oddness with blank payee and missing category

[Łukasz Wojniłowicz]

Hi Jack,

We can forbid importing payees with empty names. Not reproducible bugs are 
hard to fix.

Cheers
Łukasz

Dnia wtorek, 25 lipca 2017 19:22:48 CEST Jack pisze:
> In checking for unused payees, I found I have a blank payee (name="" in
> the xml file, so really blank, no spaces, it happens to be
> id="P000854").  I have no idea how this got created - probably during
> an OFX import years ago, as the oldest transaction for this account
> (from the Payees view) is in 2014, and is an investment transaction
> imported from Merrill Lynch, which as caused me all sorts of issues
> over the years.
> 
>   At some later point, I eventually want to get rid of this payee, as
> it seems all the transactions listing this payee should really not have
> any payee - they are investment transactions and transfers.
> 
> However, in looking at the list, several of the transactions have "***
> UNASSIGNED ***".  It seems these are all transfers between a
> brokerage/checking account and another account (brokerage or checking
> or cash).  In looking carefully at these, they all have a memo.  If I
> remove the memo, the "*** UNASSIGNED ***" disappears from the
> transaction in the Payee view.  I have tried to create a small test KMY
> file, but have so far not been able to reproduce the issue.
> 
> I'm not sure if I want to call it a bug, since I don't think the blank
> payee should exist at all, and I suspect that if the transfer
> transaction were missing a payee, KMM would not complain about it
> missing a category.
> 
> Any thoughts or comments?
> 
> Jack