Dale, ISTR a commit from last fall by Mike Alexander addressing exactly this issue, though I cannot now find it. Try GnuCash 3.9 or later.
Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 3, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The first stage of the import does not appear to be using ACCTID. I was > only asked once for each security which gnucash account to use though in a > few cases there were transactions for the same security in more than one > TIAA account. Worse the ACCTID information, which includes the contract > number, is not being displayed at this stage so this is nearly useless. It > may be that the next stage matcher uses the ACCTID information, but because > its memory was wiped with the upgrade I cannot tell. > > gnucash 3.8 is the current version in the package manager. Upgrading would > require finding another source for a built package, using a flatpak or > compiling it myself. I scanned through the release notes and bug reports > and did not see anything specifically related to this issue. > > A possibility is that TIAA has changed something in the qfx data. I did not > investigate this possibility. > > Dale > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 9:18 PM David Reiser <dbrei...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> It at least uses the <ACCTID>, which is matched via the >> outside-account-to-gnucash-account list. And imports of multiple TIAA >> contracts containing multiple instances of the same fund do work correctly >> if the links are set up correctly. I’m currently using gnucash 4.1, but I >> don’t recall problems with 3.8 specifically. There was one version where >> changes in the matcher resulted in requests to re-establish links to the >> various TIAA accounts and funds. >> >> I frequently have to undo my choices when I get one of those dialogs >> because I’m not careful enough at reading the exact language at the top of >> the dialog. I haven’t made many changes lately, but I think you’ll get a >> request to identify a security, but that usually also includes a statement >> about which TIAA contract is involved. Then (? hmm, not sure of the order…) >> it’ll ask you for a gnucash account to associate with a specific TIAA >> contract. Somewhere along the way, there’s a question about which account >> to associate income from the various contracts and/or funds. Most of that >> used to get rolled up inside the TIAA/CREF funds, but now at least one of >> our contracts splits out a special fee/credit that is something like the >> net difference between dividends and fees for several of the funds. >> >> If your employer hasn’t done an administrative change that would kick some >> extra transactions into your ofx stream (and there appears to be a lot of >> pressure from somewhere to do that), then having gnucash ask for additional >> matching info is a bit strange. One other possibility is that your >> employer’s plan has qualified for a better version of the same fund you’ve >> had for a while (R3 vs R2 fee levels, higher digit is lower fees). One >> example is CREF stock R3 (QCSTIX in public symbol world) vs CREF stock R2 >> (QCSTPX). >> >> Since there have been a few import transaction matcher changes lately, I’d >> recommend giving gnucash version 4.1 a try if you can. I’m unfamiliar with >> the version availability in the linux prepackaged realm. >> -- >> Dave Reiser >> dbrei...@icloud.com >> >> >> >> >>> On Aug 2, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> When importing a .qfx file does the matcher use the tags <BROKERID> and >>> <ACCTID>? >>> >>> The issue is that I download transactions from TIAA which are from >> multiple >>> accounts but are in the same download. There are some mutual funds which >>> are held in more than one account. >>> I recently upgraded to gnucash 3.8. I started to do an import in gnucash >>> 3.8 (linux mint 20) and was asked to match a fund to an account but was >>> only given the cusip number. which refers to a security which could be in >>> any one of 3 gnucash accounts. >>> If I recall correctly older versions of gnucash gave the name of the fund >>> and the TIAA contract number. >>> >>> Dale >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
