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Gnucash for Android mobile companion application.
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Use the actual account name in QIF export #690

Closed alensiljak closed 7 years ago

alensiljak commented 7 years ago

When exporting transactions into QIF, the account name is set to "Imbalance-EUR". The header looks like this

!Account
NImbalance-EUR
^
!Type:Bank

However, I'm looking for something like this:

!Account
NMy Account
DMy Bank
TBank
^
!Type:Bank

Is there any specific reason for using this setting? If not, I'd be happy to implement this change and send a pull request to see how the process of contributions works. I have some other ideas but will discuss separately.

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rivaldi8 commented 7 years ago

Using the account name should be the default behaviour. Have you disabled double entry mode? In that case an imbalance account is created, but there should also be the "My account" account. With the default accounts and settings this should not happen.

I'd first check with the defaults to discard some customisation that may be provoking this. If you believe it's a bug, you may want to check QifExporter. Please, make sure to read the contribution guidelines first.

alensiljak commented 7 years ago

I've created the default accounts and then switched double entry off and on. Was not aware of this effects. Will try a new book with that in mind, thanks.

Also, thank you for pointing the contribution guidelines. I've gone to the Wiki and there is a page for contribution guidelines but it is empty. Would you mind adding the link there and/or removing that page? It was a bit confusing for me as, for whatever reason, I did not think of the contributing.md file. Cheers.

alensiljak commented 7 years ago

Yes, that is correct. When double-accounting is active, the full (path) name of an account is used. Hm, now I have a different problem (of massaging the output .qif file) but at least this issue is resolved. Thanks for the tip!