[Kmymoney] Re: QIF IMPORT: Fee Category Code

[timothy]

Thanks very much for the information. I will persevere as suggested and
report back.

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On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:16 +0200, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on Friday 22 April 2011 11:50:12 timothy wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > I am running KMM 1.0.5 on KDE 3.5.10.
> > I am writing a program to output QIF from input PDF from my investment
> > web site. I know OFX is better, but for quick and dirty results I am
> > using QIF format.
> 
> Even though OFX is supposed to be the better format of the two, it can have 
> the same problem.
> 
> > The investment Buys have Fees associated with them and I am using the
> > "O" code to show fees as such. These are correctly picked up by KMM, but
> > the Fee category defaults to "_Fees". I have tried the "L" code for my
> > required category which is "Investment Fees:Brokerage", but that is
> > ignored.
> 
> I checked the source and it looks like it used '_Fees' as the default. Once 
> there are transactions in the resp. investment account that reference other 
> fee accounts, it will use those.
> 
> > How do I get KMM to accept a Fee category from an imported QIF file?
> 
> Use the O code is the right way to go. In a first round, live with the default 
> and modify the transactions to use your own category. In follow up imports for 
> that investment account it should use those. YMMV.
> 
>