Ah, I was talking of QIF, not QFX, sorry about that.
yes the java code writes QIF.
Ove.
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 20:45, Stu Perlman <sgperl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ove,
>
> Thanks for the info that you shared. Is your Java program writing to the
> QIF format or the OFX format?
>
> David - my apologies, I never noticed your reply to my original email last
> month! I'm happy to read that it should work.
>
> I'm still running GNC 3.8 from a mid-march build on my WIndows system. I
> have yet to get GNC, AqBanking 6.x and Citi's OFX API to all play well with
> each other. I am able to get my data from Citi by using an older AqB
> release that I have running under Cygwin to pull the data from the Citi's
> web server. I have found that in order to import the files that are
> download into GNC that I need to make one file for each account at Citi (by
> running aqbanking-cli for one account at a time). I then strip out the 1st
> dozen or so lines in the response received. I have managed to script most
> of this so it's not nearly as cumbersome as it may appear, but needing to
> enter the password once for each account at Citi is annoying as is needing
> to import multiple files into GNC instead of one consolidated file. I tried
> to eliminate the repeating password step with the Expect tool, but I could
> not get it to work in the Cygwin environment.
>
> Unfortunately, the other financial institutions where I have multiple
> accounts don't even support OFX (or at least if they do, the info is not
> available on OFXhome.net) so I don't know if the issues I have run into
> are caused by Citi, GNC, or AqB. These issues are not so annoying that I
> would go back to Quicken! LOL I may mess around with trying to automate
> my calls to aqbanking-cli using PowerShell so that I can take Cygwin out of
> the mix and/or just try moving over to my Ubuntu system for GNC.
>
> - Stu
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:40 PM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ove,
>>
>> I believe !Clear:AutoSwitch is only used in QIF imports. My OFX imports
>> have tags similar to
>>
>> <BANKID> <ACCTID> and <ACCTTYPE>.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:12 PM Ove Grunnér <write2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it works for me as well, but I know I need to put a specific line in the
>>> beginning of the file to let gnuCash know it is multi account
>>>
>>> open up your file and check if the firs line is:
>>> !Clear:AutoSwitch
>>>
>>> Try to add the line if it is missing.
>>>
>>> I use the below java code to write my import files.
>>>
>>> br
>>>
>>>
>>> try {
>>> FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(targetDirectoryPointer +
>>> targetQifFileName);
>>> BufferedWriter info = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
>>>
>>> // WRITE TO FILE
>>> // indicator for multi account import
>>> info.write("!Clear:AutoSwitch"+"\n");
>>>
>>> for (int acc=0; acc< maxAcc; acc++) {
>>>
>>> int transactionTableMaxRows =
>>> accountTable.getTransactionTableMaxRows(acc);
>>> DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
>>>
>>> // get data for this account
>>> String targetFileAccountName =
>>> accountTable.getTransactionTableAccountName(acc);
>>> String[] transactionDescription =
>>> accountTable.getTransactionDescription(acc);
>>> float[] transactionAmount = accountTable.getTransactionAmount(acc);
>>> float[] transactionBalance =
>>> accountTable.getTransactionBalance(acc);
>>> Date[] transactionDate = accountTable.getTransactionDate(acc);
>>>
>>> // WRITE TO FILE
>>> // New Account
>>> String account = accountDetailsGnuCashName[acc] ;
>>> info.write("!Account" + "\n" + "N" + account + "\n" + "^" + "\n");
>>>
>>>
>>> for (int l = 0; l < transactionTableMaxRows; l++) {
>>>
>>> // Transaction
>>> String type = "Bank";
>>> String date = dateFormat.format(transactionDate[l]);
>>> String amount = String.valueOf(transactionAmount[l]);
>>> String description = transactionDescription[l];
>>> String category = transactionDescription[l];
>>>
>>> info.write("!Type:" + type + "\n");
>>> info.write("D" + date + "\n");
>>> info.write("T" + amount + "\n");
>>> info.write("P" + description +"\n");
>>> info.write("L" + category + "\n");
>>> info.write("^" + "\n");
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> // Close File
>>> info.close();
>>>
>>> }
>>> catch (IOException e) {
>>> System.out.println("A write error has occurred");
>>> e.printStackTrace();
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 15:21, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stu,
>>>>
>>>> I have been importing OFX files from my bank for years with three or
>>>> four
>>>> checking or savings accounts in one file, so I know GnuCash release
>>>> 2.6.19
>>>> can import OFX files with multiple accounts. It is possible but
>>>> unlikely
>>>> that GnuCash has lost that ability in recent releases. You may have
>>>> something else happening in your case.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:58 AM Stu Perlman <sgperl...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I am using GNC on Windows 10. I have a fairly recent build, dated
>>>> March 9
>>>> > from the maintenance branch.
>>>> >
>>>> > I noticed that I'm still unable to use AqBanking to get OFX data from
>>>> Citi
>>>> > into GNC. I Did a little exploring and discovered that if I
>>>> manipulate the
>>>> > file in C:\tmp\ofx.log and break it into separate parts for each
>>>> account
>>>> > that was downloaded that GNC will import the data just fine if it's
>>>> limited
>>>> > to one account per file. I also believe, but I need to confirm that
>>>> I can
>>>> > leave all of the data in a single file but that I need to eliminate a
>>>> lot
>>>> > lines starting with the closing tags for the first account's response
>>>> body
>>>> > and up to and including the opening tags for the subsequent accounts'
>>>> > response bodies.
>>>> >
>>>> > Has anyone else encountered this issue and if so, do you have any
>>>> ideas how
>>>> > to fix this? Is it a defect?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks in advance for your help.
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