It's been rumoured that Bill Gribble said:
>
> Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sooo (sound of lightbulb turning on) isn't the right way to import
> > QIF files is to run them through a reconcile-like dialogue?
>
> However, as you point out, downloading short snippets of QIF from the
> bank is a pretty common operation, and for this case we need a way of
> comparing the transactions that are being imported with
> already-existing transactions so as to match up QIF imported ones with
> ones you entered from your checkbook.
Its not just 'matching them up', its also marking them as 'tentatively
cleared' in the reconcile dialog. Basically, since the qif is 'just
like' a paper statement one got from the bank, it should be treated the
same way (but automated). New transactions should be 'tentatively
added' and old transactions 'tentatively cleared', until the user can
review the contents of the 'reconcile' window, and make the changes
permanent.
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More generically, I was looking at the reconcile window as 'a place to
review changes before they are made permanent', which one might even be
interested in having when doing mass-imports of raw data.
--linas
