Transaction balancing

[Benoit Grégoire]

On January 21, 2003 03:57 pm, Chris Morgan wrote:
> Does it seem that everyone agrees on the necessity to do string matching on
> imports?  At the most basic level it would be nice to have a text box at
> the bottom of the import window that lets you enter a string to search for.
>  You could use this string to highlight entries in the import list then the
> mass assign them to another account.  That would mostly solve the issues I
> had when I so poorly decided to start importing 3 years of credit card
> transactions.  One extra step would to be to have gnucash "learn" where
> transactions are assigned but this is more complex and probably not as
> necessary.

It already "learns" where transactions are assigned.  The only problem is that 
currently, it only uses what it has learned on the next import.  Derek 
already filed a RFE on this.  I also had to import nearly a year worth of 
transactions recently and ran into this annoying limitation, so you can hope 
for this feature somewhere in the 1.8 series.

However, I am not touching this before 1.8 is released (we are in feature 
freeze), and it will be fairly delicate to implement properly.
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Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/