Thanks. I found and installed the flathub of 4.1. Dale
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:17 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > Dale, > > ISTR a commit from last fall by Mike Alexander addressing exactly this > issue, though I cannot now find it. > Try GnuCash 3.9 or later. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > > On Aug 3, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The first stage of the import does not appear to be using ACCTID. I was > > only asked once for each security which gnucash account to use though in > a > > few cases there were transactions for the same security in more than one > > TIAA account. Worse the ACCTID information, which includes the contract > > number, is not being displayed at this stage so this is nearly useless. > It > > may be that the next stage matcher uses the ACCTID information, but > because > > its memory was wiped with the upgrade I cannot tell. > > > > gnucash 3.8 is the current version in the package manager. Upgrading > would > > require finding another source for a built package, using a flatpak or > > compiling it myself. I scanned through the release notes and bug reports > > and did not see anything specifically related to this issue. > > > > A possibility is that TIAA has changed something in the qfx data. I did > not > > investigate this possibility. > > > > Dale > > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 9:18 PM David Reiser <dbrei...@icloud.com> wrote: > > > >> It at least uses the <ACCTID>, which is matched via the > >> outside-account-to-gnucash-account list. And imports of multiple TIAA > >> contracts containing multiple instances of the same fund do work > correctly > >> if the links are set up correctly. I’m currently using gnucash 4.1, but > I > >> don’t recall problems with 3.8 specifically. There was one version where > >> changes in the matcher resulted in requests to re-establish links to the > >> various TIAA accounts and funds. > >> > >> I frequently have to undo my choices when I get one of those dialogs > >> because I’m not careful enough at reading the exact language at the top > of > >> the dialog. I haven’t made many changes lately, but I think you’ll get a > >> request to identify a security, but that usually also includes a > statement > >> about which TIAA contract is involved. Then (? hmm, not sure of the > order…) > >> it’ll ask you for a gnucash account to associate with a specific TIAA > >> contract. Somewhere along the way, there’s a question about which > account > >> to associate income from the various contracts and/or funds. Most of > that > >> used to get rolled up inside the TIAA/CREF funds, but now at least one > of > >> our contracts splits out a special fee/credit that is something like the > >> net difference between dividends and fees for several of the funds. > >> > >> If your employer hasn’t done an administrative change that would kick > some > >> extra transactions into your ofx stream (and there appears to be a lot > of > >> pressure from somewhere to do that), then having gnucash ask for > additional > >> matching info is a bit strange. One other possibility is that your > >> employer’s plan has qualified for a better version of the same fund > you’ve > >> had for a while (R3 vs R2 fee levels, higher digit is lower fees). One > >> example is CREF stock R3 (QCSTIX in public symbol world) vs CREF stock > R2 > >> (QCSTPX). > >> > >> Since there have been a few import transaction matcher changes lately, > I’d > >> recommend giving gnucash version 4.1 a try if you can. I’m unfamiliar > with > >> the version availability in the linux prepackaged realm. > >> -- > >> Dave Reiser > >> dbrei...@icloud.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Aug 2, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Dale Alspach <alspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> When importing a .qfx file does the matcher use the tags <BROKERID> > and > >>> <ACCTID>? > >>> > >>> The issue is that I download transactions from TIAA which are from > >> multiple > >>> accounts but are in the same download. There are some mutual funds > which > >>> are held in more than one account. > >>> I recently upgraded to gnucash 3.8. I started to do an import in > gnucash > >>> 3.8 (linux mint 20) and was asked to match a fund to an account but was > >>> only given the cusip number. which refers to a security which could be > in > >>> any one of 3 gnucash accounts. > >>> If I recall correctly older versions of gnucash gave the name of the > fund > >>> and the TIAA contract number. > >>> > >>> Dale > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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