[Kmymoney-devel] [Bug 283279] Quicken 2000 QIF investment file imports only one of many security transactions.

[allan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283279





--- Comment #5 from allan <agander93 gmail com>  2011-11-01 21:57:46 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Thank you for your help Allan.
> I believe I have now SOLVED the problem with the Quicken 2000 QIF file!
> 
> a) Quicken 2000 allows users to have Securities without a Ticker Symbol 
> which results in a short !Type:Security item and probably confuses the 
> KMyMoney file parser. The result is that all other !Type:Security are 
> replaced by the one with the short item in the Investment Account 
> Ledger, even though the securities are imported into the 
> Investment->Securities view list. This should be fixed in KMyMoney.
> 
> b) Quicken 2000 has an investment category ReinvInt for reinvesting 
> interest in addition to a ReinvDiv for reinvesting Dividends. This makes 
> a difference in some tax regimes.   KMyMoney only has Reinvesting 
> Dividends so Reinvesting Interest needs to be added to KMyMoney. 
> KMyMoney currently skips all transactions containing ReinvInt categories.
> 
> c) I fixed the above problems by adding a Ticker Symbols to offending 
> Securities and replacing ReinvInt with ReinvDiv in my QIF file.  This is 
> a tedious editing job and therefore the KMyMoney parser needs updating.
> 
> John Blomfield
> 

Part of the KMyMoney functionality is the possibility of updating prices
online, for which a ticker symbol is essential.  For varying reasons, a user
might use different descriptions for the same security, and being able to link
them via a symbol helps considerably,  Also, different institutions sometimes
use different names to describe the same security, even within the same file.

For these reasons, and probably others, the current use of them in KMM is 
fundamental to its working, and is unlikely to change any time soon.  If online
updating is not required, dummy symbols could be used, as long as they are
unique.

The QIF format is very broken, and attempting to import multiple
investments in a file with no !Account lines and just one !Type:Invst
is just not going to work.  Heavy editing is bound to be required.  It is not
unusual for qif files to require some editing when setting up new accounts,
because of the many variations in qif formats.

So far as ReinvInt is concerned, that is probably more of a real issue
and perhaps could be added at some stage.  Presumably, the requirement would be
for them to be treated like ReinvDiv, but with a different
description/category.

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