I've established a bit of a different workflow. I "convert" what would have been the note into a very specific sub-account so that no matter what the note's information doesn't get lost. For example if I paid for a gift via check for xyz then I will create a sub account of xyz under gifts (Expenses:Gifts:XYZ) if I want to track it for that specific person but if not I can always assign the expense category of gifts (Expenses:Gifts) as a more general way. This way those notes shows up correctly in the report too. Far as I know, there is no limit how deep of nest it can be in such fashion.
If the enhancement were to come, it would be great since I have accounts on both side of the transactions that get downloaded via OFX so I can cross reference them, for example check number 123 from a bank on one side and as note for credit card payment on the second side, while display description can say something a bit about transaction like CC Charges payment. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:55:35 -0400 From: gcul...@mynym.us <mailto:gcul...@mynym.us> To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> " <gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Can I Prevent OFX/QFX Import Overwriting Notes? Message-ID: <1ba8c2d0-0b20-42dc-bcbf-5946e6173...@mynym.us <mailto:1ba8c2d0-0b20-42dc-bcbf-5946e6173...@mynym.us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I wouldn't be surprised if this has been asked in the past, but I don't know of a good way to search the archives for these mailing lists (seems I'd have to download a month at a time in order to search manually). I also wouldn't be surprised if the answer is blatantly obvious / right in front of me and I'm just missing it. I did try an Internet search and got too many irrelevant results (outside of the manual and basic import information, which I did look through a bit, without much luck). I recently migrated from an old PC to a new Mac. As far as I can tell, I was running GnuCash 2.6.16-1 on the PC (I don't remember why I stopped updating), but I figured I should upgrade during the transition, so I'm running 4.6-1 on the Mac. I have always downloaded OFX and/or QFX files from my banks in order to reconcile my manual entries and import additional transaction data (using U+C to complete my register). For the manual entries, I have always used the notes field in the register for most of my bank accounts because there's typically nothing worth importing there anyway (just something like "OFX ext. info: |Trans type:Generic debit"). Previously, on the PC, my manually entered notes were NOT overwritten. Now that I'm on the Mac, the notes are being overwritten by that arcane data, but I don't know if that is a PC vs Mac thing or a version change thing. I also don't know if there is anything I can do to prevent it in either case. What I do know is that the behavior is consistent across file types and banks (I ignored it the first time it happened because I didn't want to re-enter a bunch of previous transactions in order to try to work around it, but I was expecting it this time, with a different bank providing the data, and confirmed it happens for both formats). I don't really want to lose my manually entered data, but I would like to have the bank data imported an synchronized as well. Is there anything I can do so that the generic transaction information doesn't overwrite my previously entered notes? ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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.
