[Kmymoney-devel] Manual change of form tab

[aga]

On 16/06/15 20:24, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,

Hi and thanks, I know you're busy.

>
> On Tuesday 16 June 2015 11:38:48 aga wrote:
>
>> @ Thomas please.
>>
>> Is it expected that, when an existing transaction has been selected,
>> changing the form tab doesn't change the tab setting for that
>> transaction, but opens a new transaction?
>
> Yes!

Good, so I can forget that one.

>
>> Initially, I thought that it must be a bug.  On reflection, however, I
>> suspect that its setting reflects the transaction's parameters so needs
>> to be under program control.
>>
>> The need to change the setting was because of an downloaded incorrect
>> setting. (See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349027 - Transaction
>> downloaded as a "transfer" instead of  a "withdrawal"), which I'm
>> looking into.
>
> I saw that conversation about #349027 and wondered how that QIF entry looks
> like. Maybe you can ask for it in the b.k.o entry.
>

I didn't follow up on the QIF aspect as I got the same issue with a CSV 
file, with no category.

I have a fix for the problem now, and I'll put it on the bug report once 
I'm happy with it.

> What I can assume is, that there is payee information and a previous transfer
> to that payee exists in that account which is then used as template for the
> freshly downloaded transaction (part of matching the transaction). Usually,
> there is no category information in the file downloaded from the bank (unless
> someone proves me wrong). Unless there is a bug in the QIF importer ... I
> wrote this stuff so many years ago that I don't remember all the details.

Cheers for now.

Allan