Hardcoded moneyGuru

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  Virgil Dupras April 10th, 2012 @ 04:50 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”
  • Tag changed from “import” to “feature, import”

  That's a good idea. I don't know about date format selection upon ambiguity (it might be a lot of effort for what it's worth), but simply prioritizing the local date format would go a long way. It wouldn't work for all cases, but it would be better than the current hardcoded date format priority.

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  Virgil Dupras April 10th, 2012 @ 04:58 PM

  I just thought of something. The current date swapping scheme isn't optimal because it might be hard to be aware that there was an ambiguity during date parsing. It's easy to let a day/month mess up go unnoticed.

  What if instead of the current swap choices, there was a combobox with all possible date format choices. Most of the time, this combobox would have only one item (because ambiguities are rather rare), but when there's the possibility of an ambiguity, it will be much easier to spot.

  Selecting an item in that combobox wouldn't really trigger a re-parsing (it's not needed) but simply do date swapping like it does now, but to the user, it would look like a new date format is being reapplied to the dates.

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  frog May 1st, 2012 @ 09:55 AM

  That sounds like a much better interface than the date swapping — I'm very likely to know the date format in the file, and also more likely to spot the mis-parsing if the detected format is displayed directly.

  (And I guess this might make it easier to default to using the system localisation settings...?)

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  Virgil Dupras September 14th, 2012 @ 05:34 PM

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  Virgil Dupras September 15th, 2012 @ 06:02 PM

  (from [e60bd1d41fb5]) [#325] Pushed the swap type selector's content and logic down to the core. https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/moneyguru/changeset/e60bd1d41fb5/

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  Virgil Dupras September 15th, 2012 @ 07:57 PM

  (from [b457ed906833]) [#325] pytest-ified import_window_test. https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/moneyguru/changeset/b457ed906833/

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  Virgil Dupras September 16th, 2012 @ 11:29 PM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “fixed”

  (from [741ce24a19ad]) [#325 state:fixed] Changed the label of the 3 date swap items in the import window.

  Instead of just telling which fields they swap, they display the current and if-fixed date formats, thus improving the clarity of the operation. Moreover, the default date format of the system is tried first (unless the parsed format has a native date format) before trying the whole list of date formats.

  That was a lot of work for a seemingly simple feature...
  https://bitbucket.org/hsoft/moneyguru/changeset/741ce24a19ad/