Details column is empty - Auto assignment does not work

Standard QIF format contains [P]Payee field, which by default combines Payee and Description information.
Some banks use this and ignore separate description field.
But Homebank only links [M]Memo field directly to Description.

To overcome this there are 3 ways as far as I can see:
1_ if possible, change at Bank-export side, QIF-settings for separate Payee and Description info
      into [P]Payee and [M]Memo
2_ or, edit QIF-file, copy every [P]Payee info to added [M]Memo field
3_ or, if available other bank-export file type e.g. OFX.

Homebank can only auto-assign with description-field as source.

Exactly same problem here. I'm importing QIF file from Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Any ideas?

Hi,
you can write a little perl script that will take all your qif file and copy the P field in a new M field.

Here is the code

#!/usr/bin/perl
# copy the Payee field and add a Memo Field.

@files=glob("*.qif");

foreach $qif (@files)
{
open(FILE, $qif) || die "failed opening $qif\n";

while (<FILE>)
{
  chomp;
  print "$_\n";
 if ($_ =~ /P(.*)/)
 {
  print "M".$1."\n";
 }
}
close (FILE);
}

If more details needed i can add some.

The ofx from Commonwealth Bank of Australia puts the descriptions into the 'Info' field, not the 'Memo' field. HomeBank should give you the ability to search either fields for classification...

Actually looking at the ofx file, it does say: <MEMO>description here. It is HomeBank that incorrectly categorizes the field and then does not let you search it.