Transferring accounts to a new file
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 1 09:57:48 EST 2004
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> My current data file has all records for 2002-2003 and I want a new file
> for 2004. Naively thinking this was simple, I exported the accounts from the
> current file to an xml file on disk, then selected (from the File menu) "New
> File". However, that's when I bumped into a problem: there is no option on
> the File -> Import menu to use the exported accounts.
>
> I must be missing something simple here. How do I create a new file using
> the existing accounts?
Just use the exported accounts __AS__ your new data file.
Note that you wont have any business objects in the new file, it's
really just a basic Chart of Accounts with no other data.
> TIA,
>
> Rich
-derek
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