[Kmymoney] Problem importing simple CSV

[Allan]

On 11/11/13 20:02, Louis-Philippe Allard wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Allan <agander93 at gmail.com
> <mailto:agander93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Louis-Philippe again
>
>     <snip>
>
>             "Enter debit flag column number".
>             This is very unclear.  I assume KMM is asking which column
>             is containing
>             the debit amounts but why would it ask that if it
>             automatically detected
>             it was column 3??  I tried leaving it blank and entering 3,
>             same result
>
>
>         Ah, yes.  This is a pre-historic problem, to match the version
>         you are using!
>
>         That feature you've stumbled upon was introduced foe a
>         particular user, and > I can't at the moment even remember why
>         it was needed.  However, there are > a few ways of dealing with
>         it.  The first and easiest is just to hit
>         return.  Then to avoid the problem, if you are reasonably au
>         fait with
>         editing, open the file
>         ~/yourid/.kde(4)/share/config/__csvimporterrc, and
>         look for the line
>         "DebitCol=-1".  Then, ensure KMyMoney has been closed, and
>         change the value > from -1 to 0 and save.  All being well, you
>         should not see that again.
>         Thirdly, and advisably, try to get on to a more up-to-date
>         version of KMM.  > Version 4.6.4 has recently been released.
>
>
>     I got that exactly wrong, I'm afraid.  I told you what I had just
>     done in order to test.  You need to do the opposite - change the
>     value from 0 to -1 and save.
>
>     Allan
>
>
> thanks Allan for your replies!  I appreciate the help & effort.
> simply put, can you (assuming I am using the latest KMM version) add
> categories to a CSV when importing it so KMM maps the transactions to
> certain categories? If not, this may be a requested feature to add!

Out of interest, from where will the categories come?  The plugin was 
initially designed to import bank-type statements which, from what I've 
seen, know nothing about the user's KMM categories.

Does not the feature, for a payee to have a pre-assigned category, help 
you to do what I think you want?

Allan