Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-07-20 Thread Stephen R. Besch
Derek Atkins wrote: David Reiser writes: I'm not sure how the 'lots' function is intended to work. It would be a good idea to at least understand that plan so that you don't do something that impedes lots when they finally hit release status. Lots are designed to help you map buys an

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-07-20 Thread Derek Atkins
David Reiser writes: > I'm not sure how the 'lots' function is intended to work. It would be > a good idea to at least understand that plan so that you don't do > something that impedes lots when they finally hit release status. Lots are designed to help you map buys and sells. Beyond that I'm

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-07-15 Thread David Reiser
On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Martin Preuss wrote: Hi, On Montag, 8. Juni 2009, Martin Preuss wrote: [...] So I need some help: Could someone please explain what number and kind of transactions and splits need to be created when importing investment transactions? There seems to be special h

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-07-14 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Montag, 8. Juni 2009, Martin Preuss wrote: [...] > So I need some help: Could someone please explain what number and kind of > transactions and splits need to be created when importing investment > transactions? There seems to be special handling for REINVEST and INCOME > type investment tr

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-08 Thread David Reiser
On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Martin Preuss wrote: [snip] So I need some help: Could someone please explain what number and kind of transactions and splits need to be created when importing investment transactions? I'm not well versed in these -- I can do a manual transaction entry, and l

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Montag, 8. Juni 2009, Derek Atkins wrote: > Martin Preuss writes: [...] > > My guess is that the AqBanking import code in GnuCash doesn't expect to > > encounter investment data (because until now there wasn't any), so it > > simply handles everything as bank transactions. > > > > I would

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Martin, Martin Preuss writes: > Hi, > > ok, so something probably needs to be done in Gnucash. > > As a first step: Could you maybe create or modify a to-be-imported OFX file > and send it to me? I could then create an import context file and inspect it. > After that I can look for the reason

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-06 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, ok, so something probably needs to be done in Gnucash. As a first step: Could you maybe create or modify a to-be-imported OFX file and send it to me? I could then create an import context file and inspect it. After that I can look for the reason why GnuCash doesn't accept the data as stoc

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-05 Thread Stephen R. Besch
Martin, The problem s that when an OFX stock transaction is included in the transaction list, it gets treated by GnuCash like a cash transaction, even though it is marked as a stock and has all the transaction data in the correct places in the transaction record (CUSIP, Shares, Trade Price, T

[Fwd: Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements]

2009-06-05 Thread Stephen R. Besch
Apparently this didn't get posted to the list, as it should have. I sent it only to Martin - so for the historical record: Martin, Actually, the patches should have no effect at all on other applications. I was very careful to make sure that the behavior of the patched aqbanking routines was

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-04 Thread Thomas Baumgart
On Thursday 04 June 2009 23:26:03 Martin Preuss wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2009, Stephen R. Besch wrote: > [...] > > > 1) Patch aqbanking to simply save a copy of the OFX data returned > > from the bank, skipping any attempt at parsing the file. > > [...] > > Hmm... I have a bit of

Re: Online OFX import of Investment Statements

2009-06-04 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2009, Stephen R. Besch wrote: [...] > 1) Patch aqbanking to simply save a copy of the OFX data returned > from the bank, skipping any attempt at parsing the file. [...] Hmm... I have a bit of a problem to commit the AqBanking patches. The idea behind the AqBanking