Please file this observation as a bug report in bugzilla, preferably with a test OFX file so that this error can readily be reproduced by the developers. Thanks!
Christian Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2009 22:26 schrieb Dave: > I want to report some observations (bugs?) regarding gnucash's OFX import > function. > > With the import of any OFX file I have tested, there is a reproducible bug. > The bug shows up in two different ways depending on the content of the > ACCTTYPE element in the OFX file. > > *Case 1:* > <ACCTTYPE>*MONEYMRKT*</BANKACCTFROM> > > This will cause the new account dialog to malfunction such that you cannot > create a new account while importing the data in this OFX file. > > Here is how to reproduce it. > > open a newcash file (or make an new file with common accounts). > file > import > ofx > choose file > click import > At "Select Account" dialog, click "New Account" > In "New Account" dialog (for USD), notice that the Account Type listbox in > the lower left contains no items. > Trying to create an account will result in the error dialog "You must > select an account type". However, you are not able to select one because > the listbox is empty. > > Notice that account name is "USD" and description is "US Dollar". These > values are showing up in the incorrect fields. > Notice also that Security/Currency is correctly populated with USD (US > Dollar). > > This bug totally stops one from importing data for a money market account > and creating that account anew during the import process. > > *Case 2:* > <ACCTTYPE>*anything other than value in case 1 above*</BANKACCTFROM> > > This will cause the new account dialog to fail to properly populate the > Security/Currency field. > > open a newcash file (or make an new file with common accounts). > file > import > ofx > choose file > click import > At "Select Account" dialog, click "New Account" > In "New Account" dialog (for USD), notice that Security/Currency is empty. > It should be populated as in Case 1. > > Notice that account name is "USD" and description is "US Dollar". These > values are showing up in the incorrect fields again. > Notice also that you can manually select a value for Security/Currency, so > this bug is not a show stopper but it is an inconvenience. > > > I have tested this for several hours. I don't guarantee that I have covered > everything or that what I'm reporting is 100% correct. I do not have the > gnucash source code, so I haven't tried to step through this or do anything > more than hand-edit some OFX files and see what results gnucash gives when > I test the OFX import. > > I have used OFX files from several different banks, and I have tested with > different versions of OFX. I'm getting the same results (as reported above) > each time. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel