Prompt from list of known accounts?

egh / ledger-autosync

Synchronize your ledger-cli files with your bank.

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Prompt from list of known accounts? #29

Closed paxperscientiam closed 6 years ago

paxperscientiam commented 7 years ago

Shalom

Could ledger-autosync -- instead of dying -- prompt for a custom institution name? Or, better yet, make a suggestion from list of institutions from ledger files?

It seems that ledger-autosync follows includes -- is that accurate?

This should be implemented as an option. That is, if the end-user triggers the missing institution exception, they could then choose to execute ledger-autosync with this option turned on.

What do you think?

egh commented 7 years ago

You can specify the name using -a Assets:Bank but I admit that is not the best interface. However I have not added any interactive behavior and I believe that would complicate the ledger-autosync user interface to some extent. Another option would be allowing the ofxclient.ini file to specify the account name when importing from an ofx file (rather than using the ofx protocol.