On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:57:35PM -0600, Bill Gribble wrote:
> Scott Haug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > As mentioned, there were still lots of duplicates. Almost all of
> > the duplicates had the same exact date, amount, etc.
>
> Were the duplicate transactions ones where both "twins" were imported
> at the same time, or was one copy imported with one import session and
> the duplicate with another session?
>
Multiple import sessions.
> If you had duplicate transfer transactions on a "clean",
> "all-files-at-once" import, that's a problem; my code tries quite hard
> to detect and eliminate those duplicates.
Hmm. Looks like I used the import tool wrong, based on your comments here and
below. I basically did the following:
Import->Select->Load->OK->Import->Select->Load->OK-> ... etc. ...
If I understand you correctly, the correct way to do this is
Import->Select->Load->Select->Load->Select->Load-> ... etc. ... ->OK
Is this the way the importer is supposed to work? I didn't realize it was
designed to select->load more than one qif before you OK'd out of the dialog.
I guess the mistake was mine. I'll try this way when I get home from work.
>
> The most likely cause for this situation that I can imagine is that
> the import dialog was associating the wrong Quicken account name with
> some files. If the account names are not correct in the Files tab,
> the transactions won't match up, even if you make the two different
> accounts in the Accounts tab point to the same thing.
>
> This seems to be the biggest source of confusion about running the QIF
> import dialog. Can someone provide a suggestion as to how it can be
> made crystal clear in the UI that if you don't fill that in correctly
> you will get unexpected results?
I'm not sure... See below for one possibility.
> > * In making it a druid/wizard, you could have "Next" buttons for
> > each tab, so that a new user would know to follow the steps in the
> > order shown, and that each step has important information they
> > should check out. The final tab would then have a "Finish" button,
> > as well as an "Import Another QIF File" button, that would start the
> > wizard over again.
>
> The thing here is that the workflow isn't start->finish->repeat.
> You have to load ALL the files first, then finish.
I understand now. I think it could be a little clearer, though, that you
shouldn't exit the importer until /all/ desired qif's have been loaded.
Man, I feel kinda stupid...
>
> I see your point, though, and I'll think about how to improve the
> "tutorial-ness" of the dialog.
I still think a more traditional druid approach could still be applied.
Start -> Select -> Load -> Check, Correct -> More? No -> Finish
^-------------------------------------- Yes
Or not. Do I still not understand?
>
> > As I mentioned, the importer crashed gnucash a couple times on me.
> > It happened when I imported my qif files in a certain order.
>
> If you could produce a little more information about this, I would
> really appreciate it. I haven't been able to crash the dialog
> lately, so I will need some more info to fix this problem.
>
Like I mentioned, I'm planning on it. I'm not at home at the moment, so I was
just recollecting from memory. Since I did get it to work with another qif
order, I didn't spend a lot of time dwelling on the broken order.
> b.g.
>
Thanks again, Bill, for the importer tool. It basically allowed me to overcome
the one major hurdle I had for using gnucash on a regular basis.
-Scott
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