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["Stefan Rijnhart \(Therp\)" <962605@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The idea behind partner creation is that the new partner is linked to
the bank account. So the second time a transaction from the same bank
account comes in, it should automatically be recognized and linked to
that same partner. That seems to correspond with your scenario,
Dmitrijs.

This mechanism does indeed create a new partner for every new bank
account that is encountered. I can see that being a hassle.

As the creation of the res.partner.bank is not questioned, and this
model has an obligatory partner_id, I think having the option to work
with a single 'Unknown' partner (not: multiple unknown partners) in the
system is the way to go. It does burden the user with the responsibility
not to modify this partner but to actually assign another partner to the
bank accounts in every case, or we may force this with a record rule.

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Title:
  Option to suppress partner creation

Status in Banking Addons:
  New

Bug description:
  Thank you for great work in this area !

  Can you add in "Default Import Settings for Bank Account" an option
  "Suppress partner creation"?

  I am heavily working on parser for one of polish bank with success.
  Parser assigns a partner when bank account is known. And assigns an
  invoice when amount is equal to bank statement amount. (I didn't
  checked other options yet).

  But when bank account is unknown the module tries to find a partner
  and if it doesn't find it it creates a new partner with new bank
  account coming from bank statement. I know that it is very good
  opportunity to add bank account to OpenERP and it would be done only
  with partner.

  But problem is that partner search procedure is rather weak and in my
  case it is almost impossible to find a partner by name or address. I
  am not able to parse that data correctly because of strange fields
  design by bank. In my case partner name and whole address is placed in
  one field and it is to hard to parse it. I will try but field is
  filled by human and you cannot be sure how to parse it.

  In my case module always creates new partner. But for sure this
  partner already exists (because he got an invoice).

  In my opinion creation of new partner from bank statement is very good
  solution for companies waiting for some payment like donation. But for
  companies waiting for payment of invoices it is big problem to
  recognise after import if partner is duplicated or not.

  So I suggest to make possible to user to decide if he wish to create a
  partner from bank statement or not.

  Another very helpful option for user would be "Create Unknown Partner"
  which would work following way:

  When partner is not found the module creates new partner with name
  "Unknown" and bank account from bank statement. In such case user will
  see in bank statement import (in OpenERP) that bank statement line was
  created with new bank account but module was unsure about Partner. So
  user can simply read description in bank statement reassign partner in
  bank statement to existing partner and reassign bank account to
  existing partner.  Next time all unknown bank statement lines and
  unknown bank accounts will be assigned to the same Unknown partner. It
  will be easy recognisable for user and easy to react for case.

  So user can have a choice:
  1. Suppress  partner creation at all (when bank account is unknown in OpenERP). So user decide to create a partner manually and manually reconcile bank statement lines.
  2. Use "Unknown" partner for creation of new bank account. So user can see creation of new bank account and manually reassign bank account and bank statement line to existing partner.
  3. As it is now. So if module doesn't find partner it creates new user with new bank account.

  I think for any case it should be some indicator for user in case when
  module finds and assigns Partner by name anyway. We are never sure if
  assignment by name is correct. Maybe bank statement line should
  contain boolean field "Check Partner Assignment". Or all assigned
  partners should be reported in Import Log.

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