Before you go down that path see if any others on this maillist have had the same problem with release 3.3. I am still on 2.6.15 or 17, so I have not seen the revised importers.
David C On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:31 PM Alan Marsh <a...@marsh.ac> wrote: > The "new and improved" online banking allows me to export to .csv, .ofx, > .qfx, and .qbo > > I am using the File > Import > Import OFX/QFX menu option. > > Even in the CSV format, the Description and Memo fields show the same as > <NAME> and <MEMO> in both .ofx and .qfx > > I'm thinking I'll have to pre-process the file as John mentions. > > I'm very out of date on programming stuff and only dabbled with Python > once... stuck in a corporate Microsoft world. > > Any suggestions on what to use and maybe a sample script from someone else > forced to do this sort of thing. Last time this happened, I changed credit > unions. Besides this one problem, I'm pretty happy at this one. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, at 11:41 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > What do you mean by online banking.? Are you actually using the OFX > import? > > If so, just do not use the option to update the transaction when > matching. Then Gnucash leaves the description unchanged. > > David C > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 7:49 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 29, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Alan Marsh <a...@marsh.ac> wrote: > > > > NAME and MEMO were identical in old xml (either ofx or qfx) > > <NAME>POS PURCH - KROGER FUEL CTR 554 > > <MEMO>POS PURCH - KROGER FUEL CTR 5542 IL DECATUR > > 4615 E. US ROUTE 36US > > After online banking upgrade it now gives me > > > > <NAME>POS PURCH > > <MEMO>KROGER FUEL CTR 5542 IL DECATUR 4615 E. US > > ROUTE 36US > > Which means all transactions in gnucash say just POS PURCH for the > > Description and you have to expand each one to see the actual memo entry > > to know who was paid. > > Any idea how to fix this? > > Does your bank offer QIF export? Maybe they didn't bork that. Otherwise > you're stuck with pre-processing the file with the scripting language of > your choice. > > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
