Autocomplete help

[John Ralls]

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Rand Batchelder <randfb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have been using gnucash for over a year.
> 
> My usual procedure is to import transactions from my bank and credit card.
> 
> On import the user is presented with a form and I assume to memorize transactions, you have to specify the accounts at this point.  But most of the time I don't.
> 
> After they are imported, I go through them and correct the payee and the accounts, but there doesn't appear to be any auto-complete at this point.
> 
> I thought of doing a batch autocomplete utility. Imagine that you had 200 transactions that were assigned the default imbalance acct.  The utility would search through past transactions and recommend account assignments.  I would probably implement this through a spreadsheet, using direct access to the sqlite file.
> 

We advise that you use the import window to assign the balancing accounts during the import process. If you turn on bayesian matching in preferences, Gnucash will be able to automatically assign your repeat transactions after a few imports.

We advise that you never write to a Gnucash database or file with any program other than Gnucash or one which uses the Gnucash API (and we know of none in the latter category). 

Regards,
John Ralls