I think you do understand. I don't see the Payee name displayed
anywhere in the transaction, thus no way to change/remove it. It is
obviously there, since the transaction shows up in the Payee view, and
"go to payee" does appear in the context menu of the transaction in the
ledger view of the investment account.
I can probably get an ofx file (the original was likely direct
connect), and I suppose I could rename that payee to something
completely different, and see if a re-import includes the renamed
payee. However, it does seem that the original issue happened long
ago. I don't think I'd call the file corrupt, as it seems otherwise
internally consistent, it just seems to have a payee assigned for an
investment transaction, which may have once been done, but should no
longer be the case. I probably won't do anything about it until I at
least look into the kmy file to see if I can find any concrete evidence.
On 2016.06.15 08:50, aga wrote:
On 15/06/16 03:05, Jack wrote:
I don't want to delete the payee totally, I want to remove it from
some
buy share transactions, and I don't see it displayed in the ledger
anywhere, either in the investment account, the brokerage account,
and
no explicit mention in the payee display (which is not editable
anyway).
Sorry, but still trying to get my head around this! As I understand
it, when you view the Payees view, you see this payee, and when you
select it, you get a list of the transactions involved. One of those
is an investment and you should see the account name and details,
etc. Where does your payee name appear? If you then double click
that transaction, you go to Ledger view, and can see the security
name and details, which, as I see it, shows the investment activity
type. I don't see anywhere a Payee field.
If you create a new investment transaction, again there is no Payee
field.
Is this the case, and your predicament? Nowhere to edit a payee
field.
If so, then I've no idea how it came to be created.
In your April example, do you have that OFX file to hand to try
reimporting? Or can you re-direct-connect. If you are able to do
this, temporarily remove any existing payee of that name and any
matching.
If that doesn't show it again, I just don't know, and can only think
your file got corrupted. Your only option then would be the old XML
edit edit, as far as I can see. But I didn't tell you that!
Allan
On 2016.06.14 21:57, allan wrote:
I'm not sure I understand so excuse me if I've got it wrong.You
have a
payee you want to delete but can't see how? Why, what happens when
you try? Do you have any matching set'?
Allan
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-------- Original message --------
From: Jack <ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 14/06/2016 23:07 (GMT+00:00)
To: kmymoney-devel@kde.org
Subject: Re: unexpected presence of a payee in an investment
transaction
On 2016.06.14 17:36, aga wrote:
> On 14/06/16 20:59, Jack wrote:
>> I was tracking down a recent payment, and so was looking at the
Payee
>> Veiw for a payee "MetLife". Most of the transactions are plain
>> checks.
>> However, there was one investment transaction. It was for
purchase
>> of a
>> security "METLIFE INC COM" with the funds coming from the
default
>> brokerage account for that investment account. Nowhere in the
>> ledger do
>> I see any mention of the Payee MetLife. (Yes, it's the same
company
>> - I
>> own shares in it, and pay it for insurance premiums - completely
>> unrelated activities.) I have not yet dug into the actual KMY
file,
>> but
>> I'm really curious why there is any payee involved in a "buy
shares"
>> transaction with no fees involved. I believe all the relevant
>> transactions were imported by OFX, either direct connect or file
>> import
>> (libofx, not aqbanking).
>>
>> Any explanations?
> Was it a recent transaction? There was a time when a payee was
> required, but that was removed by popular request.
I actually found several more from 2014, but this one was just from
this April. However, if it matched to the older ones, I can see it
would continue to use the same payee as the older transactions.
What I
still find odd is that I don't see any way in the standard
interface to
remove it. Will I have to manually edit the kmy file?
