Bill Gribble wrote:
> tboldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yesterday I downloaded a qif file from my online bank of all
> > scheduled transactions. I tried to import the qif file into gnucash
> > - nothing happened - no error messages, no dialog boxes, no entries
> > in the appropriate account for the imported transactions. I didn't
> > look exhaustively through all accounts to check if they went into
> > any account(s).
>
> By "scheduled transactions" do you mean just normal transactions that
> occur with dates in the future, or something related to Quicken's
> recurring transaction model? If the transactions are "Memorized" or
> recurring or otherwise not concrete transactions, the gnucash QIF
> importer ignores them. That will be fixed when Gnucash starts to
> support recurring transactions sometime in the 1.5 series.]
Normal transactions with future dates
>
>
> If you can't get your QIF to import correctly, could you email it to
> me so I can figure out why?
>
> > What does gnucash do when importing transactions from a qif file with
> > dates in the future?
>
> That should work fine. The date itself isn't ever examined, so the
> past and the future are no different.
>
> > Also, if the transactions went into another account, how do I
> > control which account the transactions go into when the file itself
> > does not specify an account - the bank has no means of identifying
> > the account when they create the qif file and send it.
>
> You specify the name of the Quicken account in the "Default QIF
> Account" entry box in the Files tab of the QIF import dialog. After
> selecting the QIF file, you enter the account name in the box,
> unselect the "Auto" toggle button, then click "Load File".
>
> To map this Quicken account on to a Gnucash account, you go to the
> "Accounts" tab of the Quicken import dialog and check the automatic
> mapping from Quicken to Gnucash account. If there is an incorrect
> mapping, click on the incorrect line and enter the correct Gnucash
> account information in the dialog that pops up.
I can see that I need much more study of the import dialog - If online
banking works as I hope in the future then I will obviously be doing much
more importing of QIF files.
I just retried after reading the above quick tutorial - got the error
message that gnucash could not autodetect the date format (or something
along those lines). Will have to re-examine the qif file and specify a
date format that will hopefully work.
Will continue studying the import dialog until I get this to work
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Gribble
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