bulk operations?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Eric,

Do all of these transactions happen to reside in the same account? Let’s say, all of them are in “Some Account" you want to delete and you want to put them all somewhere else, possibly, “Checking.”

You can accomplish this by deleting the “Some Account” and GnuCash will ask you where you want to move all of its transactions to. (be sure not to refuse to move them or else the transactions will get deleted with the account)

Of course if you don’t want them all going to the same place, there is no other method than one-by-one that I can think of.

The new Transaction Report in this mailing list can certainly help you find them all if they are scattered somehow.

-Adrien

> On May 9, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who's responded to my initial question.
> 
> As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm a Quicken refugee. Tonight, after
> importing transactions from a newish credit card account and starting to
> assign "Unspecified" transactions I find that Quicken had imported these
> transactions and – through their maddening Temp_ account mechanisms? –
> assigned them to a savings account that was closed towards the end of 2007.
> So while I would like to do a "Find..." on transactions in that account
> after 12/2007, then delete them all, it appears that I am going to have to
> delete them one by one.
> 
> A use case.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For lack of a better name.
>> 
>> Suppose I'm in the "Search Results" window resulting from an "Edit >
>> Find..." operation. Is there any way to apply a change to every transaction
>> that appears?
>> 
>> Say that, due to history and multiple credit card accounts, a grocer's
>> Description appears as "HI HO", "hi ho grocery", "hi-ho market", and
>> permutations thereof. Is there any way to standardize the name for
>> everything in the result set besides manually changing each line?
>> 
>> I'd also like to be able to perform bulk operations against
>> "Imbalance-USD" transactions.
>> 
>> If it's not possible through the GUI, how about via issuing SQL statements
>> to a database backend?
>> 
>> Thanks for your patience with these newbie questions.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
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