[moneydance] Anyone written a Moneydance data massager plug-in?

[Jill Lundquist]

I've done stuff exactly like that using the Python interface.  I do it
interactively so I can examine the transactions in some detail before
applying the change to all of them.

       Jill

On 1/4/07, Rick Flower <rickf at ca-flower.com> wrote:
> I find that all too often I'm naughty and download (or import)
> transactions for various banks but don't fully fill out each transaction
> properly at the time causing many transactions to have bogus payee names
> (particularly for ATM/CC purchases) or the wrong category .. Anyway,
> just curious if anyone has tried writing a plug-in that could go in and
> re-write some of the imported purchases (with making a backup of the
> data first) using rules of some sort.. I frequently find that some of my
> banks tag ATM purchases as "PURCHASE" for the payee and then the memo
> field has the name of the company that the purchase was done from (e.g.
> "Safeway...") -- it would be nice to massage these to reflect the
> purchaser properly and discard the "PURCHASE" text since it's not
> helping things.. Another thing that would be nice is to be able to
> re-tag/categorize (whatever you want to call it) a particular payee
> globally in a single account -- e.g. set the category of all "Safeway"
> purchases to "Groceries" or similar.  Anyway, I might try taking a stab
> at this if nobody else has done something similar yet..   Is this
> something others might find of interest beyond just me?
>
> -- Rick
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