[Kmymoney] Investment accounts

Sat Aug 27 00:14:15 UTC 2011

No problem, I'm perfectly willing to work with the devs on fixing 
issues. It's just that I was completely ignored last time.
Hopefully we'll get the ball rolling this time

On 08/26/2011 04:17 PM, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> I am a fellow user and I have mapped my Schwab accounts in KMM. It's 
> not clear to me from your email, did you map the brokerage account in 
> KMM to Schwab or the investment account (the one with the buys, sells, 
> dividends ...). I know this was a little confusing to me when I first 
> setup my brokerage accounts. I know at first I renamed them so they 
> made more sense to me and that broke the link between them. That was 5 
> or 6 years ago so I don't know i that's still an issue.
>
> I have struggled with my mapped brokerage accounts for many years in 
> KMM. They have different problems (that is different brokers have 
> different problems). My biggest complaint is that KMM has no way to 
> handle CDs. I find myself manually fixing different types of 
> transactions in KMM from both brokers that I have mapped to KMM. I 
> have submitted requests to fix the OFX problems and to add an 
> investment type for CDs and neither has been worked on to date.
>
> In the defense of the developers, I don't think any of them use 
> Charles Schwab and they have been very busy recently converting KMM 
> from KDE3 to KDE4 and dealing with the bugs that were introduced 
> during the conversion. The person that maintains the OFX part of the 
> code lives in Europe and does not have access to any banks that use 
> OFX (I think OFX is US only). I have worked closely with him on many 
> OFX related issues as well as other issues and as long as I follow 
> through he always fixes the problem. In addition it's possible this 
> is either the fault of the broker (non standard OFX) or ofxlib, which 
> is not the responsibility of KMM. I know one of my problems that was 
> caused by a non standard OFX file was fixed within KMM so it can happen.
>
> In order for them to help solve your problem they will need lots of 
> details and probably a sample OFX file or two. I have not followed 
> through on my earlier requests so at this point I blame myself that 
> they have not been worked on. If you feel ignored just re-post your 
> question, eventually someone will get back to you. I strongly urge you 
> to keep it very positive, I've seen some nasty emails to developers on 
> this list and they don't deserve it (and the person does not get any 
> help). They need our help to solve many of these problems so keep 
> trying until someone responds and then be ready to support the 
> developer. Squeaky wheel...
>
> As far as fixing the code goes, if you can do that I think they would 
> gladly accept your changes once they review them. If they are done 
> well I don't think they will go to waste as long as you post them on 
> the developer mailing list. I'm willing to test them if you send me a 
> patch file. I've written scripts to download and compile from SVN and 
> it looks for patch files and applies them if it finds them so it's 
> easy for me to test patches.
>
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> Brendan
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fry.kun at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's been >4 months and still no reply to my original request. Do
>     KMM developers read this ML?
>     I just tried 4.6.0 and have seen no improvement in handling
>     investment accounts. E.g. there's still no way to enter something
>     as simple as dividend fees...
>
>     Signing up for -developers ML appears restricted & there has been
>     no reaction of any kind to bug filed on SourceForge tracker.
>
>     The only remaining option seems to be to edit the code myself...
>     which of course would only benefit me and nobody else.
>
>     *sigh*
>
>
>
>     On 04/12/2011 10:54 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I'm trying to set up KMM with my Schwab brokerage account
>>     I've added an account (type: Investment) and linked it to the
>>     Schwab OFX (as described at the bottom of
>>     http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings)
>>
>>     Thing is, the Schwab brokerage accounts include info on
>>     investments & cash at the same time. So, if I transfer $100 to an
>>     empty brokerage account (actual transfer, in schwab.com
>>     <http://schwab.com>), the account has $100 to buy securities
>>     with. When I download the OFX into KMM, it shows up as "Buy
>>     Shares" with Price/share: $1.00 and Shares: 100. And it doesn't
>>     look like there's any way to mark it as a transfer.
>>
>>     Furthermore, dividends (not reinvested) show up as Amount:
>>     <actual amount> but Total: $0.00
>>
>>     I'm sure that other people are using some of these features,
>>     which basically means I had set it up wrong.
>>     So let me have it: what's the right way to set it up?
>>
>>
>>     Extra info (who knows, might be relevant):
>>     * I'm using KMM 4.5.2 on KDE 4.6.1 libraries (XFCE)
>>
>>
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