'm on track for the investments, so I've switched back to regular accounts.

Re: [GNC] Autofill on import OFX?

2022-12-31 Thread Jean L
No you don't need to do anything for it to learn, except select the account the transaction should be associated with when you import the transaction so the matcher can remember that. Of course, that's only if you haven't already entered the transaction manually (in which case you already

Re: [GNC] Autofill on import OFX?

2022-12-31 Thread Jean L
The transfer will be automatically assigned once you import a few transactions. GC is smart in the way it learns from previous imported transactions which account a given imported transaction should be assigned to. So give it a little time and it'll do the right thing. Another thing you may

Re: [GNC] Matching error in OFX import

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
the latest version--I'm on 3.8, so I think I should upgrade it and try again.) On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 6:57 PM Jean L wrote: We might need a bit more info to give a useful answer. But just to be sure: - The FITID of the transactions in the OFX file are all different, right

Re: [GNC] Matching error in OFX import

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
We might need a bit more info to give a useful answer. But just to be sure: - The FITID of the transactions in the OFX file are all different, right? That's an absolute requirement, not just within a single OFX file, but from ofx to ofx, the FITID is supposed to identify one and only 1

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
action? On 12/30/2022 2:20 PM, Phyllis Bruce wrote: Jean and  Adrien, I use QFX and reconciling is a pain!  When I import and data from my bank and begin reconciliation I often find the GNC has ignored the existing unreconciled transactions and created new cleared ones. On Fri, Dec 30, 202

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
I don't think you can "tweak" the OFX import. OFX import relies on an external library (ofxlib I think?). Are the dates way off? I've never noticed anything weird like that in my own OFX imports (which I do a lot of) the dates seem to always coincide. This *could* be a problem with the OFX

Re: [GNC] Import is finding no matching transactions

2022-05-14 Thread Jean L
regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Sat, May 14, 2022, 14:20 Jean L wrote: Can you give us more details? Are you saying that GC does not show matching transactions, but does it at least show the imported transactions (and fails to find matches)? Note that the transaction dates have to match

Re: [GNC] Import is finding no matching transactions

2022-05-14 Thread Jean L
Can you give us more details? Are you saying that GC does not show matching transactions, but does it at least show the imported transactions (and fails to find matches)? Note that the transaction dates have to match (the imported transactions and the ones you have in your ledger) for them to

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Jean L
You launch GC with the --debug flag. If you're on MacOS, you have to go to a console, find the path to your Gnucash, then do GnucashApp/contents/MacOs/Gnucash/Gnucash --debug (from memory, so I'm sure some of this is wrong) Same idea on windows and linux, launch from the command line with the

Re: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

2022-04-29 Thread Jean L
Again: the "append" check mark in the import dialog appends notes from the OFX to the notes you put in instead of replacing them if 'u+c' is selected. On 4/29/2022 6:51 PM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user wrote: Gyle, I do this when I remember, especially with regard to checks. But I've

Re: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

2022-04-29 Thread Jean L
There's check box "append" in the import  dialog that does what you're asking for... J. On 4/29/2022 6:18 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Eric, I know you probably tried this , but when you are importing Are you checking the "c" box and not the "u+c" box. The "c" only clears, whereas the "u+c"

Re: [GNC] Transaction Date issues during import OFX file (TD Bank)

2022-01-13 Thread Jean L
I'm a bit confused by this discussion. Is there a consensus as to whether the bug is located in libofx, or whether libofx is passing on the right info, and GC is misinterpreting it? Jean On 1/13/2022 8:41 PM, David Carlson wrote: I have kept copies of OFX exports from several FI's for my

Re: [GNC] Gnucash import QIF issue

2022-01-10 Thread Jean L
Also, can you tell us which version you're using, and which OS? On 1/10/2022 4:21 AM, subscr...@nock.org.uk wrote: I am trying to import a QIF file from Quicken XG 2004 for the UK. Loading the file etc seems to be fine and I can get through all the option windows. It. The import

Re: [GNC] Gnucash import QIF issue

2022-01-10 Thread Jean L
Can you do a bit of debugging? https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile That way we can get a chance to see where the crash happens. Another option is to send your qif file to one of us for us to repro the issue, but that's probably not something you

Re: [GNC] Incorrect QFX Import

2021-12-29 Thread Jean L
OK, that would have been too easy :D... Any chance you could send me the OFX? Remove anything that's private in it if you want. I'll debug on my end. If you get a chance, open a bug, and put the file there, otherwise send it to me directly... Thanks! Jean On 12/29/2021 7:58 PM, Steve Cohen

Re: [GNC] Incorrect QFX Import

2021-12-29 Thread Jean L
There a debug flag you can enable to have info printed out when transactions are skipped, but I don't remember off the top of my head which flag that is. On 12/29/2021 3:42 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: It would be nice to have visibility of these imported transactions? Checkbox at the bottom

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
:17, Jean L wrote: Apparently not merged yet, sorry https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1167 I have no control over what gets merged when, hopefully soon? In the meatime you can get that branch, rebase on main if needs be, and test... On 11/21/2021 7:07 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: On 21

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
, Jean L wrote: This should be fixed in the next release. The code is already in. In where?  I just rebuilt from commit 3f758ff2 which was the end of the Maint branch around 7PM EST tonight and when I imported my wife's TIAA changes I had to click OK over 20 times.  The last change to  gnc-ofx

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
This should be fixed in the next release. The code is already in. Thanks for your patience. To answer your question. Some ofx files have transfer between two accounts (at the same bank) which show up as two transactions that are the two ends of the transfer. GC used to then import them as

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-05 Thread Jean L
Thanks! That's good news! J. On 10/5/2021 7:25 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: I loaded up 4.8 version of GnuCash on another computer last night and imported one of the file that is most complex that had failed to import properly on 4.5 version of GnuCash. Good news is that where I was seeing 4.5

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-03 Thread Jean L
Kalpesh, if you could give me samples of OFX files that do not work with the current code, I'd be happy to fix the issues. I've been working on the OFX import (not the libofx, but GC part of it) and it's quite possible that some of the issues that you're seeing are caused by GC, and not

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-02 Thread Jean L
duplicate transactions! Although, if you close and re-open the file, those duplicated transactions do not appear when you re-open the account register. I don't know what to make of that. On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 1:52 PM Jean L wrote: Yes, there's a new behavior with OFX import. The match dialog shows u

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-02 Thread Jean L
Yes, there's a new behavior with OFX import. The match dialog shows up for each target account, so if you're importing securities the dialog will show up for each security. This could be a real annoyance if there are many different securities, so we may want to change that behavior. The new

Re: [GNC] Problems setting up first OFX transaction download

2021-09-29 Thread Jean L
I'm exactly in the same boat. Online banking does not work for my banks, so I download ofx by hand and import into GC. Not ideal, but it works. J. On 9/29/2021 3:53 PM, David Carlson wrote: David, There are multiple ways to skin that cat, and it is not clear which one you are asking about.

Re: [GNC] Changing multiple transactions

2021-01-31 Thread Jean L
Note: as a dev I have (and probably many before me) tried to look at what it would take allow selecting multiple transactions at the same time and then do an operation. Sadly, there's no quick fix to GC that could make this happen, it's a large re-write apparently. One dev looked (is looking?)