Me too on "Match payees/memos to Gnucash accounts ignored during QIF import"?

Andreas Köhler andi5.py at gmx.net
Sun Apr 27 09:38:25 EDT 2008


Hi Kent,

Am Sonntag, den 27.04.2008, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Kent Dahl:
> Likely this is a duplicate of the issue mentioned in "Match payees/memos
> to Gnucash accounts ignored during QIF import" thread, but I didn't see
> any resolution nor bug number in the email thread and I noticed some
> things while playing with it.

Did you check http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520606 and the
corresponding patch
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/17010?format=diff&new=17010 ?

GnuCash 2.2.5, including the fix above, will appear tomorrow.

-- andi5

> I've recently upgraded from Kubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 and am starting my
> GnuCash accounting file from scratch (i.e. 2008 onwards) as the old one
> is getting a bit crufty (with 5 years of data). I'm thus reimporting the
> last three months of QIF files, which all imported OK on the old GnuCash
> file, before the upgrade. 
> 
> There should be nothing scary in my QIFs. They're simple things created
> by my dnbnor2qif Ruby script, so no L category lines etc. I'm also not
> using scheduled transations or anything else scary. Most complicated
> thing I have so far is a stock.
> 
> Reason for the email is that I noticed the QIF Import Druid has two
> dialogs; one for mapping QIF Categories and a second one for mapping QIF
> Memos. My files do not use any QIF categories ("L" entries), just Memos
> ("M"), for description. (Sample below.) But there still shows up one
> blank line under the QIF category mapping dialog, which then points to
> Unspecified. It seems this line overrides the memo/payee mapping done in
> the next dialog. If I change it to a generic expense in stead, they all
> end up there.
> 
> Interestingly, the one mapping that does survive and go into correct
> place is income, but that entry has an explicit payee ("P") entry in the
> QIF.
> 
> I'm using: GnuCash 2.2.4 (r16997 on 2008-03-27) (2.2.4-1ubuntu1)
> 
> The dnbnor2qif script:
> http://www.pvv.org/~kentda/ruby/filer/dnbnor2qif.tar.gz
> 
> P.S.: Thanks for all the great work on GnuCash. 
> 
> =====<SAMPLE>=====
> !Account
> NMy bank account
> ^
> !Type:Bank
> MPay the rent
> D03-01-2008
> T-15000.0
> ^
> !Type:Bank
> MSometing to eat
> D03-03-2008
> T-345.5
> N12345678
> ^
> =====</SAMPLE>=====
> 
> -- 
> Kent Dahl <kentda at pvv.org>
> http://www.pvv.org/~kentda/

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