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Posted by John Pollard on January 4, 2007, 4:28 pm
Please log in for more thread options MikeH wrote:
>> Your original post said the fi didn't have the "QFX
>> export" option: that is what Web Connect is. From that,
>> I assumed you would be doing a Direct download from the
>> "new" fi, not a Web Connect download.
>
> I wasn't clear. I meant to say that the FI in question
> (Washington Mutual) does not have an option to export
> (save to disk) a QFX file. The only thing WaMu does is
> launch Quicken directly via Web Connect. BofA allows you
> to save the QFX content to a file in which case Quicken
> is NOT launched.
>>> BofA, for example, sets the payee on
>>> all bill pay transactions to be "Bill Payer (PC)" and
>>> buries the actual payee in the memo field.
>>
>> That particular problem should be able to be resolved
>> with a Quicken "renaming rule".
>>
>> (I get my online payee names in the payee name field
>> with my downloaded BofA billpay transactions. I use
>> BofA "All Other States".)
>
> I know there are renaming rules and possibly some options
> on the BofA side with regards to formatting. None of
> these things begin to compare with what I can do under my
> own software control.
> By the way. I extracted the OFX Header and <OFX> content
> from the log and it ran OK. It doesn't find any new
> transactions because its already been processed. If I
> modify the <FITID> fields in some of the transactions
> they will attempt to load again and their content looks
> normal.
And if you import that file to a totally different Quicken data
file than it was downloaded to, those transactions will all load
again without modifying the transaction id's.
>> For reasons unknown to me, the OFXlog is a ".dat" file. If
>> not for that, I think you could schedule a Quicken
>> update to run at a frequency of your choice for the
>> dummy file, then have your software pickup the OFXlog
>> from the folder where the dummy Quicken file lived. No
>> additional human time required. But, as I said, I don't
>> know how to get at the data in that OFXLOG.DAT file
>> without having Quicken save it as a ".txt" file first.
> I looked at that DAT file and couldn't make nor tails of
> it.
>> I don't think the ability to "save to a file" is an fi
>> option, I think its a browser and/or Quicken option. I
>> think it should be available for every Web Connect
>> download ... and not for any Direct downloads.
>
> How does the browser play in Web Connect?
One way or the other, the browser is involved. You can open the
browser in Windows, logon and start the download or you can
initiate a web-connect download in Quicken, in which case
Quicken uses a embedded version of Internet Explorer to let you
logon and initiate the download.
Quicken has a Quicken Program Web Connect preference to give you
the option to save the file to disk whenever you do a Web
Connect download. And I don't remember the details, but I think
there is (was?) an IE option that related to saving files and
had an effect on Web Connect downloads.
--
John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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