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Exporting data since a certain date to QIF is exporting all data instead #451

Closed FerriteGiant closed 8 years ago

FerriteGiant commented 8 years ago

I'm using version 2.0.4 on a galaxy S4 running Android 5.0.1

codinguser commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the detail report. @rivaldi8 could you look into it?

rivaldi8 commented 8 years ago

Sure!

rivaldi8 commented 8 years ago

I've been doing some testing and verifying the code. All seems to be working correctly. I think you may have had the same misunderstanding I had when I did the first test.

When you specify the date in the export form you are exporting transactions modified (newly added or edited) since that day. This is not the same date as the one specified in the transaction, usually the date you added it.

Are some of your transactions coming from an import? In this case, all these transactions would have as the modified date the date you made the import. As a consequence, an export with a date including the date of the import would include all transactions, independently of de date of each transaction.

FerriteGiant commented 8 years ago

Oh, that would explain it. I imported all my data and then entered in new entries from before the date I imported the data. It was those entries I was trying to get out. Is there no way to have it grab data based on the transaction date instead? On Dec 10, 2015 2:41 PM, "Àlex Magaz Graça" notifications@github.com wrote:

I've been doing some testing and verifying the code. All seems to be working correctly. I think you may have had the same misunderstanding I had when I did the first test.

When you specify the date in the export form you are exporting transactions modified (newly added or edited) since that day. This is not the same date as the one specified in the transaction, usually the date you added it.

Are some of your transactions coming from an import? In this case, all these transactions would have as the modified date the date you made the import. As a consequence, an export with a date including the date of the import would include all transactions, independently of de date of each transaction.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/451#issuecomment-163743624 .

codinguser commented 8 years ago

No sorry, there is no way to export entries based on the posted date. We need to be able to export transactions again if you change some property after having exported them. This means relying on the date when the transaction was last modified.

We may consider adding some description to the form to explain better what the date actually means.

codinguser commented 8 years ago

thanks @rivaldi8

rivaldi8 commented 8 years ago

@yelneerg, you say you just wanted to export the transactions entered after the import. Note that, independently of the date of these transactions, the modified date still follows the one of the imported transactions. So, if you had done the export leaving the default export date in the form, it should had exported the transactions you expected.

FerriteGiant commented 8 years ago

Hmm, it did not seem to do that. I'll do some testing and double check. On Dec 11, 2015 6:00 AM, "Àlex Magaz Graça" notifications@github.com wrote:

@yelneerg https://github.com/yelneerg, you say you just wanted to export the transactions entered after the import. Note that, independently of the date of these transactions, the modified date still follows the one of the imported transactions. So, if you had done the export leaving the default export date in the form, it should had exported the transactions you expected.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/451#issuecomment-163922347 .