Transaction balancing

Chris Morgan cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu
Tue Jan 21 22:35:44 CST 2003


I'll see if I can come up with something.  I was going to first add a search 
textbox that will select all entries with the specified text, then start work 
on the automatching.

Chris


On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:29 pm, Benoit Grégoire wrote:
> 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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