I'm afraid my notes are not generic enough for that. My notes are
literally the name and location of the purchase, which could be any shop
in any city or any website. Generally, the bank statement will have good
enough information, but there are a lot of locations that use Square,
for instance, and then losing the note may obscure the place of
purchase. Creating an account for every location I've ever purchased
anything from might provide some interesting insights, but I should
think those could be obtained with reporting outside of such a complex
account structure.
On 8/27/21 1:24 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
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.
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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>"
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Subject: [GNC] Can I Prevent OFX/QFX Import Overwriting Notes?
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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?
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