wish: option to choose to import OFX name to payee or memo

[David Tombs]

HomeBank 4.0.4
Ubuntu 9.10 RC, AMD64

When importing transactions for a credit card, typically the NAME field will be a payee and not really the description of the transaction. So, every time I import I have to manually copy the information from the Description field to the Payee field.

It would be good to have an option during import to do NAME -> Payee instead of NAME -> Description.

Thanks!

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Upgrade to v4.2, you can uses automated assigments for that.
Let me know if it suit your needs ?

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Hi,

Unfortunately, I don't think the automated assignment will fix the problem. I would like all of the imported transactions to use NAME -> Payee, whereas automated assignment will only let me select transactions based on keywords. Thanks!

Setting back to confirmed.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Are you importing from QIF or OFX ?

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

QFX.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Maybe I should add an option like the one for memo field.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I think a "Copy Description to Payee" option would be perfect.

[dleigh (david-leighweb)]

Why is this a wishlist level issue? According to the OFX standard <NAME> and <PAYEE> are both to be interpreted as "payee" and there is an explicit <MEMO> field for memos. To me, this is clearly a bug in HomeBank not being compliant with the standard, and it's a real pain.

http://www.ofx.net/DownloadPage/Files/OFX2.1.1.zip

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

@dleight:
this is a wish, because it is.
It's fine to provide ofx specification by at last you should have red it more carefully.

HomeBank uses libofx to import ofx/qfx file, and maybe some gap vs the specification may exists.
As an output of the libofx parsing process we get optional name and/or memo field and this requires to be mapped to HB fields, so it may be an option to the user to select how to map this field, what will exist soon.

BTW: page 210 (and some more) of ofx specification (and also in libofx doc http://libofx.coeus.ca/html/index.html):
 "<NAME> Name of payee or description of transaction"

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

So at last with change, for each account (and this change be set into prefs a default)
- you can choose to import NAME as Payee (default), or Memo
- then MEMO can be
   - ignored
   - append to info
   - append to memo
   - append to payee

[dleigh (david-leighweb)]

Very cool! Thanks!

== David Leigh == <email address hidden> == http://david.leighweb.com == Sent
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On Aug 11, 2016 22:00, "Maxime Doyen" <email address hidden> wrote:

> So at last with change, for each account (and this change be set into
> prefs a default)
> - you can choose to import NAME as Payee (default), or Memo
> - then MEMO can be
> - ignored
> - append to info
> - append to memo
> - append to payee
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462919
>
> Title:
> wish: option to choose to import OFX name to payee or memo
>
> Status in HomeBank:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> HomeBank 4.0.4
> Ubuntu 9.10 RC, AMD64
>
> When importing transactions for a credit card, typically the NAME
> field will be a payee and not really the description of the
> transaction. So, every time I import I have to manually copy the
> information from the Description field to the Payee field.
>
> It would be good to have an option during import to do NAME -> Payee
> instead of NAME -> Description.
>
> Thanks!
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/462919/+subscriptions
>

[dleigh (david-leighweb)]

By the way, what version will this option appear in? I just downloaded 5.1.1 today and I can't find that option.
Thank you very much.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Target is 5.2.
But I'm going to see if I can backport this in 5.0.2

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

backported to 5.1.2

[dleigh (david-leighweb)]

Excellent! I look forward to that soon. Thanks.

== David Leigh == <email address hidden> == http://david.leighweb.com == Sent
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On Nov 20, 2016 06:08, "Maxime Doyen" <email address hidden> wrote:

> backported to 5.1.2
>
> ** Changed in: homebank
> Milestone: 5.2 => 5.1.2
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462919
>
> Title:
> wish: option to choose to import OFX name to payee or memo
>
> Status in HomeBank:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> HomeBank 4.0.4
> Ubuntu 9.10 RC, AMD64
>
> When importing transactions for a credit card, typically the NAME
> field will be a payee and not really the description of the
> transaction. So, every time I import I have to manually copy the
> information from the Description field to the Payee field.
>
> It would be good to have an option during import to do NAME -> Payee
> instead of NAME -> Description.
>
> Thanks!
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/462919/+subscriptions
>

[reginaldo (reginaldo-re)]

Maxime, I just intalled HB 5.1.2 from Ubuntu PPA and this feature is not functional.