Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-10 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 9, 2008 9:29 PM, Ian Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/8, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Quoting Ian Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > >> Would it make sense to provide a boolean checkbox somewhere in the > > >> druid if we find one of these transactions to ask the user ho

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-09 Thread Ian Lewis
2008/1/8, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoting Ian Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Would it make sense to provide a boolean checkbox somewhere in the > >> druid if we find one of these transactions to ask the user how to > >> treat them? > > > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure the user would

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-09 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 8, 2008 5:02 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For your consideration, I've attached a patch that allows QIF split > > transactions with zero in the "T" line to pass through without sign > reversal > > (also described above). > > W

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread William D. Hamblen
Sorry about the misattribution - I think Derek suggested the checkbox. And yes, I am offering to collect at least the issues I am running across and write them up for posterity. There is nothing earth shattering (my biggest problems were fixed by patches that have already been committed). -

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting "William D. Hamblen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe recording the fact that this issue (and others like it) exist > would be worthy of an entry in the wiki? I imagine one of the more > common uses of the QIF importer is people coming from other > applications and while that will almost n

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Ian Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Would it make sense to provide a boolean checkbox somewhere in the >> druid if we find one of these transactions to ask the user how to >> treat them? > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure the user would know unless you start asking > stuff like, "Was this QIF c

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread William D. Hamblen
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ian Lewis wrote: >> "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Would it make sense to provide a boolean checkbox somewhere in the >> druid if we find one of these transactions to ask the user how to >> treat them? > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure the user would know unless

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread Ian Lewis
2008/1/8, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For your consideration, I've attached a patch that allows QIF split > > transactions with zero in the "T" line to pass through without sign > reversal > > (also described above). > > Would it make sense

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-08 Thread Derek Atkins
"Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For your consideration, I've attached a patch that allows QIF split > transactions with zero in the "T" line to pass through without sign reversal > (also described above). Would it make sense to provide a boolean checkbox somewhere in the druid if we f

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-07 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 6, 2008 1:33 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 2:54 PM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 4, 2008 9:37 AM, William D. Hamblen < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-06 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 4, 2008 2:54 PM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 9:37 AM, William D. Hamblen < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> There is some code in the QIF

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-05 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 5, 2008 12:18 AM, Thomas Baumgart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > on Friday 04 January 2008 23:54, Charles Day wrote: > > > > The biggest problem with QIF is that there really is no standard. > > > > > > > There are so many different ways to doing it that getting it right > > > > 1

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas Baumgart
Hi all, on Friday 04 January 2008 23:54, Charles Day wrote: > > The biggest problem with QIF is that there really is no standard. > > > > > There are so many different ways to doing it that getting it right > > > 100% of the time is impossible. > > I'd hazard to say that how Quicken uses QIF is t

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-04 Thread Charles Day
On Jan 4, 2008 9:37 AM, William D. Hamblen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> There is some code in the QIF importer which says that if a QIF split > >> transaction adds up to zero, then the

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-04 Thread William D. Hamblen
Hi everyone, On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> There is some code in the QIF importer which says that if a QIF split >> transaction adds up to zero, then the signs of all of its split lines >> must get reversed. It looks very deliberate. Doe

Re: QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is some code in the QIF importer which says that if a QIF split > transaction adds up to zero, then the signs of all of its split lines must > get reversed. It looks very deliberate. Does anyone know why this would > be? It is causing a probl

QIF importer treatment of zero-sum split transactions

2008-01-04 Thread Charles Day
There is some code in the QIF importer which says that if a QIF split transaction adds up to zero, then the signs of all of its split lines must get reversed. It looks very deliberate. Does anyone know why this would be? It is causing a problem: because the signs get reversed, any split lines tha