Also, you definitely would not want to double-import the same
transaction, so there isn't a good reason to want to mock with the
FITID. What *could* be useful (but in extremely rare cases) would be to
force a re-import of the same transaction despite the fact that it's
been imported previous, while avoiding a duplication (i.e. the second
import would update the existing transaction instead of being skipped
altogether). But I don't see a good reason to implement that at this
point... Deleting the existing one achieves the same result for these
rare cases.
Jean
On 5/13/24 3:12 PM, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote:
On May 13, 2024, at 17:50, David Carlson<david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
Now it is my turn to ask a question.
My bank recently had an issue with the description text for a few
transactions that resulted in the transactions being reposted with
corrected descriptions. Now I am trying to import the corrected
transactions but they do not appear in the OFX importer even though they
are in the file generated by the bank.
My question is: If I delete the previously imported transactions, can I
import the corrected transactions?
yes.
A corollary; is there any way to check, edit or remove the FITID value of a
transaction that prevents the duplicate import without doing tricks in the
OFX file before importing?
only if you are willing to risk damaging your datafile editing it outside of
gnucash. The FITID values are stored as a key/value pair like:
<slot>
<slot:key>online_id</slot:key>
<slot:value type="string">20180906246910059666</slot:value>
</slot>
and finding specific transactions in the raw XML is harder than you might
imagine. The online_id is not available to the user anywhere in the gnucash
interface.
I have never tried editing a gnucash SQL file outside of gnucash.
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