exporting selected account subtree

[TMaynard]

After posting on this problem, I did find the thread titled "transaction 
transfer"  around Feb 4
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-February/012873.html
which points to  the  project
http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/guidelines.html
I was under the impression that  the existing  export would export  
transactions  (I had the gluttons hope for a tool to also export 
transactions only within specified subtrees).  When I looked at the  
product XML from export , I now see that export currently means only a 
skelton of account definitions apparently for  starting a clean,new COA.
   Well I do look forward to  transaction transfer export (both entire 
COA and also subtrees)
It seems like that ability to package entire subtrees for  export (to 
another COA)  would be the basis for also doing prune and graft within a 
COA ...but I am actually interested only in the simplest form of 
grafting into the destination new account.
   1. it would not be a prune in the originating COA (I refer to 
exporting  not deleting a region)
   2.  in the destination I am only seeking to add the subtree of 
account definitions under its own placeholder account in the destination 
(therefore these would  become  new qualified account names at the 
destination)
  3.  I am mostly  interested in the benefit of  dates,description and 
D/C values . I would be willing direct my labor toward manually creating 
(and editing in) the  proper account labels for each transaction , just 
as one must do that with incoming  bank QIF data.

  The logic for Neil Williams project seems to be more ambitious to give 
a guided assistance to more complicated merging of transactions into 
existing accounts at the destination:
<snip>
"qof_book_merge needs to determine for each object in import if it's:
"the same"              (guids match)
"maybe the same"        (guids don't match but something else matches,
                        like maybe the account name or invoice owner/date)
"new"                   ("clearly" new)


 I would welcome a beta testing  tool to do :
 A:  export (*copy*) subtree from source COA
B:  graft new (under *empty* placeholder) in destination COA.
  
 It seems that the task I am describing is partly provided by the QIF 
import that already exists (not being a programmer looking at the code). 
At some point the incoming bank transactions are assigned unique QUID's 
and dummy or one sided  account labels.
  Far be it from me to prod the timeline that Neil Williams must juggle  
for problem solving that I don't even understand, but  if anyone attends 
to the more restricted agenda that I have described then I look forward 
to beta testing. 
 I would even welcome a blow by blow description of how to safely 
identify&copy the pertinent subtree of the source COA and paste *only* 
under/within  the waiting "placeholder" in the destination XML.
 Like the provision  to turn Right on Red or after stopping, maybe this 
is a maneuver that can be safely performed without getting arrested.       
Thanks  Rusty

Derek Atkins wrote:

>At this point in time there's no way to do that.  Nor is there a way to
>import into an existing CoA.
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>Neil Williams is working on this kind of problem.
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>-derek
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>TMaynard <rustym at main.nc.us> writes:
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>>Hello list,
>>   I new to the enjoyment of gnucash and have a question about exporting
>> transactions specific accounts (from a portion of one chart of accounts)
>>into another chart of accounts.   The export command seems intended to
>>export an entire file or COA  ...not for exporting a partial selection of
>>accounts from a COA.
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>>   In cases where gnucash is used separately for a business and for
>>personal accounts it is simple to setup a placeholder account and
>>subaccounts that capture business related  expenses which occur/flow
>>through the accounts of the personal COA. In this case , the personal COA
>>can contain a subtree of accounts identical to the business COA categories
>>(at least for those  categories that actually occur). It would be
>>preferrable to export only that placeholder subtree of account transactions
>>to be then imported into the business COA. I do not find a tool for
>>exporting just a subtree of accounts  into a file that can be imported into
>>another COA. Is there an undocumented method?
>>
>>Gnu cash has been good, and this would be another plus
>>Rusty
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