usage questions
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat May 3 19:07:07 CDT 2003
The Surprises <thesurprises1 at attbi.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I just started using gnucash and have a couple questions I haven't found
> answers to yet. When I import transactions from my checking account,
> some of the accounts are always slightly different each month, like:
Which importer are you using? QIF or OFX?
> PGE 000010101012
> PGE 001012002002
>
> Gnucash doesn't recognize these as equivalent, so I have to manually
> specify the expense account. Is there any way to provide an advanced
> option for searching, so that you can use regular expressions to match
> various accounts?
The 1.8.3 release (due out this weekend) has a bayesian matcher in
the OFX importer; it's not in the QIF importer. If you're using QIF,
well, there isn't much you can do other that manually massage the file
ahead of time. Sorry.
> >From my checking account import, I receive salary, mortgage and school
> loans. What I do now is manually enter the split transaction
> information for each of these after I've imported them. For example,
> opening up the latest paycheck import, then splitting it, and manually
> entering in the tax info, etc. Is there a more automated way of doing
> this?
You can set up a Scheduled Transaction and make sure it executes
before the import; but if the import isn't also a split then it might
not actually match it as a duplicate. So, no, I'm not sure what to
tell you.
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> Jason
-derek
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