Comments on: Simplest “Import Data” User Interface Ever

By: Manoj Bhagat

Manoj Bhagat — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:36:45 +0000

Thanks for your post
But I really do not understand, why Google doesn’t provide simple CSV or Text data import. I manage my financial transactions with multiple brolers and usually have the data in Excel/CSV. I have synchronized the account manually many times but find it really difficult to maintain thereafter,,
A CSV based import/export of transactions will be the best.
I donno why designers at Google cant think of it

Manoj

By: Apurva

Apurva — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:29:04 +0000

someone please respond.

By: Apurva

Apurva — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:28:45 +0000

it just does not work. A csv file would be ideal, but to make this work there should atleast be a example or a sample portfolio paste that works. There is no help. It sucks for now.

By: jay

jay — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:17:29 +0000

This does not work for me. I get: “We could not import a portfolio” I even tried importing from another google account as well as a yahoo one. Tried csv: NO…Tried fiddling with the csv in excel: NO…. Tried the instructions you gave above: NO.
I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong and there’s no help on the google site nor a forum to search.

By: Bridge Financing

Bridge Financing — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:58:34 +0000

I will still stay with Yahoo finance and clearstation. Goliath Google needs to stay within their realm.

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:19:14 +0000

Why doesn’t this import support simple CSV or other delimited formats? Its really aggravating for me. I have some perl scripts I mess around with, and it would be very helpful for moving in and out of gfinance.

It seems to rely on some html markup that is copied and pasted from yahoo, etc. I haven’t been able to get it to work at all with plain text.

Also, whens’ there going to be a cpan api available? =) I am still having to use yahoo for perl…works fine, but could be better obviously.

It’s great to see Google’s employees interacting like this though.

Thanks,
Glen

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:39:12 +0000

I’m trying to use the import now and I’m not seeing what’s so great about it.. it sill requires a lot of intervention, such as it doesn’t seem to pick up the price paid or the date of the transaction. Concerning the date, why can’t I add the date of the transaction in the preview screen? It looks like I’m going to have to add all the share prices then go back and add all the dates of the transactions? I don’t see where I can enter transaction price either in the edit preview screen? I must be missing something, because it seems to fall short in the hype you seem to give this.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:08:37 +0000

Hi i want to implement same technique ,can any body guide me?

By: The Money Maker » Late breaking news

The Money Maker » Late breaking news — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:23:34 +0000

[...] Simplest Import Data User Interface Ever [...]

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:20:49 +0000

Hi Michael.
Send my regards to the entire team. I really mean that this is an inspiring way of making things simple. There has been so much discussion lately about simplicity vs complexity. Don Norman, Joel Spolsky, Matthew Oliphant, Thomas Baekdal all chip in to saying that simpler is not always better.

I think you and your team deserve a price for making simplicity work. Well done job. And unlike other solutions yours is really well executed.