MEMO not helpful - Githubissues

odnamra commented 6 years ago

The account exporter is somewhat handy, but most people who use it are only doing it so that they can log their transactions into cointracking.info, another portfolio tracker, or for tax purposes. Unfortunately, all of the most useful information in the current export is current being held captive in the MEMO column where it can't easily be sorted, exported, or used in calculations.

For example: "user123 placed an order to sell 0.34116665 open.BTC at 16,847.49989485 USD/open.BTC"

Confining all of that useful information to one cell in a spreadsheet is not at all helpful. It would be much more ideal if each of those pieces of data was in its own column. Also, the fee for the transaction is not being logged, which means that it will be really hard for anyone to crosscheck their balance on the DEX with cointracking.info (or wherever else they track their trades).

It would be way more helpful for traders if the account export adopted an industry standard format for exports.

See attached image (from contracting.info) as an example, but keep in mind that all other exchanges (Binance, Bittrex, etc.) use some variation of this basic structure. account export cointracking

oxarbitrage commented 6 years ago

It was already discussed on telegram and your comment is valuable if you only use it to export trading related operations(only a small part of what bitshares can do). The template will not be able to satisfy all the columns we need to create for all the operations an account can have. Even more, if we are going to add a column for every different field inside every different operation bitshares can handle you will end up with a spreadhsheet of more than 200 columns.

The exporter you are looking for will need to be a reduced one where only trading operations are exported. not the intention of this exporter, the intention is have all the operations made in a period of time for an account.

appreciate the comment but it will not be considered in the short term.

odnamra commented 6 years ago

That's fine. Two people suggested I log the issue, so I did. For what it's worth, ALL exchanges have a trade export since it is incredibly helpful for tracking, taxes, etc., so I really do hope you take this suggestion seriously and implement it someday. It's an obvious missing feature that even the most basic exchanges have available for their users. Thanks for your response.

oxarbitrage commented 6 years ago

I understand your concerns and i think it needs to be done in a separate project or add a checkbox to export in cointracking.info format. it will need some planning as it will not be possible to export all ops into that format as mentioned before, technical reasons.

Still, lets reopen it and i'll see what i can do, don't promise you anything yet :) sorry, i didn't wanted to be rude by just closing it without any reason, the reason i had is valid to me: bitshares is different than other exchanges but still i like to provide tools to be compatible. Your post sounds to me like to aggressive , sounds like "your work is crap" and that's the main reason i closed it. sorry about that, sometimes text gives the wrong impression of the meaning of a message.

This is an open source project and anyone can fork it and extend it for what they want, to be compatible with what they want, the way to approach to it should be collaborative.

I encourage the people you were taking with about this to post here to add more pressure, if they are well known members of the bitshares community its better as all the work i do is for the stakeholders i need to see some popular interest before investing the time on it.

here is a bit of history of how and why this exporter was made:

constant complains by the community that they were not able to get their full history.
open explorer was made connected to a full bitshares node to browse all history, example: http://open-explorer.io/#/accounts/stan
this helps but the community was still wanting to see all that in 1 page or by dates so the exporter was created(http://open-explorer.io/bitshares-account-exporter/)
now it needs to be compatible with cointracking, a "standard" i saw for the first time in telegram after releasing the exporter.

Methodise commented 6 years ago

Thank you so much for this. Here I am to express an urgent need for a cointracking / Her Majesty compliant csv.

I would be very glad to assist in one or more ways.

oxarbitrage commented 6 years ago

for cointracking report: https://github.com/svk31/bitshares-report

oxarbitrage / bitshares-account-exporter

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