[Kmymoney-devel] Blank payee

Allan agander93 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 17:16:31 UTC 2014


On 24/10/14 15:27, Jack wrote:
> SQL would certainly work, but probably more effort then directly editing
> the file, as I'd have to save to database, figure out the SQL I need,
> then save back to file.
>
> Question: as investment transactions normally don't have a Payee
> specified, might it be considered a bug that the import created one?
>

There are mentions of Payee in the OFX importer, but there is also a note -
"
// But we only create a payee for non-investment transactions (ipwizard)"

The QIF spec. has - "P"      first line text for transfers/reminders
in the investment section.

Allan



> On 2014.10.23 19:56, allan wrote:
>> SQL?
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>> Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Somehow, during all my OFX adventures, I have managed to create a payee
>> >with a blank name.
>> >
>> >   <PAYEE matchingenabled="1" matchkey="" email="" usingmatchkey="0"
>> >id="P000854" matchignorecase="1" name="" reference="">
>> >    <ADDRESS street="" postcode="" telephone="" city="" state=""/>
>> >   </PAYEE>
>> >
>> >I just disabled matching, which hopefully will prevent any further
>> >transactions assigned to it, but I can't figure out how to deal with
>> >the existing ones.  If I select that payee in the Payees View, I see a
>> >dozen transactions - all buy or sell investment transactions.  If I
>> >click on one of them, it takes me to that transaction in the ledger for
>> >the investment account.  If I right click on that transaction, I do see
>> >"Go to 'InvestAccount (Brokerage)'" but "Go to payee" is not
>> >selectable.  In the brokerage account, there is "Go to 'InvestAccount'"
>> >but "Go to payee" is also not selectable.
>> >
>> >Is there anything I can do, other than manually edit the data file and
>> >remove the 'payee="P00000854"' from every split where it shows up?
>> >
>> >I'll see if I can find any of these transactions in a downloaded OFX
>> >file, or maybe try to download one of them, to see what in the OFX
>> >might have originally caused it.
>> >
>> >As always, thanks for any suggestions.
>> >
>> >Jack
>> >
>> >(I'm also trying to find a good state to make a copy of the data file,
>> >and open in in git head, to see whether the problems with several of
>> >the recently addressed bugs are fixed for my case.)
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