KMM draft bug - KMM does not import all memo data when opening GnuCash file

[Thomas Baumgart]

Patrick,

this is exactly the information we need. Please attach your sample file to the entry.
Please feel free to post it to https://bugs.kde.org/. In the description you can use

  bug 429977

and bugzilla will show a link to that entry when displaying the text. No need to add the
full link. If you have one available, you can add the .kmy file after importing also.

Regards and thanks for your in depth analysis.

Thomas

On Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2021 16:45:47 CET adatchery via KMyMoney wrote:

> I have not posted a bug before so I thought I would send a draft before posting this on https://bugs.kde.org/. If I am missing anything, or this does not make sense, please let me know.
> 
> Patrick
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> KMyMoney does not import all memo data when opening GnuCash file
> 
> SUMMARY
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> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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> 1. Open a GnuCash xml file that contains transactions with a transaction level Memo (a Note in GnuCash)
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> Case a) 2. Do not select “Use transaction notes on non-split transactions” at conversion.
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> Case b) 2. Do select “Use transaction notes on non-split transactions” at conversion.
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> OBSERVED RESULT
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> Case a) In KMyMoney ledgers or reports, notice that for non-split transactions, the GnuCash transaction level Notes data is lost (*1).
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> Case b) In KMyMoney ledgers or reports, notice that for non-split transactions, that GnuCash split level Memo data is lost.
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> For either case, for split transactions, notice that the GnuCash transaction level Note data is lost (*1).
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> EXPECTED RESULT
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> From what I can tell from documentation, this is the expected result, and there is not a code bug.
> 
> An enhancement would be to preserve all note/memo data from the GnuCash file, possibly by merging data.
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> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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> Windows: Not Tested
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> macOS: Not Tested
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> Linux/KDE Plasma: KMyMoney Version 5.1.1 on Linux MX-21_KDE_x64 Wildflower
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> KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
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> KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
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> Qt Version: Qt 5.15.2 (built against 5.15.2)
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> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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> The basic issue is that GnuCash allows split Memo entries in addition to a transaction level Memo for a “non-split” entry, whereas KMM only allows entry of one Memo. For split entries, GnuCash also allows a split entry on the main account in addition to the transaction Memo. The current KMM code looses the extra the data on import (kind-off, per below), with a selection of which data to keep for non-split transactions.
> 
> Interestingly, the GnuCash importer (GNC Plugin) (https://github.com/KDE/kmymoney/blob/master/kmymoney/plugins/gnc/import/mymoneygncreader.cpp) does save all the data. It appears looking at the KMM XML data file that transaction level GnuCash notes are saved (for both split and non-split entries), as a Transaction Memo in the KMM XML file, but this Memo is apparently not used by KMM, which instead uses split level data for its displayed transaction Memos (realizing that even entries shown as “non-split” are stored as split internally in the data file). So all the data is there stored in the file, but some if it can not be seen or edited (that I can see), so is essentially lost.
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> One possible method to retain all data would be to join the data, so the displayed KMM Transaction Memo would be something like “GnuCash-Transaction-Note / GnuCash-split-Memo” if there are both types of note, or just the non-blank note if one is blank. For multi-split entries, the Transaction-Note/ split-Memo conjunction would would also become part of the split line used for display of the Transaction Memo. It would make sense to have a option to choose this, similar to (or in replacement of) “Use transaction notes on non-split transactions”
> 
> Similar to bug 429977 (which is for QIF import)
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429977
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> “Main memo in qif import of splitted transactions get the memo value of the first splitted one instead of none(edit)”
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> GNC Plugin is at:
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> https://github.com/KDE/kmymoney/blob/master/kmymoney/plugins/gnc/import/mymoneygncreader.cpp
> 
> I have created a simple GnuCash xml file to help show which GnuCash memos are getting used in KMM.
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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