wish: qif option (info to desc; payee to desc)

[Julien MOTTIN]

wish:

As lots of banks provide their customers with erroneous .qif files, and sometimes fill their "Payee" field with unwanted information (date, amount and/or payement mean) it would be nice to perform massive edit of the records, and in particular to be able move all the payees field to description, so that automatic affect can then correctly set Payee and Category fields.

If needed, I can help providing detailed scenario and/or give a hand for the dev!

BR,
Julien Mottin

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

So it is more an import option than a massive edition which is required.
I will see this.

[Franck (alci)]

I'm marking my bug report as a duplicate of this one. Here was the description (with a link to a (kind of) specification stating that P field might be payee OR description) :

When importing a qif file from my bank, description of the transaction are imported as "Payee" in HomeBank.
When looking at the file, I can see this text as the letter 'P' in the qif format.
These are "Non-investment transaction format", so P stands as Payee/Description, according to http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/1.8/src/import-export/qif-import/file-format.txt

Then I cannot use the information to auto-assign a category latter... (see bug #493162)

A solution would be to let the user choose between Payee or Description when importing a Non-investment transaction from a qif file, as the format does not differanciate between the two.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

the problem would be the M qif field which is mapped to Memo into HomeBank.
What to do if P a M are both filled into the qif file, concatenate (and in what order) ?

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

With this change, you can for every account (and set default into prefs):
- import or ignore Memo
- swap Memo/Payee

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

backported to 5.1.2