There was no problem with the department store file. The question is why it allowed double click on an "A" transaction to successfully open a window while this fails on the TIAA file. I wrote the details because it is unclear what exactly were the significant differences.
Dale On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, 3:09 PM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dale, > Not sure what you perceive as a problem with that department store > import. It is perfectly normal to need to make some corrections in the > matching step of the import. That is why that step is there. Some files > will go more smoothly than others. Imports from one of my credit cards all > come in with every amount reversed, for example, and there is no way I > could get them to fix that. > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 10:26 AM Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Curiously today I imported a QFX file generated by a department store. >> Unlike the TIAA file which had every line marked "A", this one had a >> variety of states. I manually fixed the transfer account on a few. Then I >> noticed one marked "A" had the wrong transfer account. Double clicking >> worked this time and I was able to change the transfer account. >> It appears that there is something going on with the parsing of the files >> and Quicken format. >> >> I looked in syslog and there were issues with both imports that produced >> messages. For the department store file there were complaints >> about parsing some date strings. For TIAA there several lines similar to >> this >> Jan 4 09:53:01 azul org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[883515]: >> LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate >> POSOTHER >> (POSOTHER replaced by other names in other lines) >> Whether this is significant I do not know. >> >> I know very little about Quicken format and nothing about how gnucash >> handles the import. So what is happening is a total mystery to me. I have >> not filed a bug report. >> >> >> Dale >> >> On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Dale, >> > >> > I am running V4.13 on Linux Mint 21.1(Vera) ( built from tarball on my >> > system and not Flatpak). >> > I have just downloaded an OFX file and imported it. Double clicking any >> > where in the currently selected transaction is bringing up the dialogue >> for >> > assigning the transfer account. >> > Similarly the right click brings up the dialogue to select the transfer >> > account for the current selection of transactions >> > . I still have the problem that only my right CTRL key can be used for >> > multiple selection ( that may possibly be a keyboard issue and not >> GnuCash) >> > but otherwise it all looks to be working normally. >> > >> > I have just run a keyboard tester and it appears my CTRL problem is the >> > keyboard, so GNuCash appears to be working fine on my system. >> > It is possibly a problem with access to your system resources from >> within >> > the flatpak environment. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > David Cousens >> > >> > >> > On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 14:47 -0600, Dale Alspach wrote: >> > >> > Upgrading to 4.13 changed the behavior. With "A" selected: Double click >> > still does nothing. Right click raises a menu with first choice "Assign >> a >> > transfer account to the selection" but selecting that does nothing. The >> > second choice "Edit description, notes or memo" does open an edit >> window. >> > >> > Dale >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 1:54 PM David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Dale, >> > >> > You may have to double click in the transfer account field. Try right >> > clicking >> > on the transaction and see if that works. That should also bring up the >> > dialog >> > for selecting the transfer account I have noticed in a few recent >> versions >> > (4.10 -4.12) that there have been some problems with selecting multiple >> > transactions to assign a single account to using the control and shift >> keys >> > which went away after I upgraded to a more recent version(currently >> 4.13). >> > It >> > wasn't consistentand in one case depended on which CTRL key I used on >> my >> > keyboard. I suspected these were likely due to changes in the underlying >> > GTK >> > library rather than code changes in GnuCash itself.. I've got to bring >> my >> > accounts up to data in the next day or two so will be using the >> importer a >> > bit. >> > I'll report back if I have any problems. >> > >> > David Cousens >> > >> > >> > On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 11:27 -0600, Dale Alspach wrote: >> > > Flathub gnucash 4.11 on linux mint. QFX file (Quicken) import. File >> > > downloaded from TIAA. >> > > The help for the import matcher claims that by double clicking on a >> > > transaction that one should be able to check or change the transfer >> > > account. This fails for a transaction matched as new. Double clicking >> > does >> > > nothing. Changing the type to U+C or C allows double clicking to open >> a >> > > window but discards the transfer account information, shows one side >> of a >> > > transaction, and does not show any means to add a transfer account. >> > > >> > > This seems to me to be a bug. Am I missing something? >> > > >> > > 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 >> > > ----- >> > > 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 >> > ----- >> > 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 >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > > -- > David Carlson > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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