#186 QIF import asks too many date questions

[Hans Deragon]

I am trying to import accounts from Quicken 2004. When
doing so, I get the following popup:

"The date entry "2/18' 0" read from the file cannot be
interpreted through the current date profile setting of
"%d.%m.%yyyy".
Pressing "Continue" will assign todays date to the
transaction. Pressing "Cancel" will abort the import
operation. You can then restart the import and select a
different QIF profile or create a new one."

Problem is, when I press "Continue", it pop ups again
with a different date. It pop ups for each
transaction, and there are thousands of them.

This pop up should have a "Yes to all" button. It is
not feasable for me to migrate to kmymoney with this
implementation.

I am running the CVS version of FC4.

[Thomas Baumgart]

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You should select the correct date format within the QIF
profile (I expect it to be "%m/%d/%yy" according to your
sample) which better matches the date format found in your
file. This will also import the date as it is and not use
todays date which is actually a quick and dirty way out of
the situation not being able to interpret the date found in
the file.

If we're missing something, please let us know.

[ace jones]

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Right. "Yes to all" would be bad in this situation. The
right thing to do here is just hit "Cancel" and fix the date
format. As Tom says, please use %m/%d/%yy.

[Hans Deragon]

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As design goes, when I build GUIs, and there are error
dialogs showing up, I try to implement the solutions within
the error dialogs. If the date is wrong, why not offer the
option to change the date format within the dialog error,
instead of expecting the user has read the manual from A-Z
and understood all the options before he starts?

My rule when designing GUIs is to provide software that is
so intuitive that I have no need to waste time with the
documentation. The error dialog should explain what the
situation is, why the current date format is wrong and how
to fix it. In other words, in the error dialog is where the
documentation should be, not on a website. And the user
should be able to fix it on the fly, by pressing a button
that opens up the other dialog that permits to change the
format, or maybe by having the changing date format widget
show within the error dialog.