Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-25 Thread davidcousens49
David, The issues with building GC4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 are likely relatively minor as far as I can see, and mainly those that first time builders of GnuCash encounter with getting the dpendencies and build environment setup and enough familiarity with the process to be able to avoid the common

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-25 Thread David Carlson
I almost forgot that there is an issue with release 3.8 where scheduled reinvested dividend transactions and other stock purchase transactions do not correctly apply the share price when the SX runs which I know has been fixed in the 4.something update. Maybe that fix also fixed this issue? On

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-25 Thread David Carlson
The main difference is that I am using release 3.8. At the matching step after I touch add so it won't erase the text in the existing transactions it declares that the four non-zero value dividend transactions are already balanced and it won't let me assign an income account. Then I touch Next

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-25 Thread john
Your example worked fine for me in GnuCash 4.9. I set it to ignore the first 5 rows, set the date field to Date, the description field to Description, and the Amount Field to deposit and ignored the rest. I used Assets:Investment:Brokerage Account for the target account. On import the matcher

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-25 Thread David Carlson
I have created a test csv import file and I can replicate the single line out-of-balance imported transactions. . Reminder, I am still using release 3.8 in Llnux Lite [Ubuntu 20.04]. The test file is pure text, I will quote it to be sure that it gets through. Alas, that adds spurious carriage

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-23 Thread David Carlson
It will be a while before I can find an adequate time window to test and post an example csv with instructions to duplicate the single line transactions that I saw the other day. I still have the csv file and the import configuration so I should be able to do it. In the meantime have a nice

Re: [GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-23 Thread john
> On Dec 22, 2021, at 8:58 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > I am currently running release 3.8 in Linux Lite, which is Ubuntu 20.04 > under a different label. I think that the CSV transaction import has not > been changed, between 3.8 and 4.9. If that is not correct, then some of my > issues

[GNC] Need help importing Investment transactions

2021-12-22 Thread David Carlson
I am currently running release 3.8 in Linux Lite, which is Ubuntu 20.04 under a different label. I think that the CSV transaction import has not been changed, between 3.8 and 4.9. If that is not correct, then some of my issues may be bugs that have been fixed. I have read the current help