Upon re-reading in more detail I find it is exactly your idea to make it depend on the account-id. I am not sure how this interacts with the csv importer. So perhaps all of my reservations are moot.
Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 11 september 2021 10:44:18 CEST schreef Geert Janssens: > Hi Chris, > > I haven't followed the original issue discussion in detail so I can only add > some generic considerations. > > The generic import transaction matcher is used by both the OFX and the csv > importer (and perhaps even by the aqbanking one as well). So your option > would affect all of these. > > Saving this value just like that would mean it will define behaviour of all > two or three importers at once. Imagine a user imports in three different > formats depending on the bank to import from, would it then be desirable to > have this option set for all different banks ? Or would it be more desirable > to have it apply only to specific bank accounts ? The latter could even be > the case if a user imports ofx data from two different banks. Perhaps only > for one bank you'd want this override and not for the other ? > > In other words my concern is that making it a single book level option may > be too generic and while it would reduce effort in the use case you have in > mind it may increase effort in other scenarios. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op zaterdag 11 september 2021 10:22:07 CEST schreef Chris Good: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm working on adding an "Append" checkbox to the bottom of the "Generic > > import transaction matcher" so that when Update+Clear'ing > > > > a matched transaction, the imported Trans->Desc and Trans->Notes can be > > optionally appended to the matched transaction Desc/Notes > > > > instead of overriding them. > > > > > > > > I'd like to store the value of the checkbox (True or False) for the > > imported account so that in the next import, it will default to the same > > value. > > > > > > > > I'm thinking this should be a KVP, either: > > > > 1. A New slot under the account or > > 2. Add a pipe symbol and the True or False value to the end of the > > account "online_id" slot > > > > > > > > I assume a new slot would be backwards compatible with older versions of > > GnuCash as they would just be ignored. > > > > > > > > Is a new slot the way to go? Any hints on how to do this please? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Chris Good > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
