I think we're talking about OFX here, which is a lot more robust that
QIF as far as importing. In any event, when you combine the OFX files,
the OFX import is done sequentially (apparently) in GC as if you opened
them one after the other, but I may be wrong. The transactions do all
appear combined in a single match dialog, which is super nice.
Jean
On 4/15/20 3:42 PM, David Carlson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 5:22 PM Jean Laroche <rip...@gmail.com
<mailto:rip...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I hacked some python code to do that if you're interested. I'm taking
ofx files, reading them and combining them just the way you describe
it.
It's not beautiful code but it works.
What would be awesome would be if you could select multiple files in
GC,
and then do the import!
Jean,
I don't know if it is still true with the current QIF importer, but IIRC
back in the release 2.4.x era the QIF importer could handle multiple
files in one pass. The downside was that it couldn't match both sides of
a transfer in the same file. Multiple files would be a nice Request for
Improvement if it did match transfers.
On 4/15/20 2:58 PM, Stu Perlman wrote:
> I did some experimenting today and I think I am seeing something
similar.
>
> If I take the </OFX> tag that ends the first account’s
transaction data
> and then select all text up to and including the <OFX> tag that
starts
> the next account’s transaction it will work perfectly.
>
> There is a bunch of stuff in between those two tags, including
another
> pair of <OFX> </OFX> tags that wrap some header info that appears
before
> the second account’s transactions.
>
> I’d rather not have to manipulate the file each time so if I can
figure
> out a script that can do what I am doing by hand I should be set.
If
> it’s not the same number of lines or characters each time my
script
> will need to be able to detect the correct tags as start and stop
points
> before removing the text. I plan on working on this a little
more now
> that I know it is possible to import multiple accounts using a
single file.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:11 PM jean laroche <rip...@gmail.com
<mailto:rip...@gmail.com>
> <mailto:rip...@gmail.com <mailto:rip...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> Well, combined OFX files *are* supported, at least when the
> originate from the same bank.
> I just created a combined OFX file by joining two separate OFX
> files, and putting the two data in between the BANKMSGSRSV1
tags in
> a row.
>
> <BANKMSGSRSV1>
> ....
> </BANKMSGSRSV1>
> <BANKMSGSRSV1>
> ....
> </BANKMSGSRSV1>
>
> In other words, I took everything that was between
<BANKMSGSRSV1>
> and </BANKMSGSRSV1> (including these) from one file, and
copied it
> right after the
> </BANKMSGSRSV1> from the other file, saved and imported. I
get the
> transactions from both accounts in one shot.
> That's pretty cool.
> So if that's not working for you, you should look at your OFX
file
> and try to identify where the problem originates...
> Jean
>
>
> On 4/14/2020 1:29 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> Stu,
>>
>> Are you doing online banking through GnuCash or importing OFX
>> files that you downloaded earlier?
>>
>> I am importing OFX files that I imported directly from my bank's
>> website.
>>
>> I think that the same OFX format is used either way but a
>> different procedure is used to get the data into GnuCash.
>>
>> When I mentioned three tags that appear in OFX files that I
>> receive I only gave selected examples not a complete
definition.
>> One would need to get a copy of the OFX standard for
completeness.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 3:14 PM Stu Perlman
<sgperl...@gmail.com <mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com <mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com>>>
wrote:
>>
>> Jean, I always assumed it was supported because if you
use GNC
>> to configure
>> AqB, you only need to set up one User per financial
>> institution even though
>> you can set up multiple accounts for that single user.
>>
>> - Stu
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:01 PM Jean Laroche
<rip...@gmail.com <mailto:rip...@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:rip...@gmail.com <mailto:rip...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> > BTW, that's a feature I was interested in (importing
>> combined OFX
>> > files). If there are others interested, I'll look at a way
>> to support
>> > that. Another thing that I miss is the ability to
automatically
>> > reconcile after an OFX import (not to highjack this
thread).
>> > J.
>> >
>> > On 4/14/20 12:53 PM, Ove Grunnér wrote:
>> > > 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 <mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com>
<mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com
<mailto: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 <mailto:write2...@gmail.com>
<mailto:write2...@gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com
<mailto: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 <mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com>
<mailto:sgperl...@gmail.com <mailto: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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