Citibank Visa OFX Problem

[jeffjl.kde at outlook.com]

> thb at net-bembel.de on Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:26:27 +0200
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> On Sunday 17 July 2016 21:45:27 jeffjl.kde at outlook.com wrote:
> 
> > > On 2016.07.17 15:48, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> > > > Apparently Citibank is ingnoring the date range so it downloads
> > > > everything it has which dates back over 6 months from when the card
> > > > was activated.
> > 
> > I have this same problem with my Citi card.  Sometimes it actually uses the
> > dates in the OFX request, but most of the time it returns every single
> > transaction for the last (I think) 2 years. (I've had the card for longer
> > than 2 years.) I tried modifying the OFX request and could not find the
> > magic words to make it work properly.
> > 
> > In my case KMM would take about 2 or 3 minutes importing and trying to match
> > all those transactions, and as I recall, I would usually have to manually
> > fix/delete and/or re-accept the payment transfers.
> > 
> > This won't help you, but I got tired of it and modified my copy of the KMM
> > statement importer to ignore transactions prior to the "Start date of
> > import" in the account's online settings.
> 
> Can you provide me with your patch (against the 4.8 branch is fine) so that I 
> can check if we can add it to KMM? If you want, please use reviewboard 
> (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/ ).
> 
Well, this finally made me switch from the 4.7 to the 4.8 branch. Which let me document my build problem on Windows, thus the new bug report. I also posted my patch for the Citibank problem to the review board. Jeff. 
  		 	   		  
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